Innovation in Energy PwC UK

In our latest Innovation in Energy podcast, Jonathan Brearley, CEO of Ofgem, joins our host, Liz Hunt, Energy and Resources Sector Leader for PwC, and Gemma Carr, PwC’s Workforce Services Lead for Energy, Utilities and Resources, to discuss the role of leadership and workforce transformation in closing the skills gap.

In our latest Innovation in Energy podcast episode, Katie Jackson, Executive Vice President Acquisition and Divestment and New Business Development at Shell and Chair of Powerful Women and PwC's Vicky Parker, Energy Utility Resources Strategy Lead, and UK Power and Utilities lead, join series host Liz Hunt to explore security, affordability and sustainability on the pathway to decarbonisation.

In our latest Innovation in Energy podcast our global panel explores the resource requirements to deliver Energy Transition, in particular the impact on critical minerals. As countries and companies move forward with their net zero targets there is going to be an enormous increase in demand for certain minerals - in particular those that support electrification and energy storage.

Elisabeth Hunt, a PwC partner hosts the session and is joined by three experts from across our global network. Jonathan Lee, UK Mining and Metals leader, Lauren Bermack, Canadian Mining deals leader and Lachy Haynes, Partner in PwC Australia’s Environmental and Transactions Advisory Group.

Recent PwC research highlighted 50% of technologies are not currently covered by regulatory or investment frameworks that allow infrastructure investors to provide the necessary finance in an efficient manner – a gap of £200bn over the next decade.

Ahead of COP26, this episode explores the role of the conference in bridging the gap between the investment needed to reach Net Zero, and the levels of investment currently made in the required technologies.

Claire Reid, a PwC Partner and the firm’s leader in Scotland, chairs the session and is joined by Lawrence Slade, CEO of the Global Infrastructure Investors Association, Jaroslava Korpanec, Managing Director at Allianz Capital Partners, and PwC’s Colin Smith, a Partner leading on Transaction Services in Energy and Utilities Infrastructure.

It’s clear there’s no silver bullet when it comes to reaching the net zero 2050 target in the UK. A portfolio of technology solutions will be required with solutions complementing one another if we are to achieve net zero.


In this episode, we’re joined by Julia Pyke - Nuclear Development Director at EDF Energy and Helen Liddell - President of the Carbon Capture & Storage Association to talk about how new nuclear and CCUS can be part of that mix.

The UK has become the first large economy to legislate for net zero emissions by 2050 and with this goal in mind, hydrogen is in the ascendancy. After many years on the periphery of energy policy discussions, the energy industry is increasingly talking about hydrogen. This podcast episode features expertise from across the energy world to explore the opportunities, challenges and policy decisions that need to be made so that hydrogen and can fully realise its potential in helping to decarbonize electricity, heat and transport.



Chairing the podcast is Adrian Del Maestro - Director of Research at Strategy& and he is joined by Janine Freeman - Director in Deals in PwC's New Energy practice, Sam Hollister - Director of Economics and Corporate Services at Energy UK, Ed Syson- Chief Strategy and Safety Officer at Cadent Gas and Alan Thomson- Global Leader Energy Systems at Arup.