Speakers
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Joe Rippon Head of Structural Financing
Joe has been with the Sizewell C project for over five years where he is Head of Financial Structuring and works on a number of key aspects of the funding and financing arrangements. This includes leading the development of a novel approach to meeting the new nuclear financing challenge – the Regulated Asset Base model. This funding model and investor proposition it entails will allow Sizewell C to bring new types of investors into a nuclear construction project for the first time and support the project’s ability to raise the equity and debt capital it requires to fund construction. Joe is heavily involved in other aspects of the financing arrangements including engagement with credit rating agencies, potential investors and export credit arrangements. Here he brings together the revenue arrangements, financial structure and strengths of the project to promote the project with the financial community.
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Julia Pyke Managing Director
Julia is responsible for Sizewell C successfully becoming a regulated utility company delivering the objectives set by HMG, becoming finaceable, managing public money, and meeting the needs of its shareholders, lenders and other stakeholders including those local to the site.
Prior to this, Julia was Head of Power and Renewables at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP working on arrangements for HPC from 2006, and advised on the formation on the NDA and spent time on secondment.
Julia is a Fellow of the Energy Institue and of the Nuclear Institue.
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James Rushton Mergers and Acquisitions Consultant
James works on the Sizewell C Capital Raise, including the regulatory, contractual and financing arrangements that support this. He has over 25 years’ experience across both the private and public sectors. Originally an investment banker he has worked on all types of corporate M&A as well debt and equity raise, including in the infrastructure sector. Since 2012 he has been working in low carbon energy initially in the Department of Energy & Climate Change where, as part of Energy Market Reform, he was Project Director for the Hinkley Point C project. He was also part of the Executive Management of the Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC), responsible for managing all the Contracts for Difference for all the technologies of low carbon generation, including for Hinkley Point. While at the LCCC he also supported the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero on the development of the regulatory support models for Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage and Hydrogen.
