
EVENT
European Power Investment Summit 2025
4 November 2025
08:00 to 17:30 GMT
City of London, UK
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The inaugural Wood Mackenzie European Power Investment Summit takes place on 4 November in London and will provide attendees crucial insights to guide investment strategies in a fast-paced market. The agenda will focus in on uncertainties around market reforms, the need for more reliable government support, power pricing and forecasting, and the complexities of upgrading and preparing the grid to integrate renewables.
Organisations confirmed to attend include:
50Hertz Transmission GmbH | Gordon Management | Photovolt Development Partners GmbH |
ABN Amro Bank N.V | Greenvolt - Energias Renováveis | PST |
Alantra Solar | Gulermak Renewables | Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners |
Alaska Clean Energy Corporation | Haynes and Boone LLP | RaboBank |
AllMerus Energy Ltd | HSBC Bank plc | RES Group |
Arab Bank Europe | Huawei Digital Power | Saipem |
Ares Management | Huawei Technologies (Netherlands) B.V. | Shell |
Barclays Bank PLC | InCommodities | Sitia Investments |
BayernLB | ING Group | SK Energy Europe Limited |
Blue Star Energy Capital | Invest in Denmark | Skyborn Renewables |
bp | InvestInvent AG | SMBC |
Carlyle | JERA Nex bp | Socomec |
Castleton Commodities | JLL | SSE Renewables |
Charged Islands | Korkia | SSEN Transmission |
Citi | Lattis | Standard Chartered |
Coalesce Management Consulting | Lightsource bp | Statkraft |
Cubico Sustainable Investments | LSP Renewables | Subsea7 |
Ecotricity | Macquarie Asset Management | Technical university of denmark |
EDF | Megawatt X | Telis Energy Group |
Eldridge | Metlen Energy & Metals plc | The Green Recuitment Company |
EnBW Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg AG | Mitsui | Thrive Renewables |
Energy UK | Mizuho | Uniper |
Eurlectric | National Energy System Operator (NESO) | United Overseas Bank (UOB) |
European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) | National Grid | Vattenfall |
European Energy | Nature Infrastructure Capital | Wartsila Energy Storage |
ExxonMobil | NHOA Energy | Wood |
EY | Nordic Solar A/S | Wren House Infrastructure |
Field Energy | Norlys Energy Trading A/S | ZEAL |
Francisco Partners | Northern Powergrid Holdings Company | Zurich Resilience Solutions |
Global Infrastructure Partners | Nykredit, Corporate Banking, Energy & Infrastructure |
Topic for discussion will include:
- Geopolitics vs. green deals: navigating the shifting political climate for investing in power and renewables
- Capital flows and bankability- where will renewables investment capital be allocated in 2025?
- Designing energy market reform to accommodate renewables and enable investment
- Power curves ‘101’ - How to read, interpret, and challenge forecasts as an investor
- Battery storage; How do you finance a fundamentally flexible asset?
- Negative prices, positive returns? How investors manage negative power pricing
- How do we achieve enough investment in grid reform, connections, and upgrades?
- What do utilities mean when they talk about grid ‘innovation’?
- Does hybridisation create real value - or just complexity?
- Pricing in resiliency and supply chain risks - what investors need to know
This is your opportunity to hear from our team of power research analysts alongside senior industry leaders as they engage in insightful discussion that explores the key drivers and challenges of the power investment landscape. It is expected to bring together investors, project developers, utilities, and grid operators interested in developing, pricing, financing, buying and selling renewable energy projects across the UK and Europe.
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Registration
All tickets are £200 GBP + 20% UK VAT per person.
For groups of two or more people, contact Laurence Allen Marketing Manager on events@woodmac.com for your discount rate.
Agenda
8:30 AM
GMT
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Registration & refreshments
9:00 AM
GMT
9:00 AM - 9:05 AM
Welcome & opening remarks
Tim Welton
Head of Power & Renewables Research
Wood Mackenzie
9:05 AM
GMT
9:05 AM - 9:30 AM
Wood Mackenzie insight: Geopolitics vs. green deals: navigating the shifting political climate for investing in power and renewables
· Examining the political and social backlash against net zero Europe and the UK, and the potential for renewable subsidy rollbacks.
· How US-China-EU tensions and supply chain security are reshaping access to finance and materials for clean energy.
· How can the power sector structure deals to get ahead of political risk?
Chris Seiple
Vice Chairman, Energy Transition and Power & Renewables
Wood Mackenzie
9:30 AM
