Dr Barbara Hammond MBE is Chief Executive of the Low Carbon Hub IPS Ltd, a community energy business that she founded in 2011 and has now grown to a position where it owns £25m of renewable energy projects, and works with 46 community energy groups throughout Oxfordshire. It can take its part in nationally significant innovation projects, such as Project LEO, working out how to deliver the transition to a zero carbon energy system powered by renewables. In this talk, she reflected on that journey, and discussed how working at the community scale will be essential to the orderly transition to a zero carbon energy transition powered by renewable electricity.
