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Resilience of electricity infrastructure inquiry

Inquiry by the Science and Technology Committee, 22 July 2014 to 21 July 2014. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 21 October 2014: Sarah Rhodes, Head of Energy Resilience, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), Craig Lucas, Head of Engineering, DECC, Andy Shields Head of Security of Electricity Supply, DECC
  • 21 October 2014: Dr Simon Harrison, Chair of the Energy Policy Panel, Institution of Engineering and Technology, and Professor John Loughhead, Royal Academy of Engineering
  • 28 October 2014: Professor Dieter Helm CBE, University of Oxford
  • 28 October 2014: Guy Newey, Head of Policy, OVO Energy, Dr Laurence Barrett, Strategy Project Manager, E.ON UK, and Paul Spence, Director of Strategy and Corporate Affairs, EDF Energy
  • 4 November 2014: Mike Calviou, Director of Transmission Network Service, National Grid, and Tony Glover, Director of Policy, Energy Networks Association (ENA)
  • 4 November 2014: Professor Keith Bell, Scottish Power Professor of Smart Grids, University of Strathclyde, representing the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), Professor David Newbery, Director of the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG), Cambridge University, Research Fellow at Imperial College London, and a Member of the Panel of Technical Experts for DECC on National Grid’s Electricity Capacity Report, and Professor Michael Grubb, Professor of International Energy and Climate Policy, University College London
  • 18 November 2014: Professor Jon Gibbins, Professor of Power Plant Engineering and Carbon Capture, University of Edinburgh, Dr Keith MacLean, Honorary Fellow of Energy Policy, University of Exeter, and Professor William Nuttall, Professor of Energy, Open University
  • 18 November 2014: Dr Nina Skorupska, CEO, Renewable Energy Association, Professor Richard Green, Professor of Sustainable Energy Business, Imperial College London, and Professor Gordon Hughes, Professor of Economics, University of Edinburgh
  • 2 December 2014: Anthony Price, Director, Electricity Storage Network, Dr Charlotte Ramsay, Project Director for NSN Link, National Grid, and Professor Goran Strbac, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London
  • 2 December 2014: Professor Gordon Walker, Co-Director, the DEMAND Centre, Dr Howard Porter, CEO, BEAMA, and Michael Ware, Partner for New Energy and Environment, BDO LLP
  • 9 December 2014: Professor Catherine Mitchell, University of Exeter, and Dr Konstantin Staschus, Secretary-General, European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity
  • 9 December 2014: Matthew Bell, CEO, Committee on Climate Change (CCC), Dr David Clarke, CEO, Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), and Professor Kevin Anderson, representing the Resilient Electricity Networks for Great Britain (RESNET) project, University of Manchester
  • 16 December 2014: Dr John Roberts, CBE, FREng, representing the Royal Academy of Engineering
  • 13 January 2015: Rachel Fletcher, Senior Partner for Markets, Ofgem, and Maxine Frerk, Senior Partner for Smarter Grids & Governance: Distribution, Ofgem
  • 13 January 2015: Dr Robert Gross, Reader in Energy Policy and Technology, Imperial College London, Rupert Darwall, Author of REFORM publication How to Run a Country: Energy Policy and the Return of the State, and Dr John Constable, Director, Renewable Energy Foundation
  • 20 January 2015: Rt Hon Ed Davey MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and Jonathan Mills, Director, Electricity Market Reform, DECC