How to win awards and influence policy

Mace | 12th March 2026 | Awards, Lobbying, Political Consultants
Greg Rosen/image SEC Newgate
Greg Rosen/image SEC Newgate

Greg Rosen, senior counsel at SEC Newgate, led the team which won the best consultancy campaign award at the 2026 PRCA awards. In a deep-dive, Rosen tells The Mace the secrets of his team's success behind the Fairer Energy Future campaign.

SEC Newgate UK, working with an alliance of businesses including energy generators, investors and energy users, ensured that a damaging change to how the UK’s energy market operated was prevented and future energy investment and jobs across the country were preserved. Our 'Fairer Energy Future' campaign succeeded against a well-funded high-profile campaign from businesses which stood to profit from a more complex energy retail system, alongside champions within whitehall, for whom the proposed change appeared expedient. In six months, SECNewgate built a campaign across digital, social and traditional media, building on direct public policy engagement, harnessing hard-hitting research to bring clarity to a complex policy dilemma. The UK Government’s Review of Electricity Market Arrangements (REMA) proposed a shift to zonal energy pricing in a move that threatened investment in renewable infrastructure, to undermine impact energy-intensive industries such as steel and glass, and worsen t...

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