Going Faster: Energy Voice Live x DNV

I'm going to uh invite each of our panelists to give a little bit of a 2-minute description of who you are and what you see as being the challenge that you are addressing [music] in your role uh here today and professionally. Uh >> [music] >> so, please Angeles, would you like to start us off?

>> Yeah, of course. Uh happy to be here. Thanks for having us here in Edinburgh, lovely place. Uh what I did would be my first time in Aberdeen as well. And what a view, too. Yes, I've been in Scotland many times, but not in Aberdeen, so yeah. It's it's a privilege to be here and among these distinguished

speakers. So, I'm a key account partner in DNV. I started this role a few months ago. I focus on UK government. Um what does that mean practically? I try to understand how our government perceives risk and by extension how we as DNV can support them navigate the space within the energy system. Now, this is very

big, broad umbrella terms, I'm aware, but that's sort of my role. Uh on the day-to-day, I look after government bids to be to be practical. Um I'm a civil engineering background, just for context, and I specialize in energy storage. So, as we go into the weeds of the conversation, I might bring the

conversation to lithium-ion batteries and energy storage as the solution for flexibility. Challenge, so yeah, that's that's sort of my role. >> Lovely. Thank you ever so much. And Maggie, welcome. >> Thank you very much. >> see you. Were you in Peterhead yesterday, just out of curiosity? >> I was not, no. >> Very good. Well,

me neither. [laughter] Me neither. Sorry. >> All right, other things, other things. >> Absolutely. >> Please put a great day. So, welcome everyone. I'm Maggie McKinley. I'm chief executive at ETZ Limited, so Energy Transition Zone Limited. We're based here in Aberdeen in the northeast of Scotland. We're all about how do we help