Energy Advisory to the Welsh Government

Prof Ron Loveland is a very experienced technologist and member of the senior civil service- having worked extensively at the industry/government interface on technology, innovation, enterprise and energy matters over the last 30 years. Following holding the post of Director: Sustainable Energy and Industry in the previous Welsh Assembly Government, he was appointed over ten years ago as the Energy Advisor to the Welsh Government with a mix of path-finding, advisory and ambassadorial roles (local and international) associated with helping to deliver the ambitious Net Zero objectives for Wales on a joined-up government basis.

Prior to holding these positions, Ron was the Chief Technology Officer responsible for advising the Welsh Assembly Government on energy, steel, telecommunications and more general sustainable business-development policies. Ron came to Wales in 1986 as head of the Wales innovation and technology(WINtech) operation within the then Welsh Development Agency- which followed undertaking a mix of academic and industrial research related roles in Scotland and England including: seminal work on a-Si photoconductivity; health and safety research and regulation and Whitehall-based, micro & opto-electronic industries sponsorship

Sganiwyd y neges hon am bob feirws hysbys wrth iddi adael Llywodraeth Cymru. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn cymryd o ddifrif yr angen i ddiogelu eich data. Os cysylltwch â Llywodraeth Cymru, mae ein hysbysiad preifatrwydd yn esbonio sut rydym yn defnyddio eich gwybodaeth a sut rydym yn diogelu eich preifatrwydd. Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg. Byddwn yn anfon ateb yn Gymraeg i ohebiaeth a dderbynnir yn Gymraeg ac ni fydd gohebu yn Gymraeg yn arwain at oedi. On leaving the Welsh Government this email was scanned for all known viruses. The Welsh Government takes the protection of your data seriously. If you contact the Welsh Government then our Privacy Notice explains how we use your information and the ways in which we protect your privacy. We welcome receiving correspondence in Welsh. Any correspondence received in Welsh will be answered in Welsh and corresponding in Welsh will not lead to a delay in responding.

Leverhulme Professor of Power Systems, Imperial College London. 

He is a co-founder of the Global Power System Transformation Consortium and a Hagler Fellow at Texas A &M. 

Between 2020 and 2022 he was the Chief Scientist at the Energy Systems Integration Group and between 2018 and 2020 he was the Chief Scientist, Energy Systems Integration at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA.  In 2017 he was the James M. Flaherty Visiting Professor in Electrical Engineering at McGill University.

He is recognized as a world authority on Energy Systems Integration and in grid integration of renewable energy.  He works closely and collaboratively with industry and researchers across the globe in a multitude of disciplines, including economics, social scientists, mathematicians, and geologists to address the challenges of transitioning the energy system.

He is a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and a foreign fellow of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering and has received two Fulbright Fellowships. 

How we Adapt

Lauren has more than ten years of experience in sustainable development research and practice. During her career, she has worked in the private and public sectors, academia, and with NGOs, focusing on sustainable energy transitions, urban resilience and green economic development. Through how we adapt, she has initiated the Just Urban Transitions project, which aims to understand and support the low-carbon transition across levels of organisation in policy, planning and implementation.

Lauren has an academic background in complexity and systems thinking (Master of Art in Philosophy) and development (Master of Philosophy in Development Policy and Practice). 

Through her work, she has demonstrated her particular interest in decentralised development and collaborative, distributed solutions to complex problems.

Imperial College

Dr Rocio A Diaz-Chavez is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Policy of Imperial College London since 2004. She acted as the Deputy Director and Energy and Climate Change Programme Leader for the Stockholm Environment Institute Africa Centre in Kenya from October 2017 to March 2022. She has extensive work and academic experience in sustainability assessment and environmental management tools and methodologies. Her research area focuses on sustainability assessment and deployment of bioeconomy, land use and natural resources and the synergies with energy, sustainability and other SDGs. Her research interests are on sustainability assessment (economic, environmental social and political/institutional) with application on renewable energy,  and climate change impacts.

She has participated and coordinated different EU funded projects and worked in different consultancy work for the European Commission as well as in other regions in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. She has collaborated and coordinated  different EU FP funded projects  since 2004including BEST (Bioethanol for sustainable Transport);  COMPETE (Energy Crops and Agroforestry Systems for Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems – Africa) (2006-2009), Eubionet on solid biomass trade; Biocore, Global-BioPact;  AfriCAN; Biotrade2020; Biorescue; COSMOS; CooCE

Kwame Nkrumah University, Ghana

Ghana Grid Company

UKERC Director

Professor Gross has been involved with UKERC since its inception, leading the Technology and Policy Analysis theme and has published extensively on energy policy and technology.  He has wide-ranging research management expertise and has made a substantive contribution to UK energy policy development, acting as advisor to Select Committees, preparing reports and chairing committees for Government departments and non-departmental public bodies, and as a consultant. He was seconded to the Cabinet Office in the early 2000s and contributed to the Blair Government Energy Review.

