Heat Seminar: driving strategic heat decarbonisation Speakers

  • Stuart Hallett

    Stuart Hallett

    Urban Energy North Lead, Arup

    Stuart leads Arup’s Urban Energy team for NE England, Scotland & Northern Ireland, bringing together multi-disciplinary services to provide solutions which will deliver tangible decarbonisation across the heat, electricity and transport vectors at speed and scale. Stuart and his team have helped develop the LHEES methodology with the Scottish Government, supported local authorities in delivering their LHEES Strategies, delivered the first Local Area Energy Plans in Scotland (and across the UK) and are currently supporting heat network zoning in priority English cities on behalf of DESNZ.

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    Eddie McAvinchey

    Banking & Investments – Scotland, National Wealth Fund

    Eddie is the Scotland representative of the National Wealth Fund and is based in Edinburgh.  His role covers NWF’s activities across both the public and private sectors in Scotland.    Prior to joining NWF, Eddie was an Executive Director at the Scottish National Investment Bank (where he led on Heat Decarbonisation and Natural Capital) and Head of Corporate Finance at Edinburgh-based merchant bank Noble & Co.  Earlier in his career, he established Clydesdale Bank’s first renewable energy team and its project finance product offering.

  • Helen Melone 2022

    Helen Melone

    Head of Heat & Solar, Scottish Renewables

    Helen Melone is Head of Heat and Solar at Scottish Renewables, covering all aspects of heat and solar policy. Her work involves managing and supporting the development of Scottish Renewables’ policy positions, which aim to create the conditions for the sustainable growth of Scotland’s renewable energy industry and communicating these effectively to key policy and regulatory decision makers.

    Helen has worked in policy for over 7 years and was previously a policy and research officer with Energy Action Scotland, specialising in fuel poverty legislation and fuel poverty research.

    Helen recently completed a Master of Research postgraduate degree at Glasgow Caledonian University, for which she was awarded a distinction for her research on gender and fuel poverty.

  • Kate Mulvaney

    Kate Mulvany

    Principal Consultant, Cornwall Insight

    Kate is a Principal Consultant at Cornwall Insight, an independent energy consultancy firm. Working across heat topics, Cornwall Insight undertakes global research to deliver system level analysis and project specific guidance. With two decades of experience in policy, regulation, and market design, Kate advises on investment, strategy and Net Zero delivery.

  • Stewart Reid

    Stewart Reid

    Head of Future Networks, Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks

    Stewart has worked in the electricity industry since 1983 and has been involved in managing electricity networks across the UK, in a range of roles including: operations management, planning, policy, project management and asset management in the fields of IT and Power Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IET and a Chartered Engineer.

    He is now the Head of Future Networks, within SSEN with the remit of adapting the business to deal with the challenges of de-carbonisation and introducing better ways of managing the electricity network, translating these new ideas into business as usual as part of the transition to Distribution System Operator (DSO) in a Digitised world.

    Key elements of Stewart’s current role include the development and deployment of new technical and market based solutions utilising the principles of flexibility as an alternative to traditional asset based network development.

    Other areas of involvement include network monitoring, active network management, robotics, analytics, modelling, frequency responsive demand, embedded energy storage and activities associated with preparations for the large-scale electrification of transport and heat.

    Within the Energy Networks Associations Stewart chairs the Energy Networks Associations Low Carbon Technologies Group.

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