GMT
9:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Panel discussion: Capital flows and bankability- where will renewables investment capital be allocated in 2025?
· Will utilities and big developers diversify or double down on renewables?
· What new pricing models or strategies are emerging?
· Future bankability under pressure: what will lenders require?
· What support mechanisms and pools of capital are available for early-stage projects and new technologies?
Cristian Carraretto
Head of Energy Transition
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Annemarie Triller
Director Renewable Energy
BayernLB
Tom van Rijsewijk
Senior Managing Director
Macquarie Asset Management
Zlati Christov
Chief Investment Officer
Jera Nex bp
Xizhou Zhou
Executive Vice President, Head of Power and Renewables
Wood Mackenzie
10:10 AM
GMT
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Presentation: Ofgem Policy & Strategy Overview: Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES)
Gordon Hutcheson
Deputy Director - Low Carbon RAB
Ofgem
10:30 AM
GMT
10:30 AM - 11:10 AM
Networking refreshments
11:10 AM
GMT
11:10 AM - 11:50 AM
Panel discussion: Designing energy market reform to accommodate renewables and enable investment
· Are current market reforms unlocking or blocking renewables deployment in Europe?
· Can phased reform in the EU restore market confidence in renewable projects?
· Are Zonal Markets proposals here to stay, and what are the alternatives?
· Offshore wind under pressure: are government-led mechanisms helping or hindering investment confidence?
Alex DeSouza
General Counsel, EMEA & Global Head of Transactions
Lightsource bp
Asif Rehmanwala
CEO
Ecotricity
André Estermann
European TSO Market Coupling Chair
50 Hertz Transmission GmbH
Vicky O'Connor
Project Development Director
Skyborn Renewables
Adam Berman
Director of Policy and Advocacy
Energy UK
Anthony Belcher
Investment Strategy Manager
NESO
11:50 AM
GMT
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Wood Mackenzie insight: Power curves ‘101’ - How to read, interpret, and challenge forecasts as an investor
Dan Eager
Research Director, Europe Power & Renewables
Wood Mackenzie
Peter Osbaldstone
Research Director, Europe Power
Wood Mackenzie
12:10 PM
GMT
12:10 PM - 12:50 PM
Panel discussion: Negative prices, positive returns? How investors manage negative power pricing
· Are Negative prices here to stay, and what are the main drivers?
· How are developers, banks, and investors pricing in this risk As negative hours rise across Europe
· How can storage exploit negative prices through trading and arbitrage?
· Forecasting Negative Prices - what are the implications for yield analysis and due diligence?
Peer Piske
Managing Director
Alantra Solar
Carol Kort
Executive Director Project Finance
RaboBank
Frederik Murillo‑Lohmann
Head of Power Market Analysis, CCO Area – PPA & Energy Trading
European Energy
Casey Dwyer
Managing Partner
Lattis
Rishab Shrestha
Principal Analyst, Europe Power
Wood Mackenzie
12:50 PM
GMT
12:50 PM - 1:50 PM
Networking Lunch
1:50 PM
GMT
1:50 PM - 2:30 PM
Panel discussion: Battery storage; How do you finance a fundamentally flexible asset?
· Assessing the Long-Term Value of BESS as short-duration assets.
· A deep dive into results and business cases of early projects
· Grid access and regulatory reform: who gets connected, and when?
· Are battery IPPs the next renewable platform play - or a trap?
Rory Mccarthy
Vice President, Head of Power & Renewables Consulting EMEA
Wood Mackenzie
Ugo Iromantu
Director
Standard Chartered
Alexander Labrom
Head of Corporate Development
Field
Neil O'Donovan
President & COO
Blue Star Energy Capital
Raphael van Veen
Director - Energy Sector Coverage - Renewables & Power
ING Bank
Duncan Dale
Vice President, Origination UK & Ireland
Statkraft
2:30 PM
GMT
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Panel discussion: Does hybridisation create real value - or just complexity?
· Co-located vs. standalone: Which is more attractive to investors?
· What are the latest lender requirements to structure bankable hybrid deals?
· How do hybrid and co-located storage strategies perform in markets with volatile or negative pricing?
Adrien Pinsard
Founder & CEO
Telis Energy Group
Alexander Elliott
Associate, Investment Analysis & Strategy
Cubico Sustainable Investments
Willem De Vries
Founder
Charged Islands
Berit Azeri
Senior Investment Manager
Invest in Denmark
Anna Darmani
Principal Analyst, Energy Storage EMEA
Wood Mackenzie
Søren Juel Hansen
Director, Energy Storage
Nordic Solar A/S
3:10 PM
GMT
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Fireside chat: Hithium Energy Storage
Alex Cipolla
Senior Research Analyst, Energy Storage
Wood Mackenzie
Stefan Allwang
