This panel debate is tonight in central London.
Will the lights go out?
In February this year, Alistair Buchanan of OFGEM, warned that Britain was on an 'energy rollercoaster' with the combination of old coal and atomic power plants closing and overseas gas supplies shrinking leaving future domestic energy reserves "uncomfortably tight". More recently the finger was again pointed at government for significantly underestimating the scale of the capacity crunch facing the country. But with government denying any complacency and confident of the provision of secure supplies and the current cold snap testing the stored gas supplies, we ask 'Will the lights go out?' ' FES has brought together 4 excellent and highly knowledgeable speakers covering a range of specialist perspectives to find out;
- Volker Beckers, Former Group CEO, RWE nPower plc
- Ian Marlee, Senior Partner, SG&G Transmission at OFGEM
- Peter Atherton, Utility Research at Liberum Capital and giver of the FES 2012 annual lecture - Utility Finance in the 2010s
- Gaynor Hartnell, Chief Executive of the Renewable Energy Association.
Details here. As always, if someone can do me a report, that would interesting.