Paul Maplethorpe
Presentation Title: Chair's Welcome
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Paul first began his career in insulation in 1987 knowing nothing much about the subject. He worked with a private company in conjunction with Rotherham Council on a project with help from National Energy Action to fund insulation works, loft and draft proofing. Working from 1987 to 1999, he took advantage on the way to become a full SAP assessor and also took up a post with NEA as a regional representative for the Yorkshire and Humber region. Paul became a HECA Officer in 1999, which was also his first introduction to CAN or, as it was then, the Home Energy Conservation Association.
Nigel Dewbery - Head of Obligation Delivery, E.ON
Presentation Title: Chair's Welcome & Supplier's view of Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and Green Deal
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Nigel started his business life as a time served electrician in the private sector, before joining Eastern Electricity managing electrical contracting teams in the 1980s.
After joining SWEB (now EDF Energy), Nigel became involved in energy efficiency at the beginning of SoP in 1994 and managed SWEB’s operations in Devon and Cornwall installing insulation. His involvement has covered many aspects of the practical delivery of energy efficiency through managing Warm Front for Eaga Partnership, the HEAT project for Enact Energy and, more latterly, overseeing the growth at Climate Energy.
Nigel joined E.ON UK early in 2011 and is now responsible for the delivery of ECO, Green Deal and Warm Homes Discount Obligations to the UK Government. He is central to their planning and direction for the Energy Company Obligation.
The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Maddock, Lady Beith - Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords
Presentation Title: Keynote Address
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Diana Maddock was born in 1945 and taught in Southampton, Bournemouth and Sweden until she had a family and became involved in politics in the mid 1970s.
Diana joined the Liberal party in 1976. She was elected to Southampton City Council in 1984, only giving up her seat when she was elected to Parliament at a by-election in 1993. On the council she was Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group and had a particular interest in housing and energy conservation.
Diana served as Member of Parliament for Christchurch from 1993-1997. During that time she served on the communities of a number of Parliamentary Bills covering Housing, Finance and Building Societies. She was also Spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats on housing, the family and women's issues.
In 1994 Diana came out number one in the Private Members Bill Ballot. She chose the Home Energy Conservation Bill which she successfully piloted through all its Parliamentary stages to become the Home Energy Conservation Act 1995.
Diana has close associations with many national organisations concerned with housing and energy conservation and is active in All-Party Parliamentary groups concerned with these areas.
Diana has been a life peer since November 1997. She stood down as Housing Spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords in 2004.
From 1998-2000 Diana Maddock was Federal President of the Liberal Democrat Party. She was a member of Northumberland County Council 2005-8 and of Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Council 2007-9.
She was a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life 2003-9. In June 2001, she married Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith, the Lib Dem Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Specialisms: Environment, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Energy, Government & Politics, Standards in Public Life
Marcus Brooks - Senior Policy Adviser, Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC)
Presentation Title: The Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation(ECO)
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Marcus Brooks is a Senior Policy Adviser in the Green Deal Energy Company Obligation Team. He has worked on energy company obligations since 2010, including on both CERT and CESP, and previously worked on EU Emissions Trading System and negotiating the EU 20/20 package. He has been with DECC since its formation.
Prior to joining DECC Marcus was with Defra and has a range of previous government experience, particularly in the field of industry regulation - including rail and telecommunications regulation. Marcus has also worked in the private sector for a long period, at a major communications company, holding a range of government relationship roles.
Peter Sumby - Director of Development and Delivery, National Energy Action (NEA)
Presentation Title: Fuel Poverty
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Peter Sumby has worked at NEA, the national fuel poverty charity, since 1996 and has been Director of Development and Delivery since 2006. Peter is a member of NEA’s senior management team, responsible for the delivery of NEA’s practical work programmes which, in partnership with local authorities, housing associations, the health sector, the community sector, energy company partners and others, seek to demonstrate innovative ways of bringing affordable warmth to low income and vulnerable households.
