Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the speaker: Yiu-Shing Pang, UK Power Networks

SmartCitiesWorld (SCW): What is the single most important action cities can take to address the climate crisis?

Yiu-Shing Pang (YSP): Coordinated effort – lots of organisations are working towards common goals, there are synergies and learnings that we can all benefit from. Cities are naturally complex with dozens of stakeholders including utilities, local government, businesses and residents, and so is coordination of our activities.

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SCW: Why have you become a partner of the Cities Climate Action Summit on 26-27 June? What are you personally most excited to learn or discuss?

YSP: Finding out what other organisation and individuals are doing in the data space. I want to walk away from this summit inspired with new ideas and opportunities to explore.

SCW: Could you share a specific example of a successful climate initiative in your organisation that could inspire others?

YSP:  Our Open Data programme has been a success – we were fast to launch it, and continue to share our learning, experience and advise fellow network operators in GB and abroad, and even beyond the energy sector. We recognise our role in providing open data to facilitate our customers’ plans – whether it is to connect a solar farm or to install electric vehicle charge points. We are also learning from other private companies through our membership to the Industry Data for Society Partnership.