Peter Allcock

Director (Sector Lead Energy Transition)

SMBC Bank International plc

Peter Allcock joined SMBC in 2008 and has worked in both debt origination and credit. He is currently Sector Lead for Energy Transition within the Structured Finance Department’s Power and Renewable Energy team. Peter has extensive experience across renewable and energy transition sectors, including battery storage, battery gigafactories, and EV charging infrastructure. He has led financing for battery storage projects across EMEA, supporting the development of innovative solutions for the energy transition.

Hassen Bali

Co-Founder, Director

ion Ventures

Hassen Bali is a renewable energy and storage expert with deep experience in project finance and development. As co-founder of ion Ventures, he has led the firm in advancing renewable generation and electrification schemes across the UK, Europe and Asia since 2018. Prior to this, Hassen held key positions at Lightsource Renewable Energy, Cadence RB Limited, Ventura Climate Capital and Markit focusing on clean technology, environmental market and carbon finance.

Cameron Brown

Senior Investment Originator

Shell

Cameron Brown is a Senior Investment Originator at Shell. Working in the Power Trading business, Cameron leads deals across Europe with a focus on Flexibility Purchase Agreements and the deployment of equity & debt solutions in BESS, Gas-Fired Power and Data Centre markets. Cameron has spent a decade at Shell and holds an Executive MBA from London Business School.

Josh Brown

Origination Team Manager

SSE

Josh manages the Origination team for SSE Energy Markets (EM), a part of SSE Group. EM manages the gas, power and commodity position for the whole SSE portfolio, and additionally provides services for third party assets. In his role Josh manages a team in delivering a range of PPA options to the external market, BESS optimisation contracts, Structured Products and Green Certificate trading. SSE EM has contracted over 2 GW of long-term BESS contracts, under floors and tolls, and has contracted nearly 3 GW of CfD backed assets through Route to Market PPAs. The team also manages over 14 TWh of REGO sales each year. Josh has been at SSE for 6 years, prior he was at a medium-sized energy supplier managing the PPA portfolio, and before this at Natural Power working on planning applications for wind and solar farms in the UK.

Clare Burgess

Partner

Clifford Chance

Clare Burgess is a Partner at Clifford Chance and an Energy & Infrastructure specialist with extensive experience across renewable and energy transition assets. She co-heads the firm’s global Energy & Resources sector and Worldwide Projects Group and leads the London Energy & Infrastructure team. Clare is recognised as a leader in the sector and is ranked in Tamarindo’s Legal Power List.

Aidan Connolly

Head of BD FlexGen UK

ENGIE

Aidan leads ENGIE investments in new energy storage projects in the UK and Ireland. Historically, that has meant building out ENGIE’s BESS projects, with 2 x 50MW/100MWh projects in Scotland (Cathkin and Broxburn).

Over the last two years Aidan has also led the investment into the replanting of Dinorwig Power Station, ENGIE’s 1.8GW pumped storage asset in North Wales.The station’s six units will undergo a complete replanting over the coming ten years, costing over €1billion, with more news on this to come in the coming months.

Aidan also leads the investment into ENGIE’s largest European BESS asset at Cellarhead in Stoke, with 280MW/1,120MWh to be connected.

Pauline Deschryver

Senior Manager, Corporate & Project Finance

DTEK

Pauline Deschryver is a corporate and project finance professional with ten years of experience working at the intersection of infrastructure, energy transition and emerging markets.

She started her career in public-sector advisory and emerging markets consulting in Africa. She then moved into transaction execution and origination, through capital markets exposure at Morgan Stanley and then at IFC, as an Investment Officer in the Infrastructure Africa team.

She is currently a Senior Manager in Corporate and Project Finance at DTEK Group, the largest private energy company in Ukraine. She works on debt and equity transactions across CEE. Her role combines origination, structuring and relationship management with ECAs, multilaterals, commercial banks and strategic equity partners.

Carmen Caminero

UK Managing Director

EDP Renewables

Katie is an energy and infrastructure finance partner at CMS in London.  She specialises in financings in the energy transition sector with a particular focus on renewables and green transport financings.  She regularly advises developers, sponsors and lenders in the BESS sector, including in relation to co-located and portfolio projects. She recently advised Fidra Energy in relation to the financing of their Thorpe Marsh project.

Greg Falzon

Partner & Co-Head of Investments

AIP Management

Greg is a partner and co-heads the investment team at AIP, an energy transition infrastructure fund with c. EUR 8bn of AUM. AIP invests broadly across the energy supply chain from renewable energy generation, through transmission and energy storage to decarbonisation of end uses such as transportation and industry. Greg joined AIP 5 years ago after 20 years in infrastructure, including as Head of European Infrastructure at Bank of Montreal and leading Royal Bank of Canada’s infrastructure debt advisory team in London. He is a member of AIP’s investment committee.

