ENERGY ANALYST
Rebecca Beresford
Hello, I'm Rebecca and I work as an Energy Analyst at EDF Energy. Basically, I help choose which power stations they should build in the future. I rely on my science and maths knowledge every day, as I need to understand how coal, gas, biomass and renewable energies work and how they effect the environment so that I can advise EDF Energy to make the right decision.
I've worked on some really interesting projects such as an offshore wind farm in Teesside, which now provides thousands of homes with green power. It's good to know that my background in science and maths has such a huge impact and means I can help fight climate change!
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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:My name's Rebecca, and I work for EDF Energy in London, and I spend my days deciding whether or not we should build new power stations.
For my GCSEs I studied maths and English and computing, French, and I also did three separate sciences.
Normally, I have one or two big projects going on in the background, so I'll spend a lot of time working with the teams who are actually designing the power stations, and then it's my role to work out, on balance, which one it would be better to do, and to make a recommendation to senior managers.
I like feeling like I'm making a difference. Last year, I proved that if we did a number of different things which would be quite challenging, we could manage to reduce the carbon intensity of our generation by 60% by 2020. That's 60% numbers being used in our TV advertising campaign, it's been in the newspapers, it's been on the radio, and whenever I see it I think that's my work, I did that number and I think that's very good.
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