Alastair Campbell will lead the line up of presenters at this year’s Energy Event on 11-12 September at the NEC, Birmingham. Against a backdrop of the Electricity Market Reform, the Blair government’s former director of communications and strategy will take a look at the issues around taking and communicating difficult but necessary policy change in a time when tough decisions need to be made.
Addressing some of the underlying problems legislators face in the UK – investing in and developing energy generation infrastructure in the face of NIMBYism and a reluctance to change or accept increased costs necessary to fund greener energy, Campbell will also look at the role the media plays in influencing how people perceive such issues and how utilities, developers, and government can better communicate with, and achieve buy-in from the public through this and other channels.
Speaking at The Energy Event are: Professor Brian Cox, acclaimed particle physicist, television presenter and part of the team that works at CERN, Geneva on The ATLAS Experiment; Philip Lowe, director general – Energy, European Commission and James Woudhuysen, professor of forecasting and innovation at De Montfort University. ITV News special correspondent, Daisy McAndrew will chair one of the four theatres that form the ‘knowledge’ core of the show.
Other speakers include:
Robert Sorrell, vice president of public partnerships, BP
Chris Train, network operations director, National Grid
Mike Hogg, managing director, DONG Energy Sales
Linda Burgess, UK energy purchasing manager, St Gobain
Andrew Bainbridge, chairman, Major Energy Users’ Council (MEUC)
Volker Beckers, chief executive officer, RWE npower
Mikael Lundin, chief executive officer, Nord Pool Spot
The Energy Event will sit alongside two more environment events: The Renewables Event – an event showcasing renewable energy technologies for onsite energy generation – and RWM in partnership with CIWM.
To register for your free place or for more information about The Energy Event, please visit www.theenergyevent.com/pr, quoting priority code EPR 22.