Niels Jakeman

Head of Energy Origination, Structured Finance Europe

NORD/LB

With 18 years of energy finance and investment experience across Europe and Asia, Niels is the Head of Structured Finance Energy Origination for Europe at NORD/LB, which supports clients with structuring, arranging, and ultimately lending for project finance transactions. The team covers the full breadth of energy transition assets, including renewables (such as solar and onshore wind), as well as battery storage, grid technologies, and more recently hydrogen, with an annual financing volume of €1–1.5bn.

Julian Jansen

Managing Director, Germany

Fluence

Julian Jansen is the Managing Director, Germany at Fluence. Prior to this he was Managing Director for Eastern & Southern Europe, as well as holding roles in strategy, market development, policy and marketing teams across the EMEA region at Fluence. Julian is also a Vice President of the Energy Storage Europe (ESE).

Julian has dedicated his career to the clean energy sector. Prior to joining Fluence, he was an Associate Director at IHS Markit leading the group’s consulting activities on clean energy technologies, having previously managed its global energy storage team and before this establishing the energy storage practice at the consultancy Delta-ee.

Julian holds a Master of Science in ecological economics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; as well as a Bachelor of Business Administration in European management from Lancaster University, United Kingdom, and a Bachelor of Science in international management from ESB Business School in Germany.

Vincent Fosse

Investment Director

Prime Capital

Vincent Fosse is an Investment Director in the infrastructure team at Prime Capital, which has €4.4bn of AuM. Its funds invest in energy transition assets from renewable generation, battery storage to hydrogen and derivatives production and have secured funds this year from supranational institutions. In 2025 Prime concluded battery storage deals in Poland, Finland, Sweden, France and Germany.

Since 2020 Vincent has been involved in the sourcing, execution and structuring of Renewable Energy deals as well as BESS deals with a particular focus on Sweden, Finland and France.

Stephen Jennings

Chief Sustainability Officer EMEA

MUFG

Stephen has been a Project Financier for 25 years and is responsible for MUFG’s energy project finance strategy in EMEA, where it’s notably influential in offshore wind, recently demonstrated by the Inchcape and East Anglia 3 projects where it was both Financial Advisor and Lender. MUFG has deep expertise in transition technologies such as battery storage, bioenergy, hydrogen and CCS including the first UK financings of NZT, NEP and HyNet. Jennings is MUFG’s first regional Chief Sustainability Officer tasked with driving the Sustainability agenda in EMEA.

Roger Hollies

Chief Technology Officer

Arenko

Roger’s energy career began with installing a wind turbine on his family’s dairy farm. Today, as a founding member and CTO of Arenko, Roger has spent over a decade designing, building, and operating the UK’s first BESS systems. A vocal leader in the industry and participant in numerous NESO steering groups, helping to shape the standards of the modern energy grid, and is a passionate advocate for the use of automation and adoption rules as code techniques to advance sustainable energy grids worldwide.

Roger is the architect behind Nimbus, Arenko’s enterprise SaaS platform. He champions the philosophy that as the grid scales with renewables, complexity increases and automation is the only solution. With the Arenko team he pioneered the application of AI in energy optimisation over seven years ago, deploying it long before it became an industry standard, to process 7 billion data points daily to drive decision-making.

Currently overseeing 1GW of co-located and standalone assets across the UK, Germany, and the US, Roger creates the technology that powers market-leading assets for major players like RWE, Ørsted, and Gore Street Capital.

Lucie Kanius-Dujardin

Global Managing Director

NHOA Energy

Lucie Kanius-Dujardin is Global Managing Director at NHOA Energy. Lucie has played a central part in structuring a multicultural organization for global growth and operational excellence, supporting NHOA in scaling up its activities and delivering over 5 GWh of battery energy storage systems worldwide. Under her leadership, NHOA has strengthened its position as a leading provider of energy storage solutions, enabling grid stability and accelerating the integration of renewable energy.

Prior to NHOA, Lucie held several leadership roles at ENGIE, where she led global renewable energy projects, managed strategic M&A transactions, and became CEO’s advisor on strategic orientations.

Lisa Mackay

Chief Operating Officer

Fidra Energy Limited

Lisa is Chief Operating Officer at Fidra Energy, a large‑scale energy storage developer. With over 25 years’ experience in the energy sector, she brings deep expertise across thermal generation, commercial and trading functions, regulation, public affairs, IT, and asset management. At Fidra Energy, Lisa leads the build‑out of operational capability as projects reach commercial handover and has responsibility for route‑to‑market strategy, including negotiating and managing offtake agreements, as well as overseeing IT systems and data analytics.

Joshua Murphy

Head of Energy Storage

Econergy

Joshua Murphy is a renewable energy professional with over 15 years of experience in utility-scale solar and battery storage.

As Director of Energy Storage at Econergy (TASE: ECNR), he leads the company’s storage strategy and delivery across the UK and Europe.

Econergy operates in eight European markets with a ~12.5GW portfolio. Its storage platform totals around 7GW, with 600MWh connected or ready to connect and roughly 700MW (approximately 1.5GWh) in construction, targeting about 6GW connected and under construction by 2030.