Head of European Marketing Group
Hithium
3:30 PM
GMT
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Networking refreshments
4:10 PM
GMT
4:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Panel discussion: How do we achieve enough investment in grid reform, connections, and upgrades?
· What kind of grid will we be connecting to in 2030?
· How are we funding flexibility, and how will flexibility shape how and where money flows?
· Analysis what delays mean for project value as connection queues pile up across Europe
· Is there a role for private capital step in to finance grid upgrades?
Lucy Shaw
Founder and Managing Director
Gordon Management
Savannah Altvater
Head of Distribution & Market Facilitation
Eurelectric
Lisa Woolhouse
Head of Energy Transition
SSEN Transmission
Laurent Segalen
Co-founder
North Atlantic Transmission One Link
Oliver McHugh
Senior EV Charging Research Analyst
Wood Mackenzie
Isabella Borshoff
Senior Strategy Manager
National Grid
4:50 PM
GMT
4:50 PM - 5:30 PM
Panel discussion: Pricing in resiliency and supply chain risks - what investors need to know
· How to price in climate threats like storms and floods, as well as technical outages.
· Managing inflated costs and delayed projects due to supply chain disruption
· Will Europe’s proposed localisation of supply chains reshape investment flows?
Monika Paplaczyk
Chief Investment Officer
Thrive Renewables
Hilkka Komulainen
Global Head of Sustainability and Impact
Quinbrook
Emmanuel Mtika
Global Head of Power Generation
Zurich Resilience Solutions
Eliana Mayall
Senior Regulation Manager
SSE Renewables
Helge Barlen
VP, Head of Transaction Support EMEA Power
Wood Mackenzie
5:30 PM
GMT
5:30 PM - 5:35 PM
Closing remarks
Speakers
Are you interested in speaking at the European Power Investment Summit 2025?
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Sponsors
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Why attend the European Power Investment Summit?
Join us at the inaugural Wood Mackenzie European Power Investment Summit in the City of London on 4 November 2025.
Organisations confirmed to attend include:
50Hertz Transmission GmbH | Gordon Management | Photovolt Development Partners GmbH |
ABN Amro Bank N.V | Greenvolt - Energias Renováveis | PST |
Alantra Solar | Gulermak Renewables | Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners |
Alaska Clean Energy Corporation | Haynes and Boone LLP | RaboBank |
AllMerus Energy Ltd | HSBC Bank plc | RES Group |
Arab Bank Europe | Huawei Digital Power | Saipem |
Ares Management | Huawei Technologies (Netherlands) B.V. | Shell |
Barclays Bank PLC | InCommodities | Sitia Investments |
BayernLB | ING Group | SK Energy Europe Limited |
Blue Star Energy Capital | Invest in Denmark | Skyborn Renewables |
bp | InvestInvent AG | SMBC |
Carlyle | JERA Nex bp | Socomec |
Castleton Commodities | JLL | SSE Renewables |
Charged Islands | Korkia | SSEN Transmission |
Citi | Lattis | Standard Chartered |
Coalesce Management Consulting | Lightsource bp | Statkraft |
Cubico Sustainable Investments | LSP Renewables | Subsea7 |
Ecotricity | Macquarie Asset Management | Technical university of denmark |
EDF | Megawatt X | Telis Energy Group |
Eldridge | Metlen Energy & Metals plc | The Green Recuitment Company |
EnBW Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg AG | Mitsui | Thrive Renewables |
Energy UK | Mizuho | Uniper |
Eurlectric | National Energy System Operator (NESO) | United Overseas Bank (UOB) |
European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) | National Grid | Vattenfall |
European Energy | Nature Infrastructure Capital | Wartsila Energy Storage |
ExxonMobil | NHOA Energy | Wood |
EY | Nordic Solar A/S | Wren House Infrastructure |
Field Energy | Norlys Energy Trading A/S | ZEAL |
Francisco Partners | Northern Powergrid Holdings Company | Zurich Resilience Solutions |
Global Infrastructure Partners | Nykredit, Corporate Banking, Energy & Infrastructure |
The audience will comprise representation from across the power value chain including:
- Solar, Wind, and Storage Developers
- Independent Power Providers
- Utilities
- Grid Transmission and Distribution Operators
- Energy Majors
- Finance and investment: Banks, Pension Funds, Private Equity
A ticket to attend includes:
• Exclusive and inspiring insights from the Wood Mackenzie team of subject matter experts and industry leaders
• Peer to peer networking opportunities where you can make essential connections and have crucial conversations
• Access to the event app: Prepare for the event and gain the most from the programme and venue on the day
• Refreshments and lunches on both days
• Re-cap on the essential information with speaker presentation downloads (where permission has been given) post-conference

