Peter R. Styles

Peter Styles acts since September 2024 as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Energy Company of Ukraine (ECU). ECU was incorporated by the Ukrainian government in 2022 to conduct operations in the electricity and gas wholesale markets, with a view to serving key national industries and safeguarding national energy security. Since the beginning of 2024 Peter has additionally served as Executive Advisor to the Zero Emissions Traders Alliance (ZETA). In 2002 Peter founded Stratos European Policy and its offshoot Stratos Energy Consulting, where he still fulfils the role of principal consultant. From 2010 he has held an appointment as Honorary Lecturer in the Social Sciences Faculty at Dundee University, linked with the university’s Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Minerals Law and Policy. From 2000 till 2023 Peter was a Member of the Board of the European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET, now “Energy Traders Europe”) and from 2001 till 2022 a Member of the Board of EFET Deutschland (Verband der deutschen Energiehaendler). His corporate career up to 2002 encompassed project work in upstream oil and gas, power plant development, the management of a gas pipeline business and the establishment of the first truly independent pan-European power and gas trading business. Through Stratos Peter advises clients on the energy transition, markets in carbon emission allowances, markets in renewable and low carbon attributes of some energy products and electricity and gas market design. He also provides analysis of overall EU policy trends and developments. Clients have included utility companies, independent commodity trading firms, investment managers, energy exchanges, hedge funds, national governments, the European Commission, energy media publishers and conference organisers. He is a lawyer by profession and speaks French and German. Peter’s work in the role of Executive Director in EFET over a period of more than twenty years up to 2023 included chairmanship of the Electricity Committee, Chairmanship of the Carbon Neutrality Strategy Group and oversight of external advocacy and communication. He was responsible in the first decade of the millennium for expanding EFET activities from western Europe into eastern and south-eastern Europe, for starting the Market Supervision Committee and for starting an Emissions Trading Task Force. He also led EFET work on renewable energy and the energy transition. At the end of the previous millennium Peter had been appointed Head of the Enron Delegation to the European Union located in Brussels. The office was opened to deal with Enron Europe’s EU competition case interventions, its co-operation with the European Commission and pan-European industry associations, and overall political relations in continental Europe. This responsibility was in addition to Peter’s previous appointment as Vice President, European Government and Regulatory Affairs. He had before that held senior commercial management positions in London, working on development of electricity generation projects, energy business financing arrangements and gas transportation. Originally Peter had been hired in 1992 to establish a Legal Department for Enron Europe, the first outside of North America within the Enron group, building it to a team of six in-house lawyers by 1995. From 1994 till 2003 (when it was successfully wound up) he also served as senior trustee of the Enron Europe Pension Plan. During the period 1993 to 1997 Peter was additionally nominated as a member of the Council of the Bar of England and Wales to represent the interests of barristers employed in businesses. For two years within this period he served as a member of the General Committee of the Council, to represent all employed barristers in various fields. For three years up to 1992, Peter was a New Business Analyst and then a Business Development Manager, for Dow Europe, located near Zurich in Switzerland, working in the thermoplastics business. He had transferred from the position of the London office Legal Adviser for Dow Chemical, Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals and Dow Europe Oil and Gas, which he held for five years from 1984. From 1978 to 1984, Peter was employed in various parts of Imperial ChemicaI Industries, initially in the Company Secretary's Department at Head Office in London. He moved temporarily to ICI Plastics in Hertfordshire in 1980 as Legal Assistant. From 1982 to 1984 he was engaged as a Legal Adviser with ICI Pharmaceuticals (later to become AstraZeneca) in Cheshire. Peter received an MA Hons. in Law and Modern Languages from Cambridge University in 1977 and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in July 1978.