October 2022
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This conference examined next steps for UK energy security and for achieving greater clean energy independence for the UK.
With discussion on current pressures, long-term priorities, and the Government’s energy security strategy, it was a timely opportunity to assess the UK’s future energy mix and capacity to increase domestic supplies, while continuing to decarbonise electricity and power sources and protect consumers against rising energy costs.
It was an opportunity to assess priorities and the future direction of government policy under new political leadership, with energy security reaffirmed as a key priority, and with approaches such as fracking being reconsidered in the drive for great UK energy self-reliance.
Sessions in the agenda looked at:
- the British energy security strategy - the way forward for reducing dependency on imported fossil fuels - accelerating the transition towards a clean energy system
- stakeholder priorities - addressing key challenges - industry role and obligations - energy efficiency - mitigating impact on business and consumers - the future of net-zero policy ambitions
- geopolitical and trade uncertainties - options for improving UK self-sufficiency - the wider UK strategic response
- UK energy mix - the developing policy landscape - the future shape of energy markets - the role of renewables, nuclear, oil, and gas
- achieving UK long-term energy security - priorities for investment, innovation, and commercialisation - international relationships - sector development
- policy - priorities for UK electricity security and electricity market reform
We are pleased to have been able to include keynote sessions with Robert Hewitt, Deputy Director, Electricity Security & Market Reform, BEIS; Dr Marie Claire Brisbois, Senior Lecturer in Energy Policy, Science Policy Research Unit; and Co-Director, the Sussex Energy Group, University of Sussex; and Professor Keith Bell, Holder of the Scottish Power Chair in Future Power Systems, University of Strathclyde; and co-Director, UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC).
The conference was an opportunity for stakeholders to consider the issues alongside key policy officials who attended from the BEIS; CCS; DIT; HM Treasury; NIC; NIRO; DAERA, NI; Department for the Economy, NI; DfT; Department of the Environment, Climate & Communications, Ireland; Department of Finance, NI; the NIC; ORR; The Scottish Government; and the Welsh Government - as well as by parliamentary pass-holders from the House of Lords.