Paul Mason

COO

Harmony Energy

Paul has over 15 years of experience in the energy sector. In 2018, he co-founded REMAP with Max Slade, a specialist UK battery storage consultancy with a specific focus on revenue forecasting and financial modelling. Paul spent 4 years at Long Harbour Ltd as co-Director of Energy Investment Team and he has advised on energy-from-waste projects with investment value of over £2bn whilst a Partner at Prime Numbers Infrastructure Finance.

Tomasz Ściesiek

Equity and Debt Origination Director

R.Power

Tomasz Ściesiek is the Equity and Debt Origination Director at R.Power, a pan-European IPP active across multiple renewable energy technologies and markets. R.Power’s European growth strategy centres on a significant pipeline of advanced, grid-secure battery energy storage (BESS) projects, both standalone and hybrid with solar PV.

At R.Power, Tomasz is responsible for mid- and long-term planning, strategy, and positioning of the R.Power Group. Tomasz also leads on securing financing at the HoldCo level as well as R.Power’s equity process and Green Bond issuances.

Prior to joining R.Power in 2022, he spent over a decade working in capital markets, including the largest Polish mutual fund PKO TFI and BZ WBK Asset Management.

Ed Porter

Director, EMEA, APAC

Modo Energy

Ed leads Insights at Modo Energy, working with battery owners, financiers and utilities across Europe, the US and Australia to optimize returns and scale solar and storage businesses.

Modo Energy provides market intelligence to 180+ companies enabling the energy transition through battery storage. For more on Ed’s work or Modo Energy’s market coverage, connect on LinkedIn

Daniel Sherlock-Burke

Director of Asset Management

Gore Street Capital

Daniel is Director of Asset Management at Gore Street Capital, responsible for technical management and specification of the fleet. He has broad experience spanning different battery chemistries and electricity systems–including some of the UK’s pioneering BESS projects–and uses this to support M&A TDD processes.

Daniel’s current focus is the use of in-house analytical tools to drive fleet performance improvements and successful delivery of project augmentations across the fleet. He is also known in the industry for his chair positions in safety working groups with the Electricity Storage Network and the H&S Governance Group with DESNZ.

Stefano D.M. Sommadossi

CEO

NatPower

A serial entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in sustainability investments in four continents. Founded and led Nexcentrica, NatPower UK, NatPower Marine, Sea.Energy, NextEnergy Capital, WiseEnergy and four energy transition companies in clean energy generation and electric vehicles charging services. Founder and trustee of Evogea. Former advisor to governments, fund managers, lenders and large listed corporations in sustainable investments, energy, marine, automotive, telecoms and media.

Erik Strømsø

CEO and Co-Founder

BW ESS

Erik Strømsø is the CEO and co-founder of BW ESS, a leading developer, owner and operator of BESS.

Founded in 2021, BW ESS is active across six countries and has ~540MWh of operational batteries, ~5GWh under construction, and a pipeline of ~9.3GW. BW ESS is part of BW Group, a leading global energy and maritime company.

Previously, Mr. Strømsø was a Senior Equity Partner and Head of Asia Pacific at Pareto Securities, a leading energy-focused investment bank. Mr. Strømsø is also a non-executive director on the boards of BW Digital, BW Water, Corvus Energy and Ingrid Capacity.

Alwyn Thomas

Head of Grid Services

Statkraft

Alwyn is Head of Grid Services at Statkraft, responsible for the business development of its portfolio of BESS and Grid Stability assets in the UK. He has nearly 20 years of experience within the energy space across investment, corporate finance and engineering functions. Previously, Alwyn was Head of Investment within Statkraft, where he covered renewable generation and energy storage investments, and he has also held roles at BNP Paribas and Rolls-Royce.

Emma Tinker

Co-founder and CIO

Asper

Emma co-founded Asper in 2016 with Luigi and Luis, with whom she had worked at HgCapital since 2008.

Emma has worked in investment since 1999 and in the energy sector since 2002. During her tenure at Hg she started the renewable energy business that eventually led to the raising of Hg’s first renewable energy fund in 2003.

Emma is responsible for Asper’s investment strategy, is Chair of the Investment Committee and sits on the Sustainability and Platform Management Committees. She leads the origination and strategic business planning on existing platforms and new investments. Over the years she has led and managed investments, financings and exits in different markets and technologies in the UK, Ireland, Germany, and Italy.

From 1996 to 1999, Emma worked in strategy consulting for Arthur Andersen Business Consulting.

Charlotte Whight

Partner - Energy Transition and Infrastructure Finance

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Charlotte is a finance partner in HSF Kramer’s energy transition and infrastructure practice. Her practice focuses on renewable and low carbon energy generation, storage and transmission. Charlotte regularly advises both sponsors and lenders on the project financing of BESS projects including co-located assets and portfolios of projects.