Sep 10, 2026 · 14 min · 8 segments
The UK is acknowledged as a renewables leader. Heavy transmission investment will help it enhance energy security alongside clean power. But when it comes to the third point of the energy trilemma…
Chris StarkGuest
Dominic HudsonHost
But if I can kick off with some of you for the detail, it's just a bit about your background and how you got to be one sitting here, but also becoming CEO of the Climate Change Committee and now your new role as Head of Mission Control towards the 2030 objectives.
Not a political appointee, but I knew Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, very well.
They're a statutory body that gives advice on the energy transition and on climate to governments across the UK.
I did that job for six or seven years and I've worked essentially on the energy transition in some shape or form now for almost 15 years.
So my outlook on it has been largely about the energy system change that is needed.
The job I do now, framed around those very things, is very much not about solely climate change.
It's about trying to show that we can drive the energy transition much, much more quickly than it would otherwise happen in this country.
So we came in with this idea that we could reach not a fully clean power system, but a mostly clean power system by 2030, the end of this decade.
You put the conditions in place for much more investment in clean energy generation, in grids, in energy storage, and now increasingly the stories about what you connect to that grid that we have largely now commissioned as we speak here two years into that.
But if I can kick off with some of you for the detail, it's just a bit about your background and how you got to be one sitting here, but also becoming CEO of the Climate Change Committee and now your new role as Head of Mission Control towards the 2030 objectives.
Not a political appointee, but I knew Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, very well.
They're a statutory body that gives advice on the energy transition and on climate to governments across the UK.
I did that job for six or seven years and I've worked essentially on the energy transition in some shape or form now for almost 15 years.
So my outlook on it has been largely about the energy system change that is needed.
The job I do now, framed around those very things, is very much not about solely climate change.
It's about trying to show that we can drive the energy transition much, much more quickly than it would otherwise happen in this country.
So we came in with this idea that we could reach not a fully clean power system, but a mostly clean power system by 2030, the end of this decade.
You put the conditions in place for much more investment in clean energy generation, in grids, in energy storage, and now increasingly the stories about what you connect to that grid that we have largely now commissioned as we speak here two years into that.
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