Emmanuel Mtika
Global Head of Power Generation
Zurich Resilience Solutions

Berit Azeri
Senior Investment Manager
Invest in Denmark

Tom van Rijsewijk
Senior Managing Director
Macquarie Asset Management

Zlati Christov
Chief Investment Officer
Jera Nex bp
Zlati Christov is the Chief Investment Officer at JERA Nex bp. In his role, Zlati is responsible for investment and portfolio strategy, energy portfolio, M&A and partnerships. Previously, Zlati was Chief Investment Officer at JERA Nex, bringing 20 years’ experience in corporate finance, investment banking, M&A and private equity to JERA Nex’s leadership team. Zlati joined JERA Nex in September 2024 and was responsible for overseeing JERA Nex’ investment strategy for its growing asset portfolio across geographies and technologies as well as leading its M&A and partnerships execution team. Prior to joining JERA Nex, he was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley where he led the renewable energy and energy transition investment banking client coverage in EMEA. Over the course of his career Zlati has worked closely with many of the leading European and international utilities, renewable energy and clean technology companies, including advising JERA on the acquisition of Parkwind in 2023. Zlati has an MBA degree from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and BA degrees in Economics and Business Administration from the American University in Bulgaria.

Søren Juel Hansen
Director, Energy Storage
Nordic Solar A/S

Helge Barlen
VP, Head of Transaction Support EMEA Power
Wood Mackenzie
Helge Barlen currently serves as VP and Head of Transaction Support EMEA at Wood Mackenzie, a role initiated in March 2025, where responsibility includes leading the establishment of the Transaction Support Group to assist transaction and finance professionals. Prior experience includes a position as Senior Principal at AFRY Management Consulting from October 2019 to December 2024, focusing on market analysis and complex asset transactions. An independent consultancy practice was maintained from February 2008 to September 2019, providing management and innovation coaching. Earlier roles include Principal at Pöyry Management Consulting in the energy sector and Director of Business Development for China and Korea at Commerzbank AG, enhancing the bank's real estate presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Helge Barlen holds a Master of Public Economics from Kiel University and a Bachelor of Public Economics and Administration from Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry.

