Keith Redfearn

Keith Redfearn is a Regional General Manager for Digital Energy, a division of GE Energy that provides solutions to modernise and optimise how we generate, move and consume energy. Our global team of more than 5,000 employees are inventing, improving and integrating communications, automation, and power delivery technologies to give the century-old electric infrastructure new capabilities and reliable, efficient performance unheard of just a generation ago.

Digital Energy occupies a unique position in the UK, having provided smart grid solutions and system to 13 out of 14 Distribution Network Operators in Great Britain. GE’s broader expertise in associated technologies such as consumer and industrial appliances and smart meter technology ensures we take an integrated approach to power delivery projects that encompass the full length of the energy chain from generation to consumption.

Born in Newcastle in 1964, Keith was educated in the region and obtained a B.S. degree in electrical & electronic engineering from the University of Huddersfield, and an M.S. degree in computing from the University of Northumbria.

Keith began his career in the industry as a SCADA development engineer over 20 years ago and has remained within the sector since then building his domain/technical expertise. With an extensive knowledge of the European Electricity Infrastructure and the technologies deployed in the Transmission and Distribution Network, Keith has the depth to cover the most complex technical discussions.

As a global advocate of a smarter grid, Keith is on the board of the Friends of the Super Grid (FOSG) which is a organisation promoting and influencing the policy and regulatory framework required to enable large-scale interconnection in Europe.

Over the last couple of years Keith has provided technology briefings to the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), The European Commission and the Assembly of European Regions (AER).

Keith has addressed key audiences at numerous policy and industry events and has been sought by numerous media professionals, contributing to articles written in the Financial Times, Associated Press, Bloomberg and Reuters. His real talent, is the ability to make complicated concepts on energy efficiency and reliability come alive and be easily understandable to those with far less knowledge and technical expertise.