ESO Technology Advisory Council (TAC)

Álvaro has dedicated his career to research and development in the energy sector. He is driven to promote energy transition by empowering energy citizens towards a sustainable and just energy model.

Claudia leads in the areas of energy and spectrum optimisation at the Smith Institute. She champions the Institute’s vision of harnessing mathematics to solve the complex challenges facing the UK energy sector on the road to zero-carbon.

Alastair is a professional energy engineer with over 26 years of experience in the energy industry. He founded the first Demand Side Response (DSR) business in Great Britain in 2004.

Judith is an energy policy professional with long-standing practical experience of both the utility and consumer worlds. She has been an associate of the environment think-tank Sustainability First since 2005, including five years as director.

An experienced senior technologist with a background in Telecoms, ICT and the Smart Energy sector, Simon’s team provides strategic insight to inform the energy sector’s digitalisation strategy as a critical part of the transition to a net zero system.

With over 20 years’ industry experience, Kate leads RWE Renewable’s regulatory and policy development for ancillary services, capacity market and system integration in the UK electricity market, and provides E2E regulatory support for the Irish market.

Peter is responsible for Elexon's Digital Operations business, with over 30 years’ experience of the Energy Supply Industry in engineering, energy settlement and strategy. This includes over 15 years in technology strategy and post M&A transformation.

Anastasia is responsible for deploying engineering solutions to support BP’s ambition of transitioning to a low carbon energy world, and to digitally transform BP’s engineering. She has also held several leadership roles in BP’s chemicals technology team

Teodora’s rich background varies from working in business development for a renewable energy lobbying association in Brussels to the fast moving technology innovation startup scene in the UK.

Chris works with TSOs and DNOs globally on measuring and managing emerging stability issues. He is also Chairman of Flexassure, is on the UK Executive for CIGRE UK and represents the Association of Decentralised Energy on the ESO performance panel.

Graham has a held number of senior leadership roles within SPEN, mainly in operational engineering areas. He leads the transition to the smart flexible network of the future by realising SPEN’s ambition of becoming a DSO.

Andy’s role focuses on creating a world leading AI platform that solves urgent industry problems for now and in the future. He guest lectures at Imperial College Energy Futures Lab on topics such as energy storage, thermodynamics and electric vehicles.

JoJo ran the first multi-asset project financing deal in the anaerobic digestion space, before moving to the investment side with a focus on cleantech and software as a service. She also worked as a consultant focusing on energy efficiency and innovation.

Emma is an expert in whole-economy decarbonisation and the energy transition. She has previously served as Deputy CEO of the trade body Renewable UK, Head of Climate Change at WWFU-K, and sat on the Board of Scottish Renewables.

James works across AWS’s Energy and Utilities team in the UK, bringing together his experience of working in industry with the innovation, technology and mechanisms of AWS and Amazon to help create and accelerate transformative digital journeys.

Randolph has over ten years of experience in the electricity and energy sector in the UK, Europe and Australia. He is responsible for co-ordinating and delivering a broad range of strategic initiatives, including how networks can help to deliver Net Zero.

With over 26 years in Utilities and Energy, Melissa is a Fellow of the UK Energy Institute and Chairs the EI Electricity Board. She leads Accenture’s work with the World Economic Forum System Value, Net Zero Carbon Cities and Industrial Clusters.

Chris has worked on a range of research and innovation projects in system operation and planning, including control room algorithms and the GB Capacity Market. He is a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (the UK institute for Data Science and AI).

David leads the Data Science and Analytics team, managing the cloud-based data engineering, analytics and machine learning capabilities of Octopus’s Kraken platform to forecast customer behaviour and help to optimise hedging, pricing and operations.