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Registration and Coffee |
| 10:00 |
Welcome and Introduction
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| 10:05-11:25 |
Session 1: Discontinuities in global energy markets and drivers
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Chair: Paul Appleby, Head of Energy Economics, BP plc |
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This session will explore some of the recent global discontinuities affecting the energy landscape and how they have shifted expectations and generated uncertainty about future policy and investment. Key global discontinuities to be discussed in this session include the recent major shifts in oil and gas prices, uncertainty caused by geopolitical tensions and climate policy, and emerging evidence of disruptive technological innovation. |
| 10:05 |
Reducing inherent uncertainty in energy policy: can politics help? |
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Ed Davey, Former Secretary of State, DECC
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Price Cycles, Cost Control and the Crisis of Business Models |
| 10:25 |
Prof Jonathan Stern, Chairman, Natural Gas Programme, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
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| 10:45 |
Seb Henbest, Head of EMEA, Bloomberg New Energy Finance |
| 11:05 |
Q&A |
| 11:25 |
Coffee |
| 11:45-13:15 |
Session 2: UK Energy Policy and Investment in an Uncertain World
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Chair: Phil Grant , Partner Baringa Energy Advisory |
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This session will explore how the recent discontinuities in the global energy landscape have impacted UK energy policy and investment in the energy sector. With a new government taking the reins, this session will explore the continuity of UK energy policy and ask, can UK energy policy survive the next change of government? |
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Just how immune are energy networks from policy uncertainty? |
| 11:45 |
Tim Tutton, Independent Consultant
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Future challenges in the electricity market |
| 12:05 |
Jonathan Brearley, Director, Brearley Economics |
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Maximising Economic Recovery from the UKCS – are policies and practices sufficiently aligned ? |
| 12:25 |
Mike Tholen, Economics Director, Oil & Gas UK |
| 12:45 |
Q&A |
| 13:10 |
BIEE 11th Academic Conference 2016 Prof Matthew Leach |
| 13:15-14:15 |
Lunch |
| 14:15-15:20 |
Session 3: Panel Discussion : UK Energy Policy – triumph or travesty ?
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Chair : Tom Clarke, Science Editor, Channel 4 News |
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This session continues the discussion on UK energy policy initiated in Session 2, but in the format of a chaired panel discussion. Each speaker will introduce his/her chosen theme, and then respond to lively and challenging questions from the chair. Conference delegates will be invited to ask questions. |
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Ian Marchant, Chairman, The Wood Group |
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Kirsty Hamilton, Policy Head, Low Carbon Finance Group |
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Baroness Bryony Worthington, Shadow Spokesperson, Energy and Climate Change
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Simon Virley CB, Partner and UK Chair Energy and Natural Resources, KPMG
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| 15:20 |
Tea |
| 15:40 |
Session 4 : Innovation and the path towards decarbonisation
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Chair: Prof Jim Watson , Research Director, UKERC |
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This session will examine the path to decarbonisation from a global perspective, with a particular focus on the role of innovation and technology in context of the shifting expectations and uncertainties faced by the energy sector. |
| 15:40 |
Ian Ellerington, Head of Innovation Delivery, DECC |
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Technology innovation for the future energy system |
| 16:00 |
Chris Laurens, VP Future Energy Technologies, Shell |
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Innovation: A key enabler? Or a distraction from action? |
| 16:20 |
Jo Coleman, Director of Strategy , Energy Technologies Institute |
| 16:40 |
Q&A |
| 17:00 |
Refreshments and Networking |
| 18:00 |
Close |
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