Sustainable UK Cities: Bristol 4th November
Agenda
2.30pm Registration
3.00pm Introduction and welcome
- David Green, Chief Executive, UK BCSE
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3.05pm The Sustainable Energy Challenge in
Bristol
Cllr Helen Holland, Leader Bristol City Council
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3.15pm The Energy Challenge
Andrew Eddy, Head of Communications, Shell UK
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3.25pm Q&A session
3.40pm The role of Local Authorities
David Green, Chief Executive, UK BCSE
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4.00pm Case Study: Bristol Environmental Technologies
and Services (BETs)
Martin Alder, Executive Board Member, BETs, and Managing Director of Wind
Direct Ltd
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4.20pm Panel discussion and Q&A
Chaired by David Green, Chief Executive, UK BCSE
- Simon Roberts, Chief Executive, Centre for Sustainable Energy
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- Susan Warren, Head of Sustainable Cities, Forum for the Future
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- Sarah Morris, Assistant Regional Director, CBI South West
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- Peter Kydd, Director of Planning and Environment, Parsons Brinckerhoff
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- Martin Alder, Executive Board Member BETs and Managing Director, Wind Direct
Ltd
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5.00pm Drinks reception
David Green OBE, FRSA FiE
Chief Executive, UKBCSE
David is Chief Executive of the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy (UKBCSE) that he created in 2002, building on his past work as the Director of the Combined Heat and Power Association.
He was appointed by the Mayor of London to Chair the London Energy Partnership. He is a member of the UK Government delegations to the World Summit on Sustainable Development and in 2004 took part in the International Conference on Renewable Energy. He was a Commissioner for the LGA Climate Change Commission, which released its final report in December 2007. He is also a member of the high level Ministerial Advisory Group on Sustainable Communities. David Green was awarded the MBE in 1986 and the OBE in 2003.
Andrew Eddy
Head of Communications, Shell UK
Andrew was appointed Head of UK Communications in January 2007 with responsibility for leading the communications strategy in the UK both internally and externally. Andrew is on the Board of Shell UK Holdings, Chairman of the CBI London Council, Chairman of the South Bank Employers Group and on the Board of London Sustainability Exchange. Until the end of 2006 Andrew was Director of the London Office where he was accountable for Shell Centre and other properties in the London area. He also represented Shell in London in various forms.
Andrew joined Shell in 1974 in the Chemicals business where he has spent much of his career. He worked in marketing and business development in the UK, then business planning in Colombia and Chemicals general management in Zambia.
Councillor Helen Holland
Leader of Bristol City Council
Cllr Helen Holland has been Leader of Bristol City Council since May 2007. She is Leader of the Labour Group on the City Council and at the South West Regional Assembly where she is the Deputy Chair. She chairs the West of England Partnership, which is driving the delivery of a twenty-year vision for sustainable growth and prosperity for the city-region.
Her current portfolio includes the Council’s vision and strategic priorities, partnerships and promoting Bristol’s interests at wider levels. She is the lead for Hengrove Park, a major regeneration programme crucial to the transformation of South Bristol. Previously, her longstanding commitment to regeneration has seen her chairing the Bristol Regeneration Partnership and sitting on the board of the South West Regional Development Agency. Cllr Holland represents the Whitchurch Park ward in South Bristol.
Simon Roberts
Chief Executive, Centre for Sustainable Energy
Simon has been helping people, organisations and policy-makers to develop effective responses to the threat of climate change and the misery of cold homes for more than 20 years. He became Chief Executive of Bristol-based national charity, the Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE), in 2002. He had enjoyed two previous spells at CSE punctuated by five years running Friends of the Earth’s national energy campaign and a senior management role at the leading European ethical bank, Triodos Bank.
He is a member of: the Government’s Renewables Advisory Board (where he leads its community engagement workstream); the BERR English Regions Energy Policy Group; the BERR/Defra Biomass Implementation Advisory Group; the Advisory Board for the ESRC Centre on Research on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE), and; the board of Regen SW, the sustainable energy agency for the South West. He is also chair of Energy Advice South West Ltd, a new charity-owned joint venture that just started delivering the Energy Saving Trust Advice Centre across the SW region.
Susan Warren
Head of Sustainable Cities, Forum for the Future
Susan heads up Forum’s Bristol project, which aims to support the development of Bristol as the most sustainable city-region in the UK.
Susan has extensive experience in the environmental and community sectors. She has worked primarily in voluntary organisations at a strategic and operational level, to deliver projects in the fields of: access and recreation; biodiversity; health and well-being; community regeneration; education; art and heritage. Her most recent post was as Deputy Director of Groundwork North Northamptonshire, leading the organisation’s work on green infrastructure, community engagement, environmental management systems, fundraising and partnership development. She is also a Non-Executive Director of the National Forest Company, a large-scale environmental initiative to reforest 200 square miles of former coalfield land in the Midlands. Susan has an MA in Geography and MSc in Environmental Science.
Sarah Morris
Assistant Regional Director, CBI South West
Sarah has been Assistant Director for the CBI in the South West for the past five years. Prior to that, she was Business Development Manager for a health and safety charity. She has responsibility for all policy areas in the South West, including management of the CBI South West Environment Committee, which is a forum for business leaders who wish to develop and exchange best practice on environmental issues.
Peter Kydd
Director of Planning and Environment, Parsons Brinckerhoff
Peter Kydd is Director of Planning and Environment at Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), a consulting practice with 12,000 employees worldwide specialising in consulting, engineering, architectural and environmental services for the energy, transport, communities and water markets. A chartered civil engineer, Peter is the firm's senior director in Bristol and has responsibility for the firm's strategic consulting practice across the firm's UK, Europe and Africa region. He is currently leading PB's work on the Severn Tidal Energy Feasibility Study for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, SWRDA and Welsh Assembly Government.
Martin Adler, BEng DMS MCIWEM
MCIMgt MICD AMIMechE
Executive Board Member, BETs, and Managing Director of Wind Direct Ltd
Renewable energy is Martin’s main career interest and expertise. At university he studied wind as part of his thesis and joined the water industry in 1979 (Wessex) where he became expert in anaerobic digestion and bio-gas generation. From 1992 he was part of a small team that put together the UK Waste joint venture, where he specialised in technology transfer and in particular in Waste to Energy technology. In 1995 he moved from the water industry to co-found The Renewable Energy Company, the first supplier dedicated to renewable electricity. In 1999 he became Operations Director of Cinergy Renewables and concentrated on developing contracts for new renewable generation under the RO.
Martin has his own consultancy company, Optimum Energy Ltd, which specialises in renewable energy contracts, trading and renewable market economics. OEL is a partner with Wind Prospect and Econnect in the Wind Direct joint venture. Wind Direct Ltd is a developer, owner and operator of on-site wind energy generation. Martin is currently the Managing Director.
In addition, Martin is Vice-Chairman of the Association of Electricity Producers and Chairman of their Renewable Energy Committee. He represents the AEP as the UK member of the Eurelectric workgroup for Renewables and Embedded Generation. He is also a Trustee and Chairman of the World Renewable Energy Network.
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