Lisa Woolhouse
Head of Energy Transition
SSEN Transmission
Lisa is Head of Energy Transition at SSEN-Transmission. She graduated from the LSE and went on to complete a PhD in energy economics. She has extensive experience of energy markets, regulation and network development, including cost benefit analysis, financial and economic evaluation, strategic market advice and policy development. Lisa has worked with regulators, developers, OFTOs and supported SSEN-T through a variety of network developments. Lisa is heading development of SSEN-T’s energy transition strategy

Chris Seiple
Vice Chairman, Energy Transition and Power & Renewables
Wood Mackenzie
Chris is the Vice Chairman of Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables group. He is responsible for ensuring thought leadership, advising on the strategic direction of the business, and senior stakeholder engagement and relationship management. Chris brings 30 years of global power industry experience to this role. His career has spanned strategy consulting work for power companies and banks at Cambridge Energy Research Associates (now part of IHS/S&P), debt and equity financing of power-related investments at GE Energy Financial Service and managing a portfolio of power plants owned by EFS. He also led the power organisation at Genscape, where he expanded its real-time power markets monitoring business into analytics and software service businesses through both organic growth and acquisitions. Chris came to Wood Mackenzie through its acquisition of Genscape and now works with our 250 researchers across North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Rishab Shrestha
Principal Analyst, Europe Power
Wood Mackenzie
Rishab is a principal analyst at Wood Mackenzie, focusing on European power and renewables markets. He is currently involved in power dispatch modelling of key European markets. He regularly contributes insights for the European Power & Renewable service and helps clients navigate the energy transition. Rishab has spent the over five years looking into power and renewable market dynamics across the world. He led power modelling efforts and forecasting project economics of various generation technologies. He previously guided solar market research for across the globe for producing databases, reports and insights. Before joining Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, Rishab worked as a solar market analyst at GTM Research & MAKE Consulting. At MAKE, he helped the company kick start its solar research product offerings. He also has experience working with cleantech start-ups in the UK and India. He earned his master’s degree in the Sustainable Energy Futures program at Imperial College London, UK. He is based out of Aarhus, Denmark Office.

Peer Piske
Managing Director
Alantra Solar

Casey Dwyer
Managing Partner
Lattis

Annemarie Triller
Director Renewable Energy
BayernLB

Dan Eager
Research Director, Europe Power & Renewables
Wood Mackenzie
Dan is a specialist in power market investment and dispatch modelling, and a regular contributor to our European market insight reports. He has more than seven years of experience in consulting, covering policy, regulation, market modelling and provision of advisory services to public and private sector participants in the power sector. Dan joined Wood Mackenzie in 2018 from Energy Markets and Regulatory Consultants (EMRC) where he was a managing consultant. Earlier in his career he was senior modeller on a wholesale electricity least-cost dispatch model delivered to the Scottish Government. He has also provided modelling of correlated fuel commodity prices for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (now BEIS).

Monika Paplaczyk
Chief Investment Officer
Thrive Renewables

Alex Cipolla
Senior Research Analyst, Energy Storage
Wood Mackenzie
Alex is a senior analyst on the Wood Mackenzie global energy storage team, focused on the European storage markets. He joined Wood Mackenzie in 2025, bringing more than seven years of experience in the battery field. Earlier in his career, Alex gained experience working in battery startups and founded his own, focused on battery data analytics and modeling. He also served as program director at Volta Foundation, fostering networking and knowledge share in the battery industry.

