Presentations
Biographies of the speakers and seminar facilitators are provided below.
Conference Chair: Andy Stephenson - Chair of the National Carbon Action Network
Presentation Title: Chair's Welcome
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Andy Stephenson is the Current National Chair of CAN. Taking over in 2009, he was previously Chair for the North East Region for three years. In his day job at Durham County Council, he is their Low Carbon Strategy Officer whose role is to work across the Council and its Partners to ensure that the County meets its Carbon Reduction targets. He has been employed in many roles across the energy industry including Building Services Engineer, EEAC Centre Manager, Energy Manager and HECA officer giving him a wide range of knowledge in the industry and a viewpoint from strategic issues to installation. He is also a fully qualified Plumber though he only does work for family and friends these days.
Peter Chisnall, Partnership Development Manager, Climate Energy
Presentation Title: Sponsor's Address: Introduction to Passivhaus
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Peter is Partnership Development Manager at Climate Energy.
A Certified Passive House Consultant, Chartered Environmentalist and Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner, a Member of CIEH, CIWM, CIWEM, IOSH, CIBSE, EI, IEMA and IOA.
With Climate Energy for three years, originally managing the EST East of England advice centre but now concentrating on the CAN sponsorship and working on projects with Local Authorities and Housing Associations.
Previously with Braintree District Council for 19 years, as an Environmental Health Officer and seven years as Head of Waste Management and Resource Efficiency. Was responsible for the innovative Council Tax cashback scheme for households installing cavity wall insulation.
Involved with HECA from the outset and in 2004 was awarded the Eastern HECA Officer of the Year at the UK HECA conference for his work with Braintree, Essex and East of England local authorities.
Councillor Simon Galton
Presentation Title: Sustainable development in planning/housing
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Simon has been a Councillor in local government for 25 years. He has been a District Councillor since 1986 and was subsequently elected in 1989 to be County Councillor for the Launde Division.
In that time he has served in both executive and opposition roles including as a member of a joint Cabinet at the County Council in 1999 as lead member for Education, and was leader of Harborough Council 2006 - 2007. He is currently Chairman of Overview and Scrutiny, and leader of the Opposition on Leicestershire County Council and leader of the opposition on Harborough District Council. Alongside this he is Chair of the Strategic Migration Board of the East Midlands Councils since May 2010.
Simon's primary interests include Housing and Planning, he has been on the planning committee at Harborough for many years, he was one of the founding members of CASCET the eco-town pressure group and in 2011 was elected to the LGA Environment & Housing Board and is the Lib Dem planning spokesman for the board.
His long service and extensive knowledge is recognised at local level and beyond.
Gareth Baynham-Hughes - Deputy Director, Head of Secretariat, Hills Fuel Poverty Review
Presentation Title: Hills Fuel Poverty Review
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Gareth Baynham-Hughes is the head of the Hills Fuel Poverty Review secretariat. In this role he co-ordinates the work of the review, leading a small team of analysts (including economists and statisticians) and policy-makers, and supporting John Hills in his work. While being made up of DECC officials, the review team works independently of the rest of the Department. The review was initiated in spring 2011 and is due to conclude in early 2012. Gareth has had a variety of other roles within mainstream DECC. Most recently he prepared DECC's first Departmental carbon budget and also spearheaded the department's very successful efforts to reduce carbon emissions from its own buildings.
Dr Brenda Boardman MBE FEI, Emeritus Fellow of the University of Oxford
Presentation Title: Fixing Fuel Poverty
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Presentation Title: Workshop B: Fuel Poverty
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Until September 2007, Brenda led the Lower Carbon Futures group at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. In November 2007, she wrote Home Truths: a low-carbon strategy to reduce UK housing emissions by 80% by 2050 for Friends of the Earth and The Co-op Bank. Brenda has, in theory, retired and is now an Emeritus Fellow of the University of Oxford. She published Fixing Fuel Poverty - challenges and solutions with Earthscan in early 2010. The subject of fuel poverty is growing in importance across Europe. Brenda focuses on the built environment from the perspective of the user and the building provider, rather than the utility.
Darsh Chauhan - Leicester Energy Agency
Presentation Title: ENGAGE Project
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Charles Phillips - Assistant Director, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
Plenary Presentation: DECC Policy Update
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Charles joined DECC on its creation in October 2008 from the then Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). He works in the Green Deal team, and is responsible for the obligations that Government imposes on the major energy companies - the current Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) and Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP), as well as the design of the future Energy Company Obligation (ECO) that will run from late 2012 - and for issues relating to the involvement of Local Authorities in the Green Deal, including the future role of HECA.
Tristan Heath - Special Projects Manager, Climate Consulting
Workshop A: Green Deal
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Tristan is the Special Projects Manager for Climate Consulting, developing business strategy while also co-ordinating project delivery to ensure consistent standards of excellence across the team. Tristan previously managed Climate Consulting's business support programme, aiming to improve environmental performance with energy use, transport, water and waste through a range of measures. Tristan has extensive experience of working on ERDF and other government projects and can also provide specialist sustainability training support for SME and corporate businesses as well as planning and sustainable transport experience. Tristan holds a BSc and MSc and has previous experience of project management, consultancy, development projects and pharmaceutical industry analysis.
Tom Vosper, Climate Consulting
Workshop 4: Optimising investment in RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive) and
FIT (Feed-in Tariff) technology
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Leading CEN’s public sector division, Tom advises clients on all aspects of energy efficiency and renewable energy from strategy to implementation. Tom oversees three teams of consultants whose services to the public sector encompass energy, water, waste, transport and sustainable planning and policy. Tom has worked with schools, churches, communities, prisons, local authorities and housing associations. Tom has worked extensively on both new build, retrofit and research projects providing broad sustainability services as well as specialist advice in the fields of biomass and photovoltaic technology and detailed financial modelling. Tom joined CEN in 2004 after completing his Masters degree in Physics. Tom is a member of the Energy Institute and is currently studying for a Certificate in Energy Management.