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You're invited to the CTSI Business Round Table Webinar with National Grid!
We hope you'll join us on February 9 at 1 PM ET.
Members of CTSI, as well as prospective members, are invited to our exclusive February Business Round Table webinar. To kick off the year, we'll cover "National Grid's Technology Priorities" with Neil Hughes, Strategy Manager at National Grid on February 9 at 1 PM ET.
E-mail Laura to receive more information about membership and how to get involved with events like these, or check out the memberhip information on our website. Each month, CTSI hosts a similar event. If you want to try out a round table before commiting to membership, CTSI will grant you a one-time waiver.
Neil Hughes is a member of the Utility Technology Challenge committee. Interested in having your technology reviewed by National Grid and other partner utilities? Apply by February 18!
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National Grid, like most utilities, faces unprecedented challenges in delivering energy affordably, securely and cleanly. These three drivers often pull in opposing directions, and meeting all three will require new innovative technology breakthroughs. National Grid increasingly looks to start-ups, entrepreneurs, VCs and universities to help develop solutions to these challenges. The utility model is not always well understood, so National Grid recently took time to document and share these challenges in more detail. This session will discuss that journey, the key challenges they have shared and how they hope this will help on the journey to a low carbon future.
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Contact CTSI to RSVP
Laura Benold
email: laura@ct-si.org
phone: 512/692-7267
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 Neil Hughes is an Electrical Engineer with 20 years of energy industry experience and currently leads National Grid’s technology strategy within the corporate Group Strategy function. In this role, he evaluates business opportunities and challenges offered by emerging transformational type technologies; developing strategies, plans and partnerships for taking forward.
Neil sits on a number of external advisory boards and committees in the clean tech space, advising on policy, technology and utility challenges in meeting the vision of a low carbon economy. Within the company, Neil also co-ordinates global R&D activities across the group, ensuring R&D programs match corporate ambitions and deliver operational improvements.
Previously at National Grid, he held senior positions in Business Development and IS, including 2 years in South America developing a telecoms joint venture start-up. Prior to National Grid, Neil held positions with GEC Marconi, UK Ministry of Defense, Manweb (UK electric distribution company) and British Nuclear Fuels in various senior engineering and business development positions. |
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