Setting a global standard for hourly energy certificates

Toby is founder of The EnergyTag Initiative and Director of International at OVO. He has a PhD in solar energy from Imperial College London, and an undergraduate in Physics from Cambridge University. His previous roles include Managing Director at VCharge (acquired by OVO) and cofounder at Engensa (acquired by Hanergy). He also has experience working for General Electric and Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

EnergyTag coordinator Caroline Gentry is a freelance energy communications consultant and MBA candidate at Sussex University. Caroline spent many years developing power, natural gas and environmental attribute market indexes in the London and Washington DC/Houston offices of Argus Media, a leading price reporting agency. Recently she was editor of Engerati, focussing on electricity sector digitalisation and the clean energy transition.

EnergyTag Council and Advisory Board Chair Phil Moody has advised government and industry on energy markets since the late 1980s. He worked with stakeholders across Europe to create the voluntary RECS certificate market and founded the Association of Issuing Bodies, of which he was Secretary General from 2002 until this summer. The AIB now has 29 members, each appointed by an EU member state as the body responsible for its guarantee of origin system. The AIB is the leading enabler of international energy certificate schemes through the European Energy Certificate System – EECS – of which Phil was a co-author, and from which the CEN/CENELEC standard for guarantees of origin was developed. While stepping down as Secretary General, Phil retains an active interest in the ongoing development of the AIB, EECS and GOs.