Episode 4: How much can the Grid take?

In this episode, Ben Moore is joined by the UK’s leading business leaders and researchers in the renewable energy world. They address a mysterious subject, something that is invisible to us, works for us every second of the day and is, for most people, intangible and unknowable: it is the National Grid. And the Grid faces the biggest challenge in its history…how much can it take? Alex Hunter is Managing Director at Sherwood Power (www.sherwoodpower.co.uk), which provides energy storage solutions to industrial, commercial and governmental clients. Before leading the team at Sherwood, he held directorships in publishing, remote industrial equipment monitoring, and sub-micron filtration companies. Dr Michael Smailes is Electrical Infrastructures Research Engineer at ORE Catapult. He took his Master’s degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and gained his doctorate in Offshore Renewable Engineering from IDCORE with a focus on HVDC power transformers. Ravneet Kaur is Innovation Manager at ORE Catapult with a brief to enable high-potential SMEs to enter and grow in the renewable energy sector. She also leads the enterprise and academic engagement for the eGrid project. Ravneet brings more than a decade of hands-on business development to her role and holds an MSc International Marketing and PG in Renewable Energy, Enterprise and Management from Newcastle University and an MBA from Nagpur University. Ben Moore is Marketing Manager at ORE Catapult’s flagship centre in Blyth for advancing wind, wave and tidal energy. He studied Business Management at York St John University before taking his postgraduate degree in Renewable Energy, Enterprise and Management at the University of Newcastle. He is an active STEM ambassador working in local schools in the North East.