Speaker Group: UK Solar Summit Speakers 2025

Xander Penney

Xander Penney is a Director at Alight, responsible for building out the solar and battery storage capacity in the UK&I. Xander is an ex-strategy consultant with a background in mechanical […]

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Ross Grier

Ross oversees and is a member of the investment committee for the listed fund NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) and NextPower UK ESG, a private fund focused on unsubsidised UK solar […]

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Sonia Dunlop

Sonia Dunlop is CEO of the Global Solar Council and has worked in the solar PV industry, renewables policy and climate finance space for almost 15 years. She has previously […]

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Monika Paplaczyk

Monika joined Thrive in 2007 whilst the company was managed by Triodos Bank. In her role as Investment Director, Monika leads the investment team in the originating, development, acquisition and […]

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Mark Noone

Mark has been in solar development since 2011, holding roles at Anesco and Lightsource bp. He has been involved in the development of a 1GW solar pipeline, 200MW of which […]

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Mark Wakeford

Mark is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, with over thirty years’ experience, mostly at director level and mostly as MD for a large regional contractor.  Mark uses […]

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Rosalind Smith Maxwell

Ms. Smith-Maxwell has successfully advised on more than 4GW of renewable energy power projects including onshore wind, solar and biomass technologies. Her clean technology expertise includes behind the meter storage […]

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