Speakers
Karen Silverman
Panel Discussion
Alice Delahunty is the first President of our Electricity Transmission business, a role in which she is responsible for the safe and efficient operation of the electricity transmission network for England and Wales.
Alice was previously Head of Network Optimisation on the NGET executive team, where she was responsible for asset management outcomes for the £12 Bn portfolio of assets, engineering and development of all capital investment schemes, as well as real time access to and control of the GB Electricity Transmission system.
She brings to her new role a “passion for the power industry, its performance, evolution and the safety and well-being of all who contribute to it” and more than 15 years of experience across all parts of the energy value chain, from generation, transmission, and distribution to the consumer experience.
Before joining National Grid, she held a variety of roles in E.ON culminating in Head of Offshore UK Wind Operations.
Her work in renewable energy has left Alice with an understanding of how the overall landscape for generation of energy in the UK is changing, having been “involved in that change from coal and gas-fired generation to offshore wind and distributed energy,” she says.
Alice holds a BEng in electrical and electronics engineering and a master’s in management science from University College Dublin. Early in her career, she was an electrical test engineer before moving into R&D, focusing on low-carbon technologies. She spent four years in Slovakia and Germany where she used her expertise in maintenance strategy and change management to implement major local change projects.
She is a former board member of the G+ Global Offshore Wind Health and Safety Organisation, an industry body supported by the Energy Institute which promotes world-class safety performance across the sector and throughout the life cycle of offshore wind farms.
She is a chartered engineer, a former trustee of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and previously won its Young Woman Engineer of the Year award. She recently became a fellow of the royal academy of engineering.
