People Power: imagining an energy system that works for everyone

What would a fair energy system actually look like?

Not just a cheaper one, or a greener one, but one that works for everyone, including the millions of people currently being pushed into hardship by their bills.

Join us on 16th November in London, for a joint conference from Fair By Design and Joseph Rowntree Foundation. We are bringing together policy makers, industry, academics and people with lived experience of energy poverty together to ask the questions: 'What does a fair energy market look like? and how do we get there'

Agenda

8.45 - 9.30 Registration/ coffee & pastries

9.30 - 9.45 Keynote opening speech TBA 

9.45 - 10.45 What is the current vision for the future energy market?

• Chair - Sulaiman Ilyas-Jarrett, Policy Fellow at Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy
• Jemma Baker, Deputy Director, Ofgem
• Ben Golding, Director of the Clean Power Unit, DESNZ
• Bea Natzler, Team Leader - People and Business, Climate Change Committee
• Member of Fair By Design's Lived Experience Panel 

10.45 - 11.15 Coffee Break

11.15 - 12.15 From optimisation to transformation, how can we create a fair energy system?

• Dr Christian Calvillo, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Energy Policy University of Strathclyde
• Jaya Sood, Senior Economist, New Economics Foundation
• Adam Bell, Partner, Stonehaven
• Mat Lawrence, Founder and Director, Common Wealth
• Adam Scorer, CEO, National Energy Action

12.15 - 13.15 Lunch

13.15 - 14.30 Choice of two break out sessions

Break out session 1 - How do we deal with the fixed costs of the energy system?

• Maxine Frerk, Associate, Sustainability First
• Alex Belsham-Harris, Head of Energy Consumer Markets, Citizens Advice
• Gareth Fearn, Writer and Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Oxford
• Joshua Emden, Senior Research Fellow, IPPR

Break out session 2 - What are the priority interventions to ensure everyone can afford the energy they need to keep them safe and well?

• Charlotte Johnson, Director of Research and Analysis, Centre for Sustainable Energy
• Rose Chard, Consumer Insight Manager, Energy Systems Catapult
• Louise Sunderland, Director, Europe Programme, Regulatory Assistance Project
• Jonathan Marshall, Principal Economist, Resolution Foundation

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 16.15 How can we involve people in the energy transition? 

Session to be run by Poverty Alliance and members of Fair By Design's lived experience panel, speakers to be confirmed. 

16.15 - 16.30 Final Reflections

Together, we'll examine what a fair energy system looks like, how the costs of the transition should be shared, and how people can help shape the changes ahead. 

If you would like to join but travel costs are outside of your organisation's budget we may be able to support your attendance, please contact fbd@barrowcadbury.org.uk

Fair By Design is the campaign aimed at eliminating the poverty premium - the extra money that those on low-incomes pay for essentials such as energy, insurance, credit and food.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation works to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.