Alex DeSouza
General Counsel, EMEA & Global Head of Transactions
Lightsource bp

Eliana Mayall
Senior Regulation Manager
SSE Renewables

André Estermann
European TSO Market Coupling Chair
50 Hertz Transmission GmbH
Dr. André Estermann is the European TSO Market Coupling Chair responsible for all Transmission System Operator (TSO) matters in Single Day-Ahead Coupling (SDAC) and Single Intra-Day Coupling (SIDC). He holds a PhD in Economics as well as an MBA. At the German TSO 50Hertz, he leads the international activities in System Operations with more than 20 years of experience in the energy sector.

Anna Darmani
Principal Analyst, Energy Storage EMEA
Wood Mackenzie
Anna is a principal analyst on our global energy storage team, focused on the European, Middle East and African storage markets. She joined Wood Mackenzie in 2021, bringing more than seven years of energy industry experience. Earlier in her career, Anna worked at EIT InnoEnergy, developing innovation and technology roadmaps and contributing to several EU research and advisory projects. She was one of the founding members of the European Battery Alliance.

Neil O'Donovan
President & COO
Blue Star Energy Capital

Savannah Altvater
Head of Distribution & Market Facilitation
Eurelectric

Peter Osbaldstone
Research Director, Europe Power
Wood Mackenzie
Peter is a research director with more than a decade’s experience in European power and renewables markets. Peter joined Wood Mackenzie in 2007 as a senior power markets analyst, before moving into a role as product manager for our European Gas & Power Service. He took up the role of research director in 2015. Before joining the business, Peter was at National Grid in the UK, leading the production of long-term power generation and energy demand analysis. He has also held market forecasting, transmission network planning and commercial roles in the UK gas industry.

Alexander Labrom
Head of Corporate Development
Field
Alex is Head of Corporate Development at Field where he oversees all financing and M&A activities. Prior to joining Field, Alex spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley in energy investment banking, where he advised energy, transition and infrastructure clients on a wide range of M&A and capital raising transactions. Alex holds an M.A. in Modern Languages (French & Russian) from Oxford University.

Adam Berman
Director of Policy and Advocacy
Energy UK
Adam joined Energy UK in March 2022. He leads the organisation’s policy and advocacy work which focusses on accelerating the UK’s journey to Net Zero by enabling a clean energy future. From wind turbines to heat pumps, and hydrogen to EVs, Energy UK’s advocacy programme spans the breadth of low carbon technology. Adam has a background in climate and energy policy in both the UK and EU. Prior to Energy UK, Adam was Policy Director at IETA, an organisation which advocates for robust carbon pricing. He has previous advised Governments through fora such as the UK Government’s Carbon Capture and Storage Council, the Climate Change Committee’s Electricity Design Expert Group, and the European Commission’s Expert Group on Climate Change, and is the trustee of Hope for the Future.

Cristian Carraretto
Head of Energy Transition
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Tim Welton
Head of Power & Renewables Research
Wood Mackenzie
Tim joined the Power and Renewables Research team in 2019, leading the team responsible for Wood Mackenzie’s wind, solar, energy storage and power market research offerings in EMEARC, as part of Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Transition Practice. Tim joined Wood Mackenzie in 2007 as an analyst in the LNG research team, Tim subsequently led the European Gas & Power research team and was responsible for the delivery of regional market analysis feeding into Wood Mackenzie’s suite of gas, power and energy market offerings. Tim has extensive experience in developing new research offerings including LNG corporate analysis and European gas & power markets. From 2016 to 2019, Tim worked in Wood Mackenzie’s consulting team as Regional Consulting Group Manager for EMEARC – with a focus on resourcing, recruitment and driving the development of the regional consulting practice in line with its commercial and strategic goals Prior to joining Woodmac, Tim spent over 4 years at National Grid in a variety of regulatory, commercial and project delivery roles across its gas and electricity transmission businesses. Tim has a first class degree in Economics from the University of Birmingham.

