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Expert Voices
Conversations and thought leadership from the sector's senior practitioners, asking the important questions.
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Future of Utilities - Expert Voices - Lennart Van Walsum - Global Solar Council
Lennart Van Walsum of the Global Solar Council brings a worldwide view to an industry he calls the "solar coaster," one prone to sharp swings as policy and incentives shift from market to market. He charts the UK's fall from more than 30,000 solar jobs to fewer than 2,000 and its current revival on the back of energy security, arguing that no further renewables build-out is viable without storage alongside.
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Future of Utilities - Expert Voices - Sean Layerle
Sean Layerle argues that the technology behind flexibility has stabilised, yet customer adoption, both commercial and residential, remains the sector's real barrier to scale. Speaking with Talking Utilities at Future of Utilities Summit, he explains why the industry's biggest gap right now isn't tech, but hindsight, and why the companies pulling ahead are the ones willing to test, learn, and take the risk.
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Future of Utilities - Expert Voices - Jonathan Morris
Jonathan Morris, head of Tower Hamlets' Future Energy and Water Systems team, argues that local authorities must take an active role in delivering net zero, not simply follow central government direction. Using the borough's own Local Area Energy Plan as a blueprint, he sets out how councils are uniquely placed to bring together utility providers, politicians and residents to ensure the energy transition benefits the public it serves.
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Future of Utilities Summit - Expert Voices - David Watson
At this year's Future of Utilities Summit, Joanne Smalley sat down with David Watson of BFY Group to unpick what's really slowing the shift to energy flexibility. From patchy technology adoption to a lingering trust deficit dating back to their shared British Gas days, Watson argues the industry still has fundamentals to nail before flexibility can go mainstream.
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Future of Utilities Summit - Expert Voices - Kate Mulvany
Kate Mulvany has spent her career at the sharp end of energy change and regulation, and in this conversation we tackle how flexibility is becoming operationally real, how organisation should ride the wave of regulatory change, and what consolidation we can expect to see as the market matures.
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Expert Voice
Future of Utilities Summit - Expert Voice - Freddie Baker
Centrica's Freddie Baker at the Future of Utilities Summit on why renewables lower wholesale prices, battery storage is key, and thinking about tech as a system changes everything.
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Future of Utilities - Expert Voice - Aarth Saraph - United Nations
How the UN are supporting on the energy transition - and bringing innovative energy projects to the developing world
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Future of Utilities Expert Voice - Simon Banham - UK Department of Business and Trade.
In this interview from the Future of Utilities: Energy Transition Summit, Simon Banham from the UK Department of Business and Trade shares his perspective on the UK's role in delivering the energy transition.
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Future of Utilities Expert Voice - Tim van Amstel - EON One
How big utilities are helping to deliver the energy transition by translating big ambition into real world execution.
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Energy Transition Amsterdam 2026: What Six Conversations Told Us
Six on-camera conversations from Future of Utilities in Amsterdam reveal an industry that has converged on why it is transitioning, but not on what to fix first.
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Expert Voice
If You Wanted to Get There, You Wouldn't Start From Here
Industry experts on the six things they would change if they were building the energy system from scratch.