Chair: Andy Hunt, Oldham Council Contributors: Louise Marix Evans, Director, Quantum Strategy and Technology Ltd Will Walker, Programme and Investment Manager – Community Energy, Power to Change Claire Hanratty, CEO, Pure Leapfrog Based on the experience in Oldham and the work of Power to Change and Pure Leapfrog in other parts of the UK, this session will look at the key ingredients for success in developing new models of co-operative and community energy. How can new initiatives get off the ground and grow? What models are used? How are they financed? Andy Hunt has worked in public sector environmental sustainability since 2003 and has experience of many different areas in this field. Andy’s current role is Green Oldham Lead at Oldham Council, developing the authority’s forthcoming Green New Deal Strategy, which will combine environmental action with a focus on building the green economic sector, low carbon and green infrastructure and decarbonising the wider economy. He has extensive experience in particular in the field of community energy, being a director of two community-owned renewable energy co-operatives – Bury Hydro and Greater Manchester Community Renewables. At Oldham he is responsible for the borough’s community energy programme, Generation Oldham, and is technical lead for the seven-partner international COALESCCE project, which aims to build the community energy sector in seven EU partner regions including Greater Manchester. Louise is a Director of Quantum Strategy & Technology, a sustainability consultancy working with public, private, community and university organisations mainly in the North of England. Her work encompasses tackling Climate Change at a strategic and practical level on the journey to a zero carbon future; Climate Resilience and how we respond to inevitable impacts of climate change; supporting organisations to become low and zero carbon and Social Value, how we deliver the wider benefits to society ensuring a just transition. Louise has worked in the community energy sector for over 6 years, both as a director of local Community Benefit Societies and through supporting other groups. In a voluntary capacity, Louise is a director of Pennine Community Power a Community Benefit Society with a 10 kW wind turbine with 60 members invested in a community share offer and 10kW PV at Colden School through grant funding. She is also a director of Community Energy North, working on solar PV projects in Cumbria. Will joined the team in March 2018 and manages Power to Change’s Next Generation Energy Programme. He has ten years’ experience in the sustainable energy field, working in a range of policy and programme management roles, most recently as a senior policy advisor on local energy to the UK government. There, he played a key role in the development and delivery of the UK’s first Community Energy Strategy. He holds a Master’s in Environmental Strategy with a focus on the social impact of community energy. Will also serves as a Director of a London-based community energy project. Claire commenced as CEO of the Leapfrog Group (Pure Leapfrog, Leapfrog Finance and Leapfrog Launchpad) in August 2017 having completed a masters’ in impact investing for biodiversity conservation. Prior to coming to England, Claire was CEO and Managing Director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation from 2011 to March 2016, having earlier been the Foundation’s General Manager. Before joining the Foundation, she spent eight years with Rio Tinto in global strategy and process improvement roles. Claire began her career in finance with BP, in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and Europe. She holds an MBA from INSEAD in France, an MA in International Relations (Environment and Development) from Oxford Brookes University and a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration (First Class Honours) from Victoria University in Wellington. Claire is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an Honorary Research Associate with the Smith School for Enterprise and Environment at Oxford University.
Chair: Andy Hunt, Oldham Council Contributors: Louise Marix Evans, Director, Quantum Strategy and Technology Ltd Will Walker, Programme and Investment Manager – Community Energy, Power to Change Claire Hanratty, CEO, Pure Leapfrog Based on the experience in Oldham and the work of Power to Change and Pure Leapfrog in other parts of the UK, this session will look at the key ingredients for success in developing new models of co-operative and community energy. How can new initiatives get off the ground and grow? What models are used? How are they financed? Andy Hunt has worked in public sector environmental sustainability since 2003 and has experience of many different areas in this field. Andy’s current role is Green Oldham Lead at Oldham Council, developing the authority’s forthcoming Green New Deal Strategy, which will combine environmental action with a focus on building the green economic sector, low carbon and green infrastructure and decarbonising the wider economy. He has extensive experience in particular in the field of community energy, being a director of two community-owned renewable energy co-operatives – Bury Hydro and Greater Manchester Community Renewables. At Oldham he is responsible for the borough’s community energy programme, Generation Oldham, and is technical lead for the seven-partner international COALESCCE project, which aims to build the community energy sector in seven EU partner regions including Greater Manchester. Louise is a Director of Quantum Strategy & Technology, a sustainability consultancy working with public, private, community and university organisations mainly in the North of England. Her work encompasses tackling Climate Change at a strategic and practical level on the journey to a zero carbon future; Climate Resilience and how we respond to inevitable impacts of climate change; supporting organisations to become low and zero carbon and Social Value, how we deliver the wider benefits to society ensuring a just transition. Louise has worked in the community energy sector for over 6 years, both as a director of local Community Benefit Societies and through supporting other groups. In a voluntary capacity, Louise is a director of Pennine Community Power a Community Benefit Society with a 10 kW wind turbine with 60 members invested in a community share offer and 10kW PV at Colden School through grant funding. She is also a director of Community Energy North, working on solar PV projects in Cumbria. Will joined the team in March 2018 and manages Power to Change’s Next Generation Energy Programme. He has ten years’ experience in the sustainable energy field, working in a range of policy and programme management roles, most recently as a senior policy advisor on local energy to the UK government. There, he played a key role in the development and delivery of the UK’s first Community Energy Strategy. He holds a Master’s in Environmental Strategy with a focus on the social impact of community energy. Will also serves as a Director of a London-based community energy project. Claire commenced as CEO of the Leapfrog Group (Pure Leapfrog, Leapfrog Finance and Leapfrog Launchpad) in August 2017 having completed a masters’ in impact investing for biodiversity conservation. Prior to coming to England, Claire was CEO and Managing Director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation from 2011 to March 2016, having earlier been the Foundation’s General Manager. Before joining the Foundation, she spent eight years with Rio Tinto in global strategy and process improvement roles. Claire began her career in finance with BP, in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and Europe. She holds an MBA from INSEAD in France, an MA in International Relations (Environment and Development) from Oxford Brookes University and a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration (First Class Honours) from Victoria University in Wellington. Claire is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an Honorary Research Associate with the Smith School for Enterprise and Environment at Oxford University.