Industrial Strategy for the UK Energy System

Speaker: Paul Stein OBE,  CEO Floral Energy, Ex-Chair at Rolls Royce SMR

Organised by the Cambridge University Energy Technology Society (CUETS). 

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​Discussion on the UK energy system and the system level challenges required to bring about energy security, meet net zero targets and achieve low energy costs. Paul previously addressed CUETS when Chairman of Rolls-Royce SMR, discussing nuclear energy and its vital role in global decarbonisation - he’ll remind of the key points during this discussion. We’ll also be joined by Jess Poole from Equinor who will be telling us about developments in the Direct Air Capture (DAC) of Carbon Dioxide.

​Paul Stein CBE. Paul is the Chief Executive Officer of Floral Energy Limited, a clean energy company which was founded in 2024 to serve the energy needs of large data centres and other high reliability energy requirements. Paul has had a broadly based career in telecommunications, defence, aerospace and energy. He was Managing Director of Roke Manor Research until 2006, then Director General of Science and Technology at the Ministry of Defence, Chief Technology Officer of Rolls-Royce plc until 2022, then chaired its spin-out business Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactors. Paul is a Board member of iRocket LLC, a space launch business, an advisor to Zap Energy LLC, a Seattle based fusion company, and mentors several start-ups. He has been appointed to the National Cyber Advisory Board and served on the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology from 2020 to 2024.