Richard is a Project Manager for SGN within the Future of Energy team in the H100 department at SGN. His main role is to manage a team working to deliver specific projects to contribute towards the success of the
H100 Fife Neighbourhood trial and also projects to generate the evidence to support a positive heat decision policy by the Government for Hydrogen in 2026.
Alex works for Northern Gas Networks (NGN) as an Energy Futures and Net Zero Educator. She has worked for NGN for over 9 years in various roles and projects including Customer Care Officer and the IGEM award winning Hydrogen Homes in Gateshead before moving into her current role.
In her role, she has seen first-hand the challenges around skills and is passionate about inspiring the next generation to join the gas industry.
Alex now works with schools, colleges and education facilities across the north of NGN's network, to provide knowledge around the UK's targets to reach Net Zero and actively promote careers available across the gas industry to the next generation of young people.
Richard is the Director of Safety and Technical Policy at Liquid Gas UK and is responsible for the development of UK Liquid Gas Codes of Practice which is used by regulators for guidance on LPG safety and engineering good practice.
He is the UK LPG representative for engagement with UK Policy Makers and Regulators as well as Europen CEN technical standards committees and European intergovernmental working groups. Richard is a member of the Standards Consultation Forum and takes an active role in the promotion of standards and training within the LPG industry.
Earl began his career as a Gas engineer specialising in installation, service and repair and has worked for Cadent (formerly National Grid) since 2010.
Earl joined as a metering operative and later transitioned into the role of an emergency first call operative. His journey within Cadent has seen him excel in different areas across Smart Metering, Hydrogen conversion and Downstream operations. Earl played a pivotal role in initiating the Services Beyond the Meter programme, where Cadent harnesses its engineers to conduct CMDDA1 investigations and appliance works to support customers in vulnerable situations. These initiatives have too been adopted by other networks in some capacity.
Earl is now working to scale the Services Beyond the Meter programme across the Cadent networks and ensure the programme becomes an embedded and efficient process within Cadent's broader framework.
Trevor is a former England international professional football player with his sporting career having spanned 17 years across various clubs including Burnley, Everton, Glasgow Rangers and Olympique de Marseille. Trevor also played for England as part of the 1986 and 1990 World Cup squads.
Trevor more recently joined Causeway in November 2020 as Mental Health Ambassador to spearhead Causeway’s partnership with Everton in the Community. The aim of the partnership is to highlight and raise awareness of poor mental health in the construction industry and campaign for positive change.
Prof Russell Thomas is a Technical Director in the International engineering and professional services firm WSP. His career path has been an unusual one, which has focussed on how science and engineering has evolved, affecting the society we live in and the natural world around us, and how we can address this. One common theme throughout his career has been gas. After completing a PhD in Nuclear Waste treatment in 1997, Russell worked at the Gas Research centre in Loughborough, researching sustainable ways to address the environmental legacy of the gas industry.
Moving into Engineering Consultancy in 2001, Russell continued research into various aspect of the gas industries legacy, and from this an interest in the history of the gas industry grew and an invitation to join the Institution of Gas Engineers and Manager History Panel followed. One thing has led to another, and Russell is now Chair of the Panel and Co-editor of its publication Historic Gas Times. His in-depth knowledge of the gas industry has led to him writing Historic England’s research report on The Manufactured Gas Industry.
Currently Russell is studying what lessons can be learned from the energy transitions which occurred in the gas industry from the end of World War II to the conversion to natural gas which concluded in the late 1970s.