Peter leads a team of 24 staff with expertise in tackling fuel debt, delivering accredited training to improve sector skills and in specifying and evaluating the performance of technical solutions to fuel poverty. Peter’s role involves developing strategic partnerships to enable the delivery of NEA’s programmes and to manage relationships with the national and local agencies with whom NEA needs to engage in order to deliver projects that tackle fuel poverty.
Peter is responsible for NEA’s technical services, which have increasingly focussed on the role of alternative and renewable technologies in tackling fuel poverty. Peter’s role is also to ensure that lessons learned from project delivery are incorporated into NEA’s policy development process in order to inform NEA’s advisory role to government, local government and the wider energy sector.
Martin Walker - Project Director, Warm Up North, Newcastle City Council
Presentation Title: Warm Up North Project
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Martin Walker is the Project Director of Warm Up North. Warm Up North is the regional housing retrofit project for the north east of England. Led by Newcastle on behalf of the region, the partnership includes Northumberland, Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland, Durham, Darlington, and Redcar & Cleveland. The scheme will deliver ECO and Green Deal measures to all tenures of housing across the participating authorities. Martin has been Project Director of the project since March 2012. Prior to that, Martin worked in housing regeneration in local government in the north east for around 15 years, including time as Head of Regeneration with Chester-le-Street District Council and Area Director for the west of Newcastle with Newcastle City Council.
John Kolm-Murray - Seasonal Health & Affordable Warmth Co-ordinator, London Borough of Islington and Deputy Chair, National Carbon Action Network
Presentation Title: Fuel poverty, seasonal health and the new NHS
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John has worked on fuel poverty in Glasgow and London and is currently Seasonal Health & Affordable Warmth Co-ordinator at the London Borough of Islington, leading on the integration of affordable warmth and health work. In addition to developing policy and strategy John manages a number of programmes, including the successful Seasonal Health Interventions Network (SHINE) for two London boroughs. His main interests are in the prevention of seasonal health inequalities, protecting the most vulnerable against the impacts of climate change and addressing the particular challenges of energy efficiency in inner cities. Recently he won the European Prize for Innovation in Public Administration for his team’s work on SHINE. In 2013 he will join the NICE Public Health Advisory Committee on Excess Winter Deaths and is currently studying towards a Master of Public Health degree.
Workshops
Workshop A: Green Deal
Facilitator: Andrew Cooper - Yorkshire Centre Manager, tadea
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The Green Deal is the Coalition Government's flagship policy for improving the energy efficiency of peoples homes. This workshop will explore the early indications on whether or not the Green Deal is proving attractive to householders and also assess whether it is fit for purpose or if it is fundamentally flawed.
Andrew Cooper - Yorkshire Centre Manager, tadea
Andrew Cooper has worked in the housing and energy sector since 1993 when he became Kirklees Council's first Energy Efficiency Coordinator, he went on to work for neighbouring Calderdale Council introducing the UK's first universally free insulation for pensioners. He has since then worked on Regional Energy Policy for Yorkshire and Humber Assembly and has been Head of On Site Renewables for the Renewable Energy Association and Director of Advice and Policy at Yorkshire Energy Services. He is now the Yorkshire Centre Manager for tadea, a sustainable energy Company covering the North of England. Andrew was elected to Kirklees Council in May 1999 as a Green Party Councillor and has been re-elected four times in the Newsome Ward. He proposed the UK’s first universally free insulation scheme which saw over 50,000 Kirklees homes insulated by 2011 and was the most successful insulation scheme in the country according to the Department for Energy and Climate Change. In 2000, he initiated the Council’s Renewable Energy Fund which has seen Kirklees become the leading authority in the deployment of microgeneration technologies with over 5% of the UK’s Solar Capacity in the borough. In 2008, Andrew successfully obtained funding for the Kirklees RE-Charge scheme which provides householders with renewable technology for their homes with no upfront costs or monthly payments. This scheme was the winner of the British Renewable Energy Awards in 2010. In 2009, he was recognised in the Independent on Sunday’s list of the top 100 Environmentalists (Number 59) and was the only Councillor on the list.
