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Committee contacts
Mark Hobbins CEng FEI Chartered Energy Engineer
Chair
Gary Howorth MEI
Secretary
Dr Douglas Harris CEng MEI
Treasurer
Events and training
2025 SafetyOn Stakeholder Forum
4th December 2025
2025 SafetyOn Stakeholder ForumThe 2025 annual SafetyOn Stakeholder Forum will take place on 05th December 2024 at the Edinburgh International Confere...
Publications and documents
What's new?
UK publishes detail on long duration energy storage ‘cap and floor’ investment framework
19th March 2025
The TDD sets out how the cap and floor scheme will operate, application window timelines, eligibility criteria and the potential LDES capacity needed,...
UK government promotes investment in long-duration energy storage
23rd October 2024
The announcement followed a consultation held earlier this year which proposed a cap and floor scheme to encourage LDES investment. Such a model provi...
Plug and abandonment innovation aims to seal 100,000 methane-leaking wells by 2034
18th September 2024
Potentially preventing millions of tonnes of harmful greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions being released from wells into the atmosphere every year, a new te...
First power from UK’s Viking wind farm, and other new initiatives
19th June 2024
Shetland, some 170 km from the coast of Scotland, is gearing up to be fully connected to Great Britain’s electricity transmission grid for the first t...
ScottishPower to kickstart largest overhaul of UK grid
24th January 2024
With electricity demand forecast to double in the next 10 years, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says the UK needs more than 600,000 km of new o...
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