Tackling the Energy Crisis
Session Videos and Presentations
NEA Annual Conference
and Exhibition
23-25 January 2023, Birmingham
Opening and Keynote Address
- Adam Scorer, Chief Executive, NEA
- Lord Callanan, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, BEIS
Session 1: Views from the Frontline
- Chair: Danni Barnes, Director of Development and Partnerships, NEA
- Rachel Jones, Chief Executive, Act on Energy
- Mark Thomas, Area Manager Head of Prevention, Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service
- Geraldine O’Connor, Lived experience
- Dominic Watters, Lived experience of fuel poverty, Food Foundation Ambassador
Session 2: Picking up the pieces
- Chair, Matt Copeland, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, NEA
- Josh Buckland, Partner, Flint Global
- Nye Cominetti, Senior Economist, Resolution Foundation
- Rt Hon Caroline Flint, Chair, Committee on Fuel Poverty
Session 3: Supporting the most vulnerable in retail markets after the freeze
- Chair: Peter Smith, Director of Policy and Advocacy, NEA
- Gillian Cooper, Head of Energy, Citizens Advice
- Ben Golding, Director Energy Affordability, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
- Maureen Paul, Deputy Director for Retail Market Policy, Ofgem
- Kevin Shiels, Interim Chief Executive, Northern Ireland Utility Regulator
- Dhara Vyas, Deputy Chief Executive, Energy UK
Session 4: Preventing ill health from cold homes
- Chair: Rob Howard, NEA Trustee and Consultant in Public Health at Leicester City Council
- Bill Purvis, Derbyshire Healthy Home Programme Manager, Derbyshire County Council
- Dr Rose Chard, Fair Future Lead, Energy Systems Catapult
- Emma Bland, Principal Investigator on Smartline and Associate Professor in Practice in Environment, Health and Wellbeing at the University of Exeter
Session 5: Kick-starting a fair and affordable transition to net zero
- Chair: Syed Ahmed, Director, Energy for London
- Juliet Phillips, Senior Policy Adviser, E3G
- Professor Martin Freer, Director, Birmingham Energy Institute, University of Birmingham
- Marcus Shepheard, Senior Analyst, Buildings, Climate Change Committee
- Søren Østergaard Jensen, Adviser, Danish Energy Agency
Breakout A: Transition to Net Zero: How can ECO 4 and ECO+ help fuel-poor householders decarbonise their homes
This is an edited version due to rights permissions, we hope to have the full version made available soon.
- Chair: Maya Fitchett, Policy Analyst, NEA
- Louise Shooter, Policy Manager, Energy UK
- Kirsty Ford, Head of Scheme Delivery, Ovo [Not included in this edited version]
- Mark Dallen, Consortium and Stakeholder Manager, EDF Energy
- James Somerville, Policy and Partnerships Director, Agility Eco
Breakout B: Energy Crisis and Costs: Getting Smarter – update on the smart meter programme, opportunities for helping pre-payment customers and addressing self-disconnection
Due to a problem with sound, this video is not available
- Kat Renton, Head of Regulation, Octopus Energy
- Phillippa Brown, Deputy Director of Specialist Audiences, Smart Energy GB
- Heather Critchlow, Project Development Manager, NEA
Breakout C: Update on the Fishwick project
Due to a problem with sound, this video is not available
- Chair: Lorraine Donaldson, NEA
- Danielle Butler, Senior Research and Policy Officer, National Energy Action
- Colin Timmins, Director of Homes, National Energy Action
- Mark Norcliffe, Contract Manager, Seddon Construction
- Guy Shorrock, Managing Director, Aldrock
Conference round-up
- Claire Durkin, Chair of the Board of Trustees, National Energy Action