Baringa Events

Join Nick Stewart, Partner in Baringa’s CFO practice, and Andrew Chittenden, Senior Partner at Baringa, on Wednesday 6 May 13:00-14:00 for a webinar for CFOs and Leaders of Finance functions. We will explore how CFOs can balance costs, new operational realities and regulatory challenges to stabilise businesses, hear from our CFO-guest speaker, and invite you to share your observations and challenges.

Please email Philip Stanton if you are interested in joining. If you aren’t available at the time of the webinar, but would like to catch up with Nick or Andrew at another time, please let us know, and we will set up a call with you.

Join us for our breakfast discussion, as we explore real world insights and case studies on emerging business and commercial models that facilitate the worldwide DSO transition.

This will include case studies from the UK, Australia and the US, demonstrating emerging revenue streams, drivers for change and how businesses are adapting to take advantage of these opportunities.

During the event, we will be joined by our guest speaker Jojo Hubbard from Electron.

Email enquiries@baringa.com if you are interested in joining.

The transformation of the energy sector is dynamic, all-encompassing and presents investors with many opportunities…and challenges. Our Where to Invest in Energy series is designed to give you a unique perspective on local and global energy markets.

We will be discussing:

• Top markets for 2020
• Offshore wind going global
• Carbon Capture
• Decarbonisation of heavy industry
• Hydrogen
• 3D - Digitisation, disruption, decentralisation
• Road to COP26

Let  us know if you would like to join by emailing EnergyInvestment@baringa.com. 

Baringa’s Future Energy Leaders Forum is a networking and thought-leadership event for rising stars and future leaders from the UK’s Energy, Water and Resources sectors. Hear from those who have shaped the industry, explore the latest innovations and discuss potential use cases, meet peers, and make new connections.

We are looking forward to welcoming our guest speakers:

Neil Clitheroe, Global Retail Director at Iberdrola, Europe’s fifth largest energy company, with a presence in Spain, Portugal and the UK. Neil has held numerous leadership positions in the energy sector, and was previously with ScottishPower, where he was CEO Retail and responsible for all customer facing activities in competitive markets. He has worked in Europe and the US, and will be speaking with David Hatcher, Senior Partner, Baringa Energy & Resources about his career, developments, observations and challenges in the sector, and share one or the other recommendation for future leaders in the sector.

Ian Cameron, Head of Innovation at UK Power Networks, where he and his team are working on innovative solutions such as readiness of the distribution network for renewable energy, future energy operating models, and reliable delivery for today’s customers. We are looking forward to Ian’s thoughts on how to effectively deliver innovation programmes, and UKPN’s strategic direction in a decarbonised energy future. 

Let us know if you would like to join us: FutureEnergyleaders@baringa.com.

An event in collaboration with Ashurst

We invite you to join us for an insider's perspective on current issues impacting the renewables sector. We will share tips for thriving in this ever changing sector drawing on learnings from advising on the country's most significant and ground-breaking projects.

Please contact enquries@baringa.com if you are interested in joining this afternoon event. 

An event in collaboration with Ashurst

We invite you to join us for an insider's perspective on current issues impacting the renewables sector. We will share tips for thriving in this ever changing sector drawing on learnings from advising on the country's most significant and ground-breaking projects.

Please contact enquries@baringa.com if you are interested in joining this afternoon event. 

The topic this time is 'PPA - Time to Market: Common Hurdles & Best Practice'. Join this networking and thought leadership event to discuss market insights, strategies and best practice. Hear the thoughts of experienced peers, explore the latest innovations and discuss potential use cases, all while making new connections and developing existing ones.

To find out more, email katrin.roertgen@baringa.com.

You have started investing in a number of changes to digitise your customer operations, but what’s next, where is your journey going? What is critical, what is nice to have, and how do you engage and maintain executive support for your long-term vision and the necessary investment? Are you making the right investments to reduce cost and deliver a competitive advantage, and do you have the right support?

Many organisations, particularly those not born in the digital era, have started their digital transformation at the outer ring of the organisation, the customer interface. The inner workings of the businesses have often taken second priority, leading to experiences that are not ‘joined up’ and do not meet the needs of customers. How do you help embed digital transformation throughout the organisation, to ‘be digital’ not just ‘do digital’? 

