Flexitricity Celebrates International Women's Day - Women in Energy

We felt it was important to highlight the multitude of roles and opportunities for women in the energy industry. So, who better to speak to, than the women already working here in Flexitricity.

Name: Lisa Perrin

Job title: Project Delivery Manager

Role: Managing the full customer journey from initial engagement, contracts, onboarding and after-sales account management.

What’s the best thing about working in the Energy Industry?:

• Driven by problem solving. In my role as PDM, I get faced with challenges everyday and really enjoy being able to help solve these for our Energy Partners.

• It is a complex, technical industry. I love that no two days are the same and I am constantly learning new things in this role.
• Being part of the energy transition – helping Energy Partners manage their electricity and gas supply and harnessing flexibility in the energy usage to enable a greener and more cost effective energy system for all consumers.
• Flexitricity allows me to be part of an innovate company that has so many great and ambitious individuals working together for a single goal.

Name: Louise Maclean

Job title: Marketing and Communications Manager

Role: Managing the development and supervision of all marketing and communications strategy for Flexitricity. 

What’s the best thing about working in the Energy Industry?

• By raising the profile of Flexitricity, I educate all stakeholders about the benefits of flexible energy and all the benefits associated with demand side response.
• It’s a massive privilege to be part of the energy transition to Net-Zero.
• Flexitricity is such an interesting place to work. No two days are the same and I’m constantly learning alongside such a talented, smart group of people
• If you think about it, electricity is one of the closest things to magic we use every day of lives. You rarely give a second thought to how it works, where it comes from and what we can do to use it more efficiently. It’s just cool!

Name: Jill Cox

Job Title: Balancing Services Manager

Role: Contractual accountability for delivery of reserve and response services to NGESO and responsibility for Capacity Market delivery

What’s the best thing about working in the Energy Industry?:

Supporting the drive across energy providers to deliver Net Zero through smarter use of renewal, clean and distributed assets.

Bio: A Capacity Market expert with 10 years of experience in the energy sector with Flexitricity. Jill takes responsibility for the NGESO relationship, liaising on all service delivery and performance matters, contractual reporting and innovation projects. As an exceptional relationship manager, Jill also coordinates third party suppliers in the power supply area of Flexitricity.

Name: Claire Addison

Job Title: Head of Regulation

Role: I lead on Flexitricity’s work to ensure energy policies, regulations and market designs accelerate the deployment of new flexible energy opportunities, and to ensure that Flexitricity is at the forefront of monetising these opportunities for our Energy Partners.

What’s the best thing about working in the Energy Industry?: 

Energy policy is massive, complicated, a huge cost for most people and businesses, and a substantial contributor to climate change. Working every day with people who are making that better is really gratifying, particularly as we see concrete changes so that flexibility becomes a better source of revenue for businesses and consumers who switch to clean energy options .

Bio: Claire spent four years working for environmental NGOs on climate change policy, and soon realised her heart lay in decarbonising the electricity sector. For the last nine years she has influenced policy makers, regulators and investors across Northern Europe to even the playing field for low-carbon technologies including energy storage, wind and demand-side flexibility. Prior to her three years at Flexitricity, she worked for Fortune 200 energy company, The AES Corporation. Claire recently completed her Executive MBA from Warwick Business School, writing her final dissertation on domestic heat flexibility.