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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 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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Changes cycles are compressing - how does the energy industry keep up?
Three years of Future of Utilities Summit agendas tell a story that goes beyond conference themes. AI has arrived as the sector's defining priority, flexibility has found its commercial footing, and ambition has given way to a focus on delivery.
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AI, Flex and the End of Debate: A Future of Utilities Roundup
The Future of Utilities Summit 2025 marked a turning point — AI is no longer a conversation topic, it's an operational imperative. From flexibility markets to customer debt, the sector is done debating and ready to build.
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Expert Voice
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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Expert Voice
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.