GB electricity outlook to 2050
Abstract
Guy will provide a candid assessment of the UK’s Government’s prospects for achieving its 2030 clean power and 2050 net zero ambitions focusing his comments on the GB power system
Biography
Dr Guy Doyle is energy economist with 45 years’ experience in UK and international energy and fuel markets. He is recently retired from Mott MacDonald where he worked on hundreds of projects across the energy sector in multiple jurisdictions, from the Bahamas to Afghanistan from running country energy masterplans, modelling green ammonia production chains to searching for an I-phone for energy. UK work included market, costing, financing and regulatory assessments for developers and government. He also sat for a decade on the UK Government’s Panel of Technical Experts advising on capacity markets and energy security issues.
Prior to joining Mott MacDonald, he ran Power Ink, an electricity consultancy (~16 staff), was a partner at McCloskey Coal, chief economist at IEA Coal Research and forecasting consultant at DRI Europe (now part of IHS-Markit) where he did whole system modelling. He also spent 2 years writing for the Financial Times on energy matters and was the founding editor of FT Power UK (in 1991) and lead author of FT’s Power as a Commodity (1996). Guy holds a Doctorate in Political Economy from the University of Aberdeen (in which he analysed high renewable and conservation deployment strategies). The external markers were the late Professors Surrey and Cheshire both at Sussex’s Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU).