Flexibility and Storage Seminar: unlocking new revenue streams for renewable energy Speakers

Max Collins

Commercial Manager - Grid Services, Statkraft

Max is the commercial manager in the grid services team at Statkraft. Our purpose is to provide innovative grid solution the system to help decarbonise the system. Having spent the early part of his career optimising dispatch of renewable and firming generation in Australia and then in GB he moved to a development role to find longer term solutions to the inefficiencies observed in the real time markets. Currently working on constructing successful Pathfinder projects and developing new storage projects in Scotland.
Simon Gill

Independent Energy Systems Consultant, The Energy Landscape

Simon is a freelance energy system specialist with 13 years’ experience in the energy sector. He spent five years with The Scottish Government providing detailed analysis and advice on a range of challenges including the development of electricity and gas networks, decarbonisation of heat and transport, and the role of carbon capture and storage in reaching net zero. He worked closely with Ministers to support delivery of Scotland’s stretching greenhouse gas emissions targets and he helped develop strong collaborations with regulators and the private sector. He was part of the team who wrote the 2017 Scottish Energy Strategy and the 2020 update to the Scottish Climate Change Plan.
Bob Hull

Managing Director, Riverswan Energy Advisory

Bob Hull is an independent consultant who has previously held senior leadership roles with UK energy regulator Ofgem, National Grid, the UK Government, and consultancy firm KPMG. For over 30 years he has led or advised on many energy and utility business investments, in the UK and worldwide. He has wide commercial and regulatory expertise and is currently focused on energy transition issues including power system flexibility. He recently authored reports on the policy options to enable long duration storage, and on European flexibility markets. He is an independent member of Ofgem’s RIIO-2 Challenge Group and ESO Performance Panel.
Peter Lo

Senior Commercial Advisor and Digital Strategy Director, ITPEnergised

Peter has over 25 years’ experience working across the life cycle of energy. At ITPEnergised he is the Digital Strategy Director developing the agenda and execution of external and internal digital tools to accelerate Net Zero. He was previously Onshore Renewables & Storage Sector Director at ITPEnergised and Director of New Energy for China Light and Power; based in Asia Pacific and tapping into the largest innovation centres in Silicon Valley and Israel to help build an innovation ecosystem within one of the largest privately owned power utilities in Asia. Peter’s background includes delivering results on all aspects of the asset life cycle including senior roles leading M&A, divestment, consenting and development, construction and portfolio asset management. Peter has a unique blend of commercial and technical skills combining Executive Leadership at IMD Business School, an MBA (Distinction) from University of Edinburgh and BEng (Hons) degree from Imperial College London in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Chartered Manager and Chartered Engineer.
Priyanka Mohapatra

Grid and Regulation Manager, ScottishPower Renewables

Priyanka Mohapatra works as Grid and Regulation manager at ScottishPower Renewables. In her role, she focusses on enabling critical system and flexibility services from renewable generators and storage technologies within GB and Ireland.
Priyanka has worked in the field of innovation in her previous roles with SP Energy Networks, OMICRON electronics and Siemens Energy.
She has led and delivered globally innovative projects such as VISOR, FITNESS and Phoenix, enabling roll-out of digital substations, wide area monitoring systems and hybrid compensator technologies in GB and helped LANDSNET, Iceland with full scale digitalisation of Icelandic power networks.
Cameron Oliver

Senior Analyst - Energy Storage, EDF Renewables

Cameron leads the investment analysis for storage assets at EDF Renewables, taking projects through acquisition and final investment decisions. He also shapes the company’s strategy on storage through analysis on commercially optimal decisions. Prior to that he worked for Aurora Energy Research, where he supported the due diligence on multiple storage transactions, and built the company’s battery revenue model.
Dr. Brenda Park

Director and Chief Operating Officer, StorTera

Brenda is Chairperson, Director and COO at StorTera who are developing a promising flow battery technology along with an intelligent control and optimisation platform. She has worked in the renewables industry for almost 20 years and has a PhD in physics based on solar concentrator development. At StorTera she has worked with councils, communities and businesses to deliver innovative energy storage projects with StorTera's small and medium scale lithium ion products.
Jack Presley Abbott

Deputy Director - Energy Systems Management & Security, Ofgem

Jack’s portfolio at Ofgem covers future wholesale market design, transmission & distribution charging reforms and electricity connections. Jack has been a Deputy Director at Ofgem for 4 months, having previously worked in the private sector, focusing on wholesale and trading regulation.
Morag Watson

Director of Policy, Scottish Renewables

Morag is Scottish Renewables’ Director of Policy. Her work involves overseeing Scottish Renewables’ policy function and key projects within Scotland’s leading renewables trade body, working on behalf of 300+ organisations to grow Scotland’s renewable energy sector and sustain its position at the forefront of the global clean energy industry.
Morag has worked in policy for nearly 20 years and was previously a Senior Policy Officer with WWF Scotland, specialising in climate change, sustainable development and sustainability leadership.