Full Name
Sara Vaughan
Job Title
Chair
Company
Elexon
Speaker Biography
Sara Vaughan is Chair of the Board of Elexon and Chair of the Balancing and Settlement Code Panel.
Elexon manages the wholesale market arrangements and provision of data. Elexon is implementing half-hourly settlement, and will deliver the flexibility market facilitator role from late 2025. Both of these reforms will play a key part in enabling Clean Power 2030.
Sara was previously at E.ON UK, where she was Executive Director for Strategy and Regulation and, latterly for Political and Regulatory Affairs, after holding a number of senior roles in legal, regulatory affairs, energy policy and CSR. Sara’s background was as a competition and regulatory lawyer at Slaughter and May before moving to Powergen (later E.ON).
Sara is a Non-Executive Director of the North Sea Transition Authority, a member of the Energy Advisory Panel at the Energy Institute, where she is a Fellow, and Steering Group Co-chair in Icebreaker One’s work on Open Energy.
Sara is an independent non-executive director at South Staffordshire Water Plc and will take on the role of Chair from 1 May 2025.
She was a Board Member of the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy, which later merged into Energy UK, where she was an alternate Board member and was a member of the CBI West Midlands Regional Council.
Elexon manages the wholesale market arrangements and provision of data. Elexon is implementing half-hourly settlement, and will deliver the flexibility market facilitator role from late 2025. Both of these reforms will play a key part in enabling Clean Power 2030.
Sara was previously at E.ON UK, where she was Executive Director for Strategy and Regulation and, latterly for Political and Regulatory Affairs, after holding a number of senior roles in legal, regulatory affairs, energy policy and CSR. Sara’s background was as a competition and regulatory lawyer at Slaughter and May before moving to Powergen (later E.ON).
Sara is a Non-Executive Director of the North Sea Transition Authority, a member of the Energy Advisory Panel at the Energy Institute, where she is a Fellow, and Steering Group Co-chair in Icebreaker One’s work on Open Energy.
Sara is an independent non-executive director at South Staffordshire Water Plc and will take on the role of Chair from 1 May 2025.
She was a Board Member of the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy, which later merged into Energy UK, where she was an alternate Board member and was a member of the CBI West Midlands Regional Council.
