Accelerating Deployment Through Collaboration

23 Nov 2026
Main Stream

Successfully deploying electrification requires far more than individual organisational ambition. It depends on a connected ecosystem of business leaders, network operators, local authorities, infrastructure providers, investors and policymakers working towards a shared vision.

This session explores how we build the partnerships, capabilities and leadership needed to accelerate electrification deployment across organisations, places and the wider energy system.

  • How can businesses, network operators, local authorities and infrastructure providers work together to unlock deployment at scale?

  • Does successful electrification need to be planned around places, industrial clusters and local energy systems?

  • What new capabilities, procurement models and organisational leadership are needed to successfully deliver electrification programmes?

  • How can stronger collaboration, knowledge sharing and cross-sector partnerships create a deployment-oriented community?

Speakers
Mercedes Maroto-Valer OBE
Mercedes Maroto-Valer OBE, Champion and Director, Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC)
Rachel Solomon Williams
Rachel Solomon Williams, Executive Director, Aldersgate Group