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| John Shedden |
john.shedden@lumis.co.uk |
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John has 11 years' experience in the electricity industry.
He spent 5 years at Scottish Power where, as Head of
Power Purchasing and Pricing in the Supply Division
and subsequently Back Office Manager in the Energy Trading
Centre, he was responsible for areas as diverse as CfD
trading, embedded generation contracts, pricing for
direct sales customers, electricity & gas settlements,
contracts for sale of power in Scotland and the administration
of the Scottish Renewables Obligation. With ScottishPower’s
takeover of Manweb he was responsible for the assimilation
of Manweb’s trading function and became a director
of the Non-Fossil Purchasing Agency |
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| John joined British Energy in 1997 as
Commercial Development Manager. He played a leading
role in the acquisition of UK generation and supply
assets, including the successful acquisition of the
2GW Eggborough power station together with the acquisition
and subsequent sale of the Swalec supply business. Associated
with these deals, he was responsible for negotiating
coal contracts for Eggborough and a long-term 10TWh
p.a. PPA with SSE. He led teams in bidding for hydro
and fossil assets in Canada, was heavily involved in
business development in the Czech Republic and had co-responsibility
for the sale of the 6GW Bruce Power nuclear station
in 2003. |
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| From early 2003 to 2004, John was Head
of British Energy Renewables (British Energy’s
renewables development subsidiary), a director of British
Energy Renewables Ltd, Offshore Wind Power Ltd and Lewis
Wind Power Ltd. During this time he led the negotiation
of a major renewables joint venture and the sale of
Offshore Wind Power Ltd to Centrica. Other highlights
include the achievement of planning consent and successful
capital grant application for the Inner Dowsing offshore
wind farm. He is currently a director of the Highlands
and Islands Enterprise Community Energy Company. |
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| John has an honours degree in economic
science from Aberdeen University and an MSc in economics
from the London School of Economics. Prior to joining
the electricity industry, he worked for 8 years as a
government economist in HM Treasury, DTI, OFT and on
secondment to the Independent Television Commission. |
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