Rory Mccarthy
Vice President, Head of Power & Renewables Consulting EMEA
Wood Mackenzie
Rory leads Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables Consulting team for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. With over 15 years’ experience as an analyst and consultant focused on clean power technologies, Rory is a recognised expert in power system flexibility and energy storage. His career includes roles at Ofgem, the UK energy regulator, and in commercial asset portfolio development at a growth-stage power technology company. Rory advises clients on growth strategy, transactions, commercial due diligence, and market entry. Recent projects include: Portfolio due diligence & valuation – Iberian wind, solar, storage, hydro assets valued at ~$700M Capital raise due diligence – for a BESS integrator’s global expansion including full entity valuation and market assessment. CCGT buy-side due diligence – on assets exceeding $2B in value for both utility and fund investors. Strategic acquisition due diligence – advising a major energy company on the purchase of a global IPP with >15 GW operational capacity and a significant pipeline including networks and renewables manufacturing. BESS revenue optimisation & valuation – customised model build-out to support commercial due diligence across global markets. Emerging market investment fund strategy development – assisting various funds understand and target low carbon opportunities to support Africa’s energy transition. Equity Traded Fund development and management – working with a leading ETF provider to build out a basket of power, renewables, storage and energy transition metals focused funds leading to AUM of ~$450M Corporate strategy development – for a major European renewable IPP, covering opportunity prioritisation, capability mapping, peer review, and recommendations subsequently adopted into core strategy. Rory holds an MSc in Environmental Technology & Energy Policy from Imperial College London and a BSc in Computation from the University of Manchester. He is based in Wood Mackenzie’s Edinburgh office.

Duncan Dale
Vice President, Origination UK & Ireland
Statkraft

Willem De Vries
Founder
Charged Islands

Xizhou Zhou
Executive Vice President, Head of Power and Renewables
Wood Mackenzie
Xizhou Zhou is the Global Head of Power and Renewables at Wood Mackenzie, responsible for the strategic vision, commercial growth, and operational excellence of the Power & Renewables business segment. His leadership is underpinned by two decades of deep industry knowledge, spanning electric power and clean energy markets, with expertise in research and forecasting, asset valuation, market design, policy analysis, and business strategy. By leveraging Wood Mackenzie’s comprehensive power and renewables capabilities, combined with interconnected data and research across the broader energy and natural resources sector, Xizhou and his team provide world-class, integrated solutions to help customers with strategic planning, capital allocation, power trading and energy management, as well as supply chain optimization and procurement. Before joining Wood Mackenzie in 2024, Xizhou was Vice President at S&P Global Commodity Insights, where he successfully led the integration of the power and renewables practices following the IHS Markit merger. Before the merger, he spearheaded the strategic expansion of IHS Markit's research and consulting presence in Asia, establishing new teams in Beijing, Brisbane, Delhi, Penang, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo, driving significant growth of the firm’s gas, power, and renewables business in the region. Xizhou's career also includes positions at Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), Industrial Economics, Inc., and the World Resources Institute. He holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Environmental Management, both from Yale University. He is based in Washington, D.C.

Oliver McHugh
Senior EV Charging Research Analyst
Wood Mackenzie
Oliver leads coverage of the EV charging infrastructure eco-system for global markets. He brings a rigorous approach to research with a focus on clean mobility, modelling and analytics. He is responsible for conducting analyses on the electric vehicle charging market globally, with a focus on North America. He supports research on the competitive market landscape and business models while maintaining relationships with EV charging infrastructure developers, aggregators, utilities, the public sector and other e-mobility stakeholders. Oliver is passionate about providing insights on the E-mobility market through critical assessment of business models and data scrutiny.

