Groups and Committees

Utilities Group

Chair  Gavin Jones IBM Biography

Next meeting:

Last meeting:
Smart-Metering Roundtable with BERR, 25 June 2008 (PDF 85.38 KB) (members only) more»

About the group

The Utilities group represents the interests of ICT, electronics and telecommunications companies to the various utility sectors, such as water, gas and electricity, by engaging with the regulators, the regulated, and other stakeholders within these markets.

Current Activities

The group is currently holding a series of roundtables with the utilities regulators, to discuss some of the challenges faced in the utilities industry and the IT solutions that could help tackle these issues and meet new regulatory requirements. These roundtables provide a greater understanding of the direction of regulation within the utilities market, and enable members to discuss IT solutions directly with the regulators and government officials.

Objectives

The group seeks to improve the relationship between suppliers, regulators, the regulated, and other stakeholders within the utilities markets, for the benefit of all. The group will achieve this through a number of methods. The Group works in a variety of ways to achieve this:

• Promoting the supplier community to key stakeholders within the industry.
• Improving the knowledge and understanding of the role of, and future possibilities for, technology throughout the utilities industries.
• Engaging fully with Intellect members active in this area.
• Assisting the development of the industry and its marketplace through a variety of appropriate means.
• Working with Intellect to produce appropriate guidance and information both for the supplier industry and for the utilities industry, including regulators.
• Lobbying appropriate stakeholders on issues affecting the development of the role of technology in the utilities industries.
• Working, where appropriate, with other Intellect working groups.

For further information contact:

Scarlett Graham
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