Rob has extensive teaching experience at masters and PhD level. He has been an invited speaker at a wide range of conferences and forums in the UK and overseas and makes regular contributions to the popular debate surrounding energy, in the mainstream press, online and in TV and radio appearances. In 2014 Gross was Chair of the Council of the British Institute of Energy Economics.

Energy Systems Catapult

Sathsara's research interests include statistical assessment of energy distribution networks, analysing the grid impact of low carbon technologies, flexibility provision from decentralized resources and operation improvement of local multi-vector energy systems.

She received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Peradeniya-Sri Lanka in 2014, and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cardiff University, U.K. in 2018. Since 2018 she is working as a post-doctoral research associate at the Centre for Integrated Renewable Energy Generation and Supply at Cardiff University. She was a visiting scholar at Tianjin University in China and conducted statistical analysis on a large amount of electricity distribution network data. She also spent a secondment at Toshiba TRL in Bristol, and during that time she employed machine learning techniques in her research.

Bristol University

Newcastle University

Energy Advisory to the Welsh Government

Prof Ron Loveland is a very experienced technologist and member of the senior civil service- having worked extensively at the industry/government interface on technology, innovation, enterprise and energy matters over the last 30 years. Following holding the post of Director: Sustainable Energy and Industry in the previous Welsh Assembly Government, he was appointed over ten years ago as the Energy Advisor to the Welsh Government with a mix of path-finding, advisory and ambassadorial roles (local and international) associated with helping to deliver the ambitious Net Zero objectives for Wales on a joined-up government basis.

Prior to holding these positions, Ron was the Chief Technology Officer responsible for advising the Welsh Assembly Government on energy, steel, telecommunications and more general sustainable business-development policies. Ron came to Wales in 1986 as head of the Wales innovation and technology(WINtech) operation within the then Welsh Development Agency- which followed undertaking a mix of academic and industrial research related roles in Scotland and England including: seminal work on a-Si photoconductivity; health and safety research and regulation and Whitehall-based, micro & opto-electronic industries sponsorship

Sganiwyd y neges hon am bob feirws hysbys wrth iddi adael Llywodraeth Cymru. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn cymryd o ddifrif yr angen i ddiogelu eich data. Os cysylltwch â Llywodraeth Cymru, mae ein hysbysiad preifatrwydd yn esbonio sut rydym yn defnyddio eich gwybodaeth a sut rydym yn diogelu eich preifatrwydd. Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg. Byddwn yn anfon ateb yn Gymraeg i ohebiaeth a dderbynnir yn Gymraeg ac ni fydd gohebu yn Gymraeg yn arwain at oedi. On leaving the Welsh Government this email was scanned for all known viruses. The Welsh Government takes the protection of your data seriously. If you contact the Welsh Government then our Privacy Notice explains how we use your information and the ways in which we protect your privacy. We welcome receiving correspondence in Welsh. Any correspondence received in Welsh will be answered in Welsh and corresponding in Welsh will not lead to a delay in responding.

University of Bath

Head of Centre for Sustainable Power Distribution (CSPD)

My research is concerned with fundamental development of new analysis tools, algorithms, economic theories to inform next generation of grid operation and planning and market economics, and quantification of whole-system value of low carbon technologies and network flexibility. My research has the following three strands: i) Smart grid modelling, control, operation, planning and pricing, ii) Whole-system approach to business models and business cases for new technologies and economic incentives, iii) Big data analyses for smart grid and smart metering data to substantially improve grid and market operating efficiency.

University of Cambridge

Research Interests: Regulation, privatisation and liberalization in the network industries; cross national efficiency comparisons in the electricity industry; business ethics, social capital and corporate governance.

Background:Michael Pollitt is Professor of Business Economics, a Fellow of and Director of Studies in Economics and Management at Sidney Sussex College. He is also a Research Associate of the Centre for Business Research and a member of the Faculty of Economics.

Senior Lecturer, Queens University Belfast

UK Power Networks (UKPN)

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED)