Richard Halsey from Energy Systems Catapult talks to Steve Randall about local energy planning and zero-carbon communities.

Listen to Richard Halsey who presented two sessions at FOOTPRINT+ – Energy Systems Catapult, Local Area Energy Planning and Zero-Carbon Communities: Unlocking Potential

Richard leads a multi-disciplinary team at Catapult Energy Systems specialising in supporting innovation and transformational change across the energy system.

Richard joined the Catapult team in 2015 and has led Catapult’s delivery of the national Smart Systems and Heat programme and leads on the delivery of complex clean energy projects and programmes for the public and private sector.

Richard specialises in low carbon and energy system transformation, innovation, techno-economic analysis, planning, sustainable development, and climate change.

I think understanding what the consumer of today and the consumer of the future in terms of house, house buyers, house renters are going to want from their homes, is going to be really important, I think, having the ability to understand the solutions that might be most appropriate in different areas and having the ability to design flexible solutions that are able to respond to different needs in different places, but also to different customer segments is really important.