**Park Royal Business Group Breakfast Forum** 

Theme: INFRASTRUCTURE 

Venue: Ace Cafe

Date: Thursday 4 September

Park Royal Business Group Breakfast Forums are a space to network and discuss pertinent issues with fellow businesses from Park Royal and further afield over a cooked breakfast, tea and coffee. Join us either in person or online for our third session of the year where we will be discussing infrastructure in Park Royal (more details to follow).

This event is usually oversubscribed, so please register your interest now before space runs out!

Getting There and Parking: There is adequate parking at the Ace Cafe. The nearest tube stops are Stonebridge Park or Alperton. The nearest bus stops are Beresford Avenue (112, 224, 440) or Heather Park Drive (79, 224).

AGENDA

9.00 am - Cooked buffet breakfast, juice and coffee/tea

9.30 am Welcome from Andrew Dakers, CEO PRBG

Roundtable introduction from attendees

9.35 am Harry Britten - Strategic Network Development Engineer - SSE

Update on the strategic development plan for Willesden / LPN EHV network

9.50 am Q&A

9.55 am Tim Ellis - Senior Connections Manager - HEMIKO

An introduction to the Old Oak and Park Royal Energy Network (OPEN)  - a new district heat network Hemiko is developing with OPDC

OPEN will harness low-carbon waste heat from nearby data centres and distribute it via a network of underground pipes from Hemiko's energy centre on Minerva Road.
As well as providing space heating and hot water, Hemiko want to help industrial facilities decarbonise their process heat. This could be achieved by upgrading their 80deg flow temperature heat to suit individual business process temperatures or establishing a shared loop where the two systems exchange heat based on supply/demand dynamics. 

10.10 am Q&A

10.15 am Acacia Hasler - Principal Transport Planner - OPDC

With Tom Cardis - Director of Planning - OPDC

Update on general transport proposals in Park Royal including the lowering of Old Oak Common lane

10:30 am Q&A

10.40 am Closing remarks – Sarah Spateri, Park Royal Business Group Manager

10.45 am – Optional networking for those at the Ace Cafe

11 am - Depart

Our Speakers

Acacia Hasler, Principal Transport Planner - OPDC

Acacia is a Principal Transport Planner at the OPDC, with over 10 years of experience in developing and delivering sustainable transport projects in a local government context, including cycle lanes, mobility hubs, healthy school streets and projects to improve public realm and street greening. Acacia is based in the Planning Policy Team at the OPDC, where she provides transport input into planning applications, policy and projects. Acacia is currently leading on the development of proposals to improve walking, cycling, road safety and public realm on the Park Royal “Big X” and on the North Acton Gyratory.

Tim Ellis, Senior Connections Manager - HEMIKO

Tim is the Senior Connections Manager at Hemiko. Tim joined the UK’s heat networks industry in 2023 after relocating from New Zealand, where he began his career as a mechanical engineer in the energy sector before moving into sales and business development.

Harry Britten, Strategic Network Development Engineer - SSE

Harry joined SSEN in Autumn 2022 as an Analyst in the System Planning team developing High Voltage network models, following this he moved to the Whole System team in the Distribution System Operation directorate where he has worked for the last 2 years.

As a Strategic Development Engineer, Harry's role is focused on long-term capacity requirements of the distribution network. Identification of system needs and high-level options to resolve these needs is carried out primarily through our stakeholder informed Distribution Future Energy Scenarios (DFES) and production of Strategic Development Plans (SDPs).

Tickets

• £15 +VAT for PRBG members/associate members 

• £20 +VAT for non-members

Please ensure you mark if you are a PRBG/associate member to receive your discount at checkout.

For any queries, do not hesitate to get in touch with sarah.spateri@westlondon.com

For arrangements regarding accessibility and the event please email amy.jiang@westlondon.com

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