Carbon Capture and Storage Forum

Bronwen Northmore

Head of CCS Policy, Department of Energy & Climate Change

Biography

Responsible for the development, demonstration and deployment of Cleaner Fossil Fuel technologies, particularly for power generation. Main areas of activity include technology development; policy in relation to demonstration of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the UK; the design and implementation of regulation for CCS; policy towards wider deployment of CCS in the UK; and how best to develop effective links between UK and international activity in order to encourage the swift deployment of CCS globally.

Ian Phillips

Director – CO2 Infrastructure, CO2 Deepstore

Biography

Ian Phillips has 27 years experience in the upstream oil and gas industry, including 18 years with oil operating companies (Shell, BP, Marathon and Ramco) and 6 years with a major service company (Halliburton).

In 2007 he became a founding Director of CO2DeepStore Limited, one of the first companies specifically seeking to provide the service of the deep geological storage of CO2 to alleviate the worst effects of climate change.

He is a Director of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA), and is Chairman of the CCSA Regulatory Workgroup that is currently in dialogue with DECC on the development of the UK CCS regulations.

He obtained an M.Eng. in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot Watt University, and an MBA through the Open University. He is a Fellow of the UK Energy Institute and is a Chartered Petroleum Engineer.

He is Chairman of the Board of Young Enterprise in Grampian and is a Director of the charity Young Enterprise Scotland.

Nick Horler

Chief Executive, ScottishPower

Biography

Nick Horler, 49, was appointed ScottishPower CEO in June 2008 following an impressive career in which he has held senior strategic roles in major companies both in the UK and abroad.

His appointment as CEO with ScottishPower follows the company’s successful integration with Iberdrola, during which a high priority was set on encouraging shared experiences and best practices across the Group while at the same time supporting local management. With the integration process now complete, the Iberdrola Group is now one of the five largest energy companies in the world and ScottishPower has become one of the Group’s principal engines of growth.

In the UK, where there is a planned investment of €4.2bn between 2008 and 2010, Nick has responsibility for 10,000 staff, an extensive electricity transmission and distribution network, and a customer base of over 5 million homes and businesses.

Before joining ScottishPower, Nick was Executive Director of E.ON UK plc and has held other senior executive positions in that group for more than 10 years. As CEO with Powergen Retail, Nick had responsibility for turnover of £6bn, 6,000 staff, and eleven locations in the UK and overseas. His duties as MD of the Energy Trading Division at Powergen included responsibility for integrated gross margin for the UK business, Trading, Power, Gas, Oil and Coal.

Prior to this he spent twelve years with Phillips Petroleum (now ConocoPhillps) where he progressed to Sales and Marketing Director, and spent three years in the USA as Supply and Trading Manager and then Risk Manager.

Nick is married with a family of three. He attended the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and subsequently gained an MBA from Warwick University.

Dr Pierre Dechamps

European Commission

Biography

Dr Pierre Dechamps holds an electro-mechanical engineering degree from Liège University, a Master of Science from Cranfield University and a PhD from Liège University.

He worked for 5 years as an assistant in Liège University, in the power generation department.

He then joined the industry, CMI, Cockerill Mechanical Industries, one of the world leading heat recovery boiler manufacturers for power stations, where he quickly became the Head of the R&D Engineering Department.

Since 1998, he worked for 10 years for the European Commission Directorate General for Research as project officer for clean coal technologies and later on for CO2 capture and sequestration.

In January 2008, he joined the Bureau of European Policy Advisers of President Barroso as the adviser for energy and climate change.

Chris Train

Director, Network Operations, National Grid

Biography

Chris Train is currently responsible for the real time operation of National Grid’s electricity and gas transmission networks in the UK, forward energy trading and balancing services, operational forecasting, planning and policy.

Chris Train has over 20 years experience within the energy and utility sector. Chris led the National Grid acquisitions of Keyspan and New England Gas in the north east US. These transactions followed the successful sale of half of National Grid’s UK gas distribution Networks.

In his early career Chris held a number of engineering regulation and commercial positions. Chris is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Energy Institute, the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers, and the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He has extensive experience operating in the commercial and regulatory environment in the UK, US and Europe.

Dr Paul Golby

Chief Executive, E.ON UK

Biography

Following a series of management appointments with Dunlop and BTR, he joined the Board of the ‘mini conglomerate’ Clayhithe plc in 1992. Joining East Midlands Electricity in 1998, he became Chief Executive of E.ON UK (formerly Powergen) in 2002. Since that time he has steered E.ON through two multi-billion pound acquisitions to a £8.5 billion turnover organisation employing 17,000 people.

He is a member of the Executive Committee of E.ON AG, one of the world’s largest investor-owned power and gas company and is the non-executive Chairman of AEA Technology plc. Dr Golby is a frequent commentator on the UK Government’s scientific and energy policy.

He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and the Energy Institute.

He was awarded an honorary degree from Aston University in 2007 and Cranfield University in 2008.

He was appointed Pro Chancellor of Aston University and Chair of Council in January 2009.