Clare Duffy is a chartered engineer with over 20 years’ experience in the electricity industry. In ESB Networks, the teams that Clare manage are responsible for planning network access for demand or generation/RES/Flexibility customers who submit an application to connect to the distribution system. Previous roles have included ESB UK General Manager; Operations Manager for ESB International; Head of the Strategic Consultancy Group; project management roles with ESB International on power infrastructure developments in Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East and a power system protection engineer with ALSTOM in the USA and UK. In addition to her roles with ESB, Clare is a non-executive director of Elexon (organisation responsible for the administration of the Balancing and Settlement Code in the GB electricity market with settlement transactions c£1.7bn per annum). She sits on the Executive Board of Engineers Ireland. She was a member of the Advisory Group for Wave Energy Scotland between 2015 - 2017. She has post-graduate qualifications in Accounting, Finance, Marketing and Management.