Frederik Murillo‑Lohmann
Head of Power Market Analysis, CCO Area – PPA & Energy Trading
European Energy

Ugo Iromantu
Director
Standard Chartered

Asif Rehmanwala
CEO
Ecotricity
Asif is a highly experienced C-Level Executive in the energy market. Asif has been CEO of Ecotricity for over 5 years. Asif has previously worked for Ofgem, UK’s energy regulator, where he spent 3 years. He then spent 10 years at Powergen/E.ON, the World’s largest investor-owned utility (at the time). Ecotricity has been in the UK market for 30 years, supplying 100% green electricity for its B2C and B2B customers and reinvests profits to build and generate renewable energy. Ecotricity is also expanding into the areas of Smart Grids - homes and businesses being hubs for energy. As well as being CEO of Ecotricity Asif was also appointed as CEO of Green Britain Group. The focus of the GBG is at the forefront of the global green industrial revolution. Forward-thinking, innovative, low-carbon – our businesses are pioneers in the new green economy. In addition to Ecotricity, companies in GBG include: Skydiamond, Ecotalk, Britwind, Devils Kitchen and Forest Green Rovers (the Worlds greenest football club where Asif is Vice-Chairman). The companies in the group are fighting the climate crisis by offering consumers and businesses another way of doing things in the industries that create the most atmospheric carbon – energy, transport and food.

Vicky O'Connor
Project Development Director
Skyborn Renewables
Vicky has worked in wind energy project development and advisory for over 14 years across approximately 17GW of offshore and 12GW of onshore projects. Skyborn Renewables Offshore Solutions is the flagship offshore wind platform of New York based infrastructure fund, Global Infrastructure Partners. At Skyborn Vicky is leading strategic market entry into two European markets through partnership. From a broad experience base, Vicky’s key strength is in understanding the technical and commercial aspects of risk and opportunity from multiple perspectives – acting as a bridge or translator between technical and commercial parties, to facilitate engagement, address challenges and develop strategy. Vicky holds a BSc (Hons) in Physics, BEng (Hons) in Sustainable Energy Engineering and Executive Diploma in Strategy and Innovation from Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.

Lucy Shaw
Founder and Managing Director
Gordon Management
Lucy Shaw has spent over a decade supporting governments and investors to deliver investments in energy and infrastructure projects. She is currently the Founder and Managing Director of Gordon Management, an investment advisory firm focused on energy and infrastructure projects in the US, Europe, and Africa. She is also a writer, focusing on the energy transition, and her work has been published in the Economist, the Financial Times, and Infrastructure Investor. Lucy previously worked as an infrastructure investor at Blackstone, Actis and the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank. She also worked in international development at the United Nations in Ethiopia and CrossBoundary in Kenya. She started her career in business at the Boston Consulting Group in Australia, following a subsurface engineering role at ExxonMobil. She studied a Master in Business Administration on a Fulbright scholarship at Harvard Business School, where she graduated as a Baker Scholar in the top 5% of the class. She also studied a Master in Public Administration majoring in International Development at Harvard Kennedy School, and holds a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering (Honours) from the University of Melbourne.

Gordon Hutcheson
Deputy Director - Low Carbon RAB
Ofgem

Adrien Pinsard
Founder & CEO
Telis Energy Group
“Adrien Pinsard: Telis Energy Group - founder and CEO Adrien Pinsard has a 19-year track record of renewable energy investment and development. Prior to founding Telis, Adrien was Interim CEO of the Macquarie Group European solar energy developer, Cero Generation Adrien was a partner at Platina Energy Partners where he deployed €1bn in renewables.”

Alexander Elliott
Associate, Investment Analysis & Strategy
Cubico Sustainable Investments

Carol Kort
Executive Director Project Finance
RaboBank

Laurent Segalen
Co-founder
North Atlantic Transmission One Link

Stefan Allwang
Head of European Marketing Group
Hithium

Hilkka Komulainen
Global Head of Sustainability and Impact
Quinbrook

Raphael van Veen
Director - Energy Sector Coverage - Renewables & Power
ING Bank

Anthony Belcher
Investment Strategy Manager
NESO

Isabella Borshoff
Senior Strategy Manager
National Grid