Rising Star (utility partner)

This award is open to any woman who has worked in the utilities industry for fewer than five years and demonstrates huge potential, while making a significant contribution to their organisation and to the industry as a whole and demonstrating an ongoing commitment to innovation.

The contenders

Charlotte Brown

Flogas Britain

Charlotte has made a transformative impact on one of the most business-critical functions at Flogas Britain in just over two years with the business. Progressing rapidly from Planning Manager to Primary Distribution Manager, she now leads the operational heartbeat of the company’s LPG supply chain. Through enhanced forecasting, improved supplier collaboration and stronger planning governance, Charlotte has delivered 99% accuracy between planned and actual supply, significantly improving service reliability across the national depot network. Alongside operational excellence, she champions development and representation in the industry, inspiring colleagues and young people while demonstrating clear potential as a future leader.

Daisy Chapman

Barhale

In under five years within construction and a year in utilities, Daisy has bridged the gap between complex technical design and visionary project management, delivering high-impact utility solutions that prioritise both sustainability and efficiency. Known for going "above and beyond" her remit, she has been involved in innovative workflows that reduced project lead times while maintaining rigorous safety standards. Daisy’s unique blend of technical expertise and natural leadership marks her as a rising star, committed to evolving the utilities industry for a more resilient, greener future.

Eloise Blaxall

Skewb

Eloise Blaxall is fast emerging as one of the utilities sector’s most promising leaders. Since joining Skewb Ltd in 2024 as Quality and Compliance Manager, she has transformed compliance from a reactive obligation into a business-wide culture of ownership, improvement and accountability. By embedding governance, strengthening assurance and introducing sustainability as a key component of business strategy, Eloise is helping shape how modern utilities organisations operate. Contributing to board-level forums while completing an Improvement Leadership apprenticeship, she combines technical rigour with strategic foresight. This marks her out as a future industry leader driving responsible innovation and lasting organisational change.

Holly McCann

EY

Holly is a Manager in the Operations for Net Zero Practice within the supply chain and operations team. Since joining EY as a graduate, once her initial training was completed she started in the consulting team in a change management and organisational design capacity. Since 2022 she has been focused on operating and business model design focused on energy and utilities within the sustainability arena, helping clients respond to the challenges of decarbonisation and net zero commitments.

Megan Opie

Barhale

Since joining the utilities industry in 2022 with no construction experience, Megan Opie has become a highly regarded Planner within Barhale and Anglian Water’s (AW) @one Alliance. The first Planner on the Barhale and @one graduate programmes, she introduced new planning methods, upskilled teams across multiple disciplines and leads programmes on major Anglian Water schemes. Beyond her role, Megan champions future talent through STEM outreach, women-in-construction panels and as Vice Chair of CECA Southern NextGen. Trusted and endlessly driven, Megan is shaping the industry’s future, an exceptional rising star already demonstrating the leadership potential to define her future.

Molly Nesbitt

Baringa Partners

Molly has been exceptional at Baringa, building on her early experience at Ofgem to help clients turn complex regulatory and policy developments into practical operational change. She has become a standout expert on connection reforms - a critical enabler of Net Zero - and is recognised across industry for her deep technical knowledge and leadership. Molly has represented the ENA as a speaker on Connections Reform and consistently delivered high‑quality policy and capability outputs across the full connections reform lifecycle for SSEN and NESO. She combines deep expertise with a highly personable style, making her impact both distinctive and lasting.

Taline Filipovic

Sirio

Taline Filipovic is Senior Associate and Head of Innovation at Sirio, where she developed a structured innovation function focused on delivering inclusive, customer-centred outcomes in the energy transition. She joined the utilities sector in June 2025, transitioning from commodities and investment roles. In her first year, she secured over £700,000 in funded initiatives and is leading industry-first, data-driven approaches redesigning how households, particularly those in vulnerable circumstances, participate in the transition. Alongside shaping innovation capability, she fostered collaboration and championed mentorship for new entrants to the sector. Taline’s work reflects a broader ambition to deliver a more inclusive energy transition.