Unlocking Lower-Cost Business Electrification

Live panel discussion + audience Q&A | 60 minutes | 21 October, 14:00 BST

Electrification can deliver more efficient operations, better products and new commercial opportunities- not simply lower carbon emissions. Yet high electricity costs and infrastructure constraints continue to weaken the business case and slow the development of technologies needed to electrify heat, transport and industry. 

This webinar explores how innovation across energy storage, flexibility, forecasting and intelligent control can help businesses use electricity more efficiently and affordably. It will also consider how these solutions can more seamlessly interconnect to create an integrated electricity system. 

Questions we explore:

  • What role can innovation play in reducing the cost of electricity for business users?
     

  • What can the electrification of heat, aviation and maritime transport learn from the progress made in electric vehicles?
     

  • How can energy planning and infrastructure investment ensure available electricity reaches the businesses and locations that need it? 

Speakers 

  • Moderator: Tim Mann, Co-founder & Advisor, Innovation Zero
     
  • Jon Saltmarsh, Chief Technology Officer, Energy Systems Catapult
     
  • Beverley Cornaby, Director - Policy and Systems Change Collaborations, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
     
  • Ned Hammond, Deputy Director, Policy, Energy UK

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Why this webinar matters

Reducing electricity costs is not solely a question of changing wholesale prices. It also requires businesses and the wider system to become better at forecasting demand, storing energy, shifting consumption and coordinating infrastructure.

This webinar will connect these currently fragmented areas, exploring how technological and system innovation can work together to make electrification more commercially viable. 

Attendees will learn

  • Where innovation could have the greatest impact on the cost and commercial viability of electrification.
     

  • How flexibility, storage and intelligent energy management can reduce costs and pressure on the grid.
     

  • Why closer alignment between business investment and national, regional and local energy planning will be critical. 

Who should attend

This webinar is for business leaders responsible for energy, operations, estates, transport, sustainability and investment, alongside energy technology providers, infrastructure organisations, policymakers and investors working to accelerate electrification. 

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