For more information, please email: alisa.kourkine@baringa.com

We have seen oil majors investing in charging technology, car manufacturers announcing large ranges of new electric vehicles and hybrids (BMW plans to release 25 new models by 2023), and grid operators rushing to prepare for the imminent increase in demand that comes with this. The Electric Vehicle-movement has gained real traction and will have a huge impact on the whole energy sector. Join us for a peer-to-peer networking event where we will discuss the impact of electric vehicles on the energy industry and on different companies within the sector.

We will kick the evening off with a presentation by Oliver Rix, Partner in Baringa’s Energy practice. He will challenge our thinking and present his views on the impact of EVs across the energy sector, and how an ‘electric future’ could look. We will also showcase some of our recent work, e.g. the smart charging trials with consumers, and our modelling work in the field of grid constraints with European TSOs. A moderated discussion will follow, and we are looking forward to hearing from our guests as to how they foresee EVs will impact their businesses.

For more information, please contact Ben Heininger.

We also welcome Ian Peters, who held numerous leadership positions in energy and financial services throughout his career. Ian will be speaking with David Hatcher about his career, and the developments he has seen in the sector.

Please let us know if you would like to join us: FutureEnergyleaders@baringa.com.

The transformation of the energy sector is dynamic, all-encompassing and presents investors with many opportunities…and challenges. Our Where to Invest in Energy series is designed to give you a unique perspective on local and global energy markets.

We will be discussing:

• The 10 investment predictions and why
• The next big markets globally for solar, onshore wind and offshore wind
• The options for “green firming”
• Moving from single investments to diversified portfolios
• Merchant risk – lessons learned from global markets
• Behind-the-meter opportunities and ESCOs
• Hydrogen eco-system – is 2019 too soon to invest?

Please let us know if you would like to join by emailing enquiries@baringa.com.

The transformation of the energy sector is dynamic, all-encompassing and presents investors with many opportunities…and challenges. Our Where to Invest in Energy series is designed to give you a unique perspective on local and global energy markets.

We will be discussing:

• The 10 investment predictions and why
• The next big markets globally for solar, onshore wind and offshore wind
• The options for “green firming”
• Moving from single investments to diversified portfolios
• Merchant risk – lessons learned from global markets
• Behind-the-meter opportunities and ESCOs
• Hydrogen eco-system – is 2019 too soon to invest?

Please let us know if you would like to join by emailing enquiries@baringa.com

We are expecting debates and contributions on topics such as moving from single tech investments to diversified portfolios, offshore wind in APAC, and investment opportunities in Taiwan, Korea, and Vietnam; the decline of firming power; the importance of quality of power; merchant Risk – how and where to offset against a portfolio; connecting capital projects and customers; hydrogen fuel cells; the role of large energy users, and behind-the-meter.  

We welcomed Jo Cox, Commercial Director, Centrica Connected Home (Hive) who spoke with David Hatcher, Senior Partner at Baringa, and took us on Hive’s start-up journey: the company’s aspiration is to bring technology and excitement into energy. Five years after launch, Hive now has over 1.5m customers who use the family of smart products and services. This success is down to the fact that Centrica spotted early on that technology would allow consumers to control their home energy management, an aspect they had very little influence over in the past. This, and the fact that smart technology has completely changed consumer behaviour presented a huge opportunity. Jo also emphasised the importance of gaining consumers’ trust and how established organisations have a huge advantage over start-ups in this field. As speed of innovation increases and resource limitations create boundaries for what can be done within an organisation, strong partnerships and ecosystems are key. Jo’s conclusion “The key is not what you sell but how it all links together.”

David Ferguson, Head of Digital Innovation, EDF shared his thoughts on the impact the ‘next wave’ of digital technologies will have on the energy sector, and illustrated this with AI-augmented engineers, digital twins that help prepare for engineering tasks, and neural networks and deep learning technologies that allow EDF to create an inventory of a power station with the push of a button. He explained how ‘unapologetically technology-driven organisations’ embed innovation in their organisations: they learn how to master the technology and then seek possible applications and use cases. David’s outlook into the future was that humans need to work out how to work alongside automation and technology, and leverage it for those tasks where technology has an advantage. We must however concentrate on, and perfect those tasks where we have an advantage over technology, such as collaboration and creativity.