SSEN Transmission 

Developing future energy scenarios and insights for the North of Scotland to develop and plan electricity network requirements within the GB Net Zero energy pathways.

Lead Manager, Energy Insights

As the leader of the Energy Scenarios team at SSEN Transmission, I manage a multidisciplinary team of analysts, engineers, and data professionals. Our collective efforts are focused on turning complex data into actionable strategies. Our focus is on forecasting and strategic planning, ensuring we stay ahead of future energy demand and supply scenarios. This critical insight informs our planning and investment decisions, enabling SSEN Transmission to navigate the complexities of the energy transition towards Net Zero effectively. 

Key Highlights:
•	Insights: We provide detailed insights into markets, policy, technology, and regulation, supporting informed decision-making and strategic initiatives.
•	Strategic Industry Engagement: Our team builds strategic relationships with the Electricity System Operator (ESO) and other important stakeholders, promoting effective collaboration in energy planning.
•	Innovation in Planning Tools: We are focused on developing new tools and methodologies for energy scenario planning. These innovations, which include spatial targets, improve our strategic planning processes and underscore SSEN Transmission’s role in achieving a Net Zero future.

Energy Scenarios Manager

Mott MacDonald

•	Headed a team of five consultants managing team resource capacity and project prioritisation, learning and development, and building team growth potential through business development, selective recruitment, and software procurement.
•	Provided techno-economic expertise on a diverse range of projects, advising on expansion planning, energy market modelling, and renewable energy integration, which supported strategic investment decisions, including asset transaction due diligence and allocation of innovation funding.
•	Guaranteed delivery of high-quality and high-impact technical reports and presentations, reinforcing the company's position as a trusted advisor to esteemed clients. 
•	Spearheaded the integration of Machine Learning in forecasting; the use of advanced modelling tools, including PLEXOS; and developed custom Excel tools, to enhance predictive analysis capabilities.

Team Leader | Economics & Modelling Consultant

Senior Consultant for net-zero enabling decarbonisation strategies and innovation in upstream energy and downstream power markets through cutting-edge modelling and data analysis. 

•	Directed specialized advisory services, offering technical insights on energy and storage cost analyses, market modelling, and asset due diligence.
•	Managed multiple high-value projects, leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver strategic insights for investment decisions and practical solutions to renewable energy system integration challenges.
•	Advised on the strategic distribution of innovation funds for energy sector innovation projects.
•	Managed high-value complex projects, leading multi-disciplinary teams and expanding the service offering, thereby enriching the client portfolio and the company's market presence.
•	Made key contributions to the development and deployment of smart energy solutions, enhancing the product suite with Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings for the energy sector.

Senior Energy Strategy and Innovation Consultant

Consultant for evaluating strategic policy and investment decisions across upstream energy and downstream power markets focused on delivering innovative approaches to the challenges of 21st century energy systems.  Providing focused and efficient thought leadership services through detailed techno-economic modelling.

Energy Strategy and Innovation Consultant

Specialist Advisory - Advised on and contributed to a large number of  projects providing key technical inputs on Levelised Cost of Energy and Storage Analysis, Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch modelling, Long-term expansion planning and investment decisions, operational modelling for renewable energy integration and island systems, ancillary services, energy storage technologies, multi-criteria decision modelling, due diligence. Built a number of excel-based modelling tools for client use (featuring VBA supported functionality); authored technical reports and literature reviews for high profile clients. 

Project Management - Successfully managed teams of experts on several projects ranging from smaller assignments to larger projects with fee values up to £ 250k, in full compliance with business management systems.

Business Development - Authored a number of successful proposals, up to fee values of £ 200k.

Energy Advisory Consultant

Contributing to the Energy Advisory Business in the Power Sector.

•	Joined multidisciplinary teams of economists, accountants, and engineers, supporting power projects with techno-economic analyses and optimisation modelling.
•	Contributed to the development of bespoke analytic tools and models.

Graduate Economist

The University of Edinburgh

Lecturer on macro- and energy economic questions of sustainability.

Presented outcomes of Master's thesis at the 1st Vienna Conference on Pluralism in Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Guest Lecturer

ThyssenKrupp Nirosta GmbH

•	Conducted economic and industry analysis to inform strategic sales management and planning for multinational corporation.
•	Performed process and data analysis to derive actionable market insights.
•	Implemented analytical findings to drive sales growth and market expansion.

Sales Services Intern

IAA Covent Garden

•	Managed and maintained data integrity for central business information systems.
•	Conducted comprehensive research to support the production and dissemination of online publications.
•	Facilitated client relations by engaging the community of existing and prospective partners.
•	Organized and conducted meetings to foster business relationships and promote membership growth.

Marketing Intern

Schoellerwerk GmbH & Co. KG

•	Served as a management apprentice in an industrial business, rotating through various departments.
•	Gained comprehensive exposure to all facets of business management.
•	Applied hands-on experience in operational, financial, and strategic departments.
•	Complemented on-the-job training with formal vocational school education.

Industrial Management Assistant

After a fulfilling period focused on family and personal growth, I've resumed my professional journey, now with SSEN Transmission. I'm honoured to contribute to their mission of developing the network essential for Scotland and the UK's Net Zero ambitions. 

As an Energy Economist with a solid foundation of over 8 years in power market modelling—particularly in production cost modelling—I bring extensive experience with PLEXOS to the table. My professional journey has been driven by applied linear programming for optimization using financial and economic appraisal methods, specifically in energy-related decision-making.

I take pride in my analytical abilities and my deep understanding of energy markets, energy generation technologies, and power system operation. As a key advisor to public and private sector clients globally—including the Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy in the UK and the Abu Dhabi Transmission System Operator—I have championed the use of innovation and data-led decision-making.

I've developed proprietary tools for forecasting and optimization. Recently, I have ventured into the realm of AI to learn how to effectively utilise this new technology to innovate in advancing the energy sector.

Christian Kaufmann

Michael Liebreich

Michael Liebreich is Chairman and CEO of Liebreich Associates, through which he provides advisory and speaking services.

He is Senior Contributor to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the world’s leading provider of research on clean energy and transport, which he founded in 2004. He led it up to its sale to Bloomberg in 2009 and beyond, acting as Chairman of the Advisory Board until 2017.

Michael serves on the UK Department of International Trade's Advisory Board on Overseas Investment in Infrastructure. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board of Ecovillages, a Swiss charity he founded to focus on sustainability of mountain communities and is Visiting Professor at Imperial College Energy Futures Lab. He also chairs smart mobility startup Zeelo and is a technology investor.

Between 2012 and 2018 Michael served as a Board Member of Transport for London. He was a member of the high-level Advisory Group for the UN Secretary General’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative and Founder of Finance for Resilience (FiRe). He was the Chairman for ten years of St. Mark’s Hospital Foundation, a charity supporting research in colorectal medicine. 

Michael is a three-time finalist in the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, and winner of Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renewable Energy Association and GreenBusiness.

Earlier in his career, Michael acted as Deputy Managing Director of Associated Press Television and Founding Director of Sports News Television and was UK Managing Director of Groupe Arnault’s technology investment arm. Before that, he was an associate and manager at McKinsey & Co.

Michael graduated in Engineering from the University of Cambridge with 1st class honours, winning the Ricardo Prize for Thermodynamics and Christ’s College Wyatt Prize. He has an MBA from Harvard, where he was a Harkness Fellow and Baker Scholar. He was a member of the British Olympic Ski Team in 1992.

To book Michael as a speaker, please contact jo@liebreichassociates.com.

Co-Founder

This is very cool - showing how countries might be transitioning from the primordial soup of bioenergy to the sunlit uplands of electricity via the trough of fossil. A simplification, of course, but what a visual!

Speaker, analyst, advisor, investor in the future economy. Host of Cleaning Up, podcast on leadership in an age of climate change. Managing partner, Ecopragma Capital.

Open article: Global Energy Transition Ternary Chart 1971–2040 by claude.ai

Global Energy Transition Ternary Chart 1971–2040

A fascinating piece by Adam Morton on the transformation of Australia's grid. In the last quarter of 2025, renewables provided more than 50% of electricity, and in last week's heatwave, solar met more than 30% of demand - wildly beyond what the many strident nay-sayers said was possible.

As Adam points out: 
1) "Five years ago renewables provided about 26% of generation. A decade ago it was less than 15%, with solar on less than 2%." 
2) All this has "coincided with a 44% fall in wholesale electricity prices compared with the same period in 2024."

Mindblowing.

I'm going to be heading back to Australia this May after an absence of a few years. The key question I want to answer is whether further progress on clean electricity is going to drive power prices down, or up. If it drives prices down, then the Renewable Superpower thesis will start to be proven, and Europe will have a template to follow. If more expensive, we're all in for tough times, one way or another.

Watch this space. And do make sure you subscribe to Cleaning Up Podcast on YouTube and/or podcast, and sign up for our newly revamped newsletter on CleaningUp.live, so you can be part of the unfolding debate.

Open article: Australia’s grid now relies on renewable energy as much as coal. Those who doubted it look foolish by theguardian.com

Australia’s grid now relies on renewable energy as much as coal. Those who doubted it look foolish

In this week's episode of Cleaning Up Podcast, Bryony Worthington sat down with US-based climate scientist Zeke Hausfather for an update on all things climate science. 

Zeke is extremely grounded, no exaggerations and fake scenarios. But oh, the comments on YouTube already!

Ignore the climate science culture wars for a moment. Here's an update on the actual climate science - being discussed by two people who really know what they are talking about: https://lnkd.in/gUugP6CP

Open video: The State of the Climate 2026 | Ep242: Zeke Hausfather on youtube.com

The State of the Climate 2026 | Ep242: Zeke Hausfather

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To change this, we have decided to conduct a live experiment: RIFF (Research and Invention For the Future- RIFF.science) on new ways to fund science and make ideas emerge. We’re on a 6-month sprint with @zinc Innovation Partners to fundraise and develop the model.

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Why your input matters:
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