Green Hydrogen Seminar Speakers

Simon Gill

Energy Consultant, The Energy Landscape

Simon is a freelance energy system specialist with 14 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.

Margo Maciver

Head of Hydrogen Policy Unit, Scottish Government

Margo leads the Scottish Government’s hydrogen policy unit. Her current responsibilities include hydrogen, geothermal, onshore oil and gas policy development, funding delivery and licensing. Margo has extensive government experience having held a number of policy making, strategy, project management and communications roles in the Scottish Government and UK Government including Head of CCS Policy Unit, and Head of Strategy for the Secretary of State for Scotland. She is a communications professional having worked as a Chief Communications Manager to several Scottish Government Ministers and worked as a journalist prior to entering government.

Alan Mortimer

Development Director UK & EU, Eneus Energy

Alan joined Eneus Energy in 2023 as Director of Development. His role involves identifying, developing and securing large scale clean energy projects including green hydrogen and green ammonia production and export facilities. Prior to Eneus Alan worked at ScottishPower for 22 years with roles including Head of Wind Development where he developed the strategy for, and helped establish a 1,000MW onshore wind portfolio. More recently at Wood as Director of Innovation his role included extending the company’s renewable energy activities in onshore wind, offshore wind (fixed and floating), solar, wave, tidal, hydrogen, heat and transport.

Maggie Olson-Jow

Policy Manager – Offshore and New Technologies, Scottish Renewables

Maggie Olson is the Policy Manager for New Technologies at Scottish Renewables. She focuses on hydrogen, wave & tidal, and INTOG. Our vision is for a Scotland leading the world in renewable energy. The sectors we represent deliver investment, jobs, social benefits, and reduce the carbon emissions which cause climate change. Our members work across all renewable energy technologies, in Scotland, the UK, Europe and around the world.

Maggie’s work as the Policy Manager for Hydrogen, Wave & Tidal, and INTOG 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.

Colin Palmer

Director of Offshore, Scottish Renewables

Colin is Director of Offshore at Scottish Renewables, the representative voice of Scotland’s renewable energy sector. He is responsible for leading the organisation’s work in supporting and enabling the development and built out of Scotland’s world leading fixed and floating offshore wind pipeline, and in helping realise the tremendous wave & tidal energy opportunity Scotland has.

Before joining Scottish Renewables, Colin was Director of Marine at Crown Estate Scotland for a period of 5 years in which his responsibilities included leading the ScotWind and INTOG offshore wind leasing rounds.

Colin has always been passionate about the development and delivery of renewable energy having previously worked at SSE where, amongst other roles, he was the development phase project manager on the Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm project.

He has degrees in marketing and in engineering project management.

Donna Sutherland

Head of Commercial, Veri Energy

Donna has a background in commercial, business development and projects. Donna’s experience includes, as part of a small team, founding EnQuest’s wholly owned subsidiary Veri Energy, delivering successful subsea execution projects and, together with the Northern Producer Decommissioning project team, she won the OEUK Excellence in Decommissioning award in 2022. Donna has extensive experience in securing government funding; managing complex commercial partnerships and through the Veri Energy entity is leading the transformation of the Sullom Voe Terminal in Shetland into Europe’s largest energy hub to provide a range of industrial decarbonisation solutions