Workshop B: ECO (Energy Company Obligation)
Facilitator: Tina Cowley - Senior Relationship Manager (ECO HHCRO), E.ON UK
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Confused by ECO? This workshop aimed to look at the key significant changes and requirements to enable you to access ECO funding and use it within the rules set out by DECC at an early stage. Being only a two-year programme it is important to gain an early understanding of ECO and this workshop is here to help. E.ON's specialist advisors were on hand to answer your questions.
Tina Cowley - Senior Relationship Manager (ECO HHCRO), E.ON UK
Tina started at East Midlands Electricity back in early 1997 and worked through the Powergen years and into the E.ON era, so has over 16 years’ service to date and has held a variety of roles during that time in different locations. In Nov 2012, she took up the role of Senior Relationship Manager working on the new ECO obligation specifically in relation to the delivery of the Home Heating Cost Reduction element of it (HHCRO). Tina manages, amongst others, a team of six field-based staff who are looking to identify potential community schemes in which to deliver HHCRO measures.
Workshop C: Fuel Poverty
Facilitator: Lesley Tudor Snodin - Project Development Co-ordinator, National Energy Action
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Areas for discussion include:
- Experience so far of delivering ECO? What works/What doesn’t?
- Having identified barriers, how can we overcome them – or what would need to change to overcome them?
- What mechanisms are in place or should be out in place to enable householders to benefit from advice and guidance and how do we harness networks (or build the capacity of networks) to bring these benefits to vulnerable households.
Lesley Tudor Snodin - Project Development Co-ordinator, National Energy Action
Lesley Tudor-Snodin is a Project Development Co-ordinator for the fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA), responsible for the delivery of NEA’s practical work programmes which, in partnership with local authorities, housing associations, the health sector, the community sector and energy company partners, seek to demonstrate innovative ways of bringing affordable warmth to low income and vulnerable households.
Lesley joined NEA in August 2008 as a Communications Officer through which she developed experience of campaigning at a national level, organising and speaking at regional and national events, writing and distributing press releases and broadcasting on local and national radio.
Prior to NEA, Lesley worked as a Marketing Manager for a national furniture company and previously worked as a Project Support Officer for One NorthEast. She completed her BA honours in Media in 2003 from Leeds Metropolitan University.
Workshop E: Solid Wall Insulation including SWIGA Guarantee
Facilitators: Nick Pinkham from SWIGA and Lorraine Scott of the National Insulation Association
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Solid Wall Insulation is a key area of focus in the new Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation and there will be a major increase in installations from 2013. The NIA represent the manufacturers, system designers and installers of Solid Wall Insulation - external wall, internal wall and hybrid wall (internal and external on the same property) insulation and will provide delegates with details of the solutions available, opportunities and challenges and work that NIA is doing to expand the market. Quality Assurance and Consumer Protection are key in the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation and the Solid Wall Insulation Guarantee Agency will provide details of its new SWIGA framework and independent 25 year guarantee.
Nick Pinkham - General Manager, SWIGA
Nick Pinkham is the General Manager of the Solid Wall Insulation Guarantee Agency (SWIGA), a not-for-profit organisation formed to support the highest standards of quality for solid wall insulation installations, backed by a simple and dependable guarantee.
Nick has worked in the construction materials industry for over 30 years and joined Saint Gobain Weber in 2006. He headed up a team of sales and technical managers specifying and selling External Wall Insulation (EWI) and renders in the south of the UK during a period of great change in the market.
Lorraine Scott - Sales Manager Refurbishment, National Insulation Association
Lorraine Scott representing the National Insulation Association is the National Sales Manager for ECO and Refurbishment at Sto Ltd a leading external wall system designer with over 60 years’ experience. Lorraine has spent over 30 years in the external wall and insulation industry and has a wealth of experience. Starting her career with Rockwool the insulation manufacturer, where she spent 24 years, she has spent the past eight years in the External wall market and has worked with several external wall system designers.