ALL-ENERGY 2012 – THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Not long before we can reveal the conference grid showing exactly what will be happening when, but we need to ensure that everyone organising or having input to the overall feel of a session has had a chance to comment on when ‘their’ session will be held. 

However, we can most certainly whet your appetite with information on numbers of sessions and some of the topics. Remember too that offshore maintenance; and smart energy (energy efficiency, energy management, onsite renewables and microgeneration will have their own seminar theatres on the exhibition floor). 

Plenary session on opening day (23 May):  The conference will get off to a flying start with keynote addresses from Charles Hendry MP, Minister of State for Energy, DECC and Fergus Ewing MSP, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism, Scottish Government as well as heavyweight industry input. 

Thereafter it will break into seven parallel sessions. 

Topics coming under the conference spotlight in these sessions are:

Offshore wind – seven sessions including

1. Scene setting
2. Cost reduction
   
3. The European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre
4. Supply chain + The Iberian supply chain
5. Technology updatesAs well as a Marine Scotland session; and ‘Offshore Renewables - On the Shoulders of Giants:  Building on The Experience from the Wider Energy Sector’ (a session being organised by TWI Ltd (Scotland)); and (see foot of page) an associated event ‘Addressing Environmental Risk for the Marine Renewables Sector’ organised by

Onshore wind – two sessions

Public perception – two sessions

Wave and tidal – six sessions including:

• The outcome of the MCT environmental studies
• South West Marine Energy Park
• Four other sessions – more information later this week!
• As well as the Marine Scotland session (and the likelihood that RenewableUK will organise a wave and tidal workshop the day before All-Energy opens)

Renewable energy growth in China and the Far East – what this means for UK – a UKTI session

Microgeneration and onsite renewables

Specially for the farming community:

Bioenergy in all its guises – two sessions

District heating – organised by CHPA

Hydrogen and fuel cells

Sustainable transport

Power storage – the ‘holy grail’

Nanotechnology and key challenges in energy storage

Hydropower – organised by the BHA

Carbon capture and storage – two sessions

Grid:

• Intermittency – organised by The IET
• The big picture – including a Friends of the Supergrid presentation

Nuclear – business opportunities in new build and life extensions

Scottish initiatives

Islands and 'energy islands' – organised by Cleantech Investor

Industry perspectives on financing

Changing the power landscape of Scotland – organised by IPA

Frameworks for support and Tapping into Europe

Communities and renewables – two sessions; as well as International year of the co-operative

Geothermal

And … Yes we may still have some surprises up our corporate sleeve - keep coming back to this page for an update!
 

There will be an ever-growing programme of associated events. So far on the agenda we have: 

PRE-SHOW – 22 May

RenewableUK Connect
Central Aberdeen, Tuesday 22 May in the evening. Details from Clare Daly, Membership Manager, RenewableUK, Tel: +44 (0)20 7901 3016; clare.daly@renewableuk.com. You must register in advance.

The Energy Generation and Supply Knowledge Transfer Network (EG&S KTN) is delighted to bring you a seminar focusing on the transfer of skills and technical knowledge from oil and gas to the renewables sector, to improve cross sector collaboration and sustainability for the UK’s energy supply. Being held on Tuesday 22 May at the AECC, the event will provide delegates with the chance to hear about the opportunities and synergies of cross collaboration, followed by table discussions to identify how both industries can work together to drive this forward. Details from Ashleigh Martin: ashleigh.martin@energyktn.innovateuk.org

NOF Networking Lunch

Opportunities in New Nuclear with EDF Energy, Rolls-Royce, Nuclear AMRC and NIA, takes place in the morning and over lunch on 22 May at AECC. Nuclear New Build offers huge opportunities to companies prepared to invest in the necessary skills and infrastructure. Apart from the four reactors EDF Energy plan to build, other operators have plans for additional plant within the UK. Horizon Nuclear Power is planning to develop sites at Wylfa and Oldbury, and NuGen has plans to build a new plant in West Cumbria. For booking details go to: http://bit.ly/AhUVQz

Note: All-Energy’s nuclear session in the conference takes place on Wednesday 23 May, enabling NOF delegates to stay overnight to hear more and visit the All-Energy exhibition!

23 MAY

All-Energy 2012 Business Breakfast

It’s an early start, but worth it! The Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce Business Breakfast has long heralded the start of All-Energy. It will be held in AECC’s Boyd Orr Hall. Start time 06.45, and it finishes at 08.45, in good time for the opening plenary session of All-Energy. Speakers at this year’s Breakfast, chaired by Iain Todd, AREG’s Renewables Champion, are: Andrew Donaldson, Head of Offshore Renewables, SSE; Ben Madden, Director, Element Energy; and Alexander Pohl, Head of Climate Business