The future of energy
From Alistair Phillips-Davies, Chief Executive of FTSE 100 utility company SSE
When it comes to climate change, no one has all the answers. But it’s by working together that we’ll have the best chance of making a positive difference.
We’re fortunate to be connected to some of the most brilliant people and organisations in the world. So we’ve been speaking to a range of experts, in fields from science to business, to find out how they’re going about reaching net zero.
As part of an exclusive series of interviews for the Financial Times we chatted with Alistair Phillips-Davies, Chief Executive of FTSE 100 utility company SSE.
As a taster for the full interview, here are five things we learned from Alistair about how evolving an energy supplier, from carbon-emitter to net-zero hero, means playing the long game …
“Talking to people you get an enormous amount back from that. Every minute you spend out with staff in depots and planning rooms is hugely beneficial in terms of alignment. We also get ide-as from employees. It pays to trust the people at the edges of organisation to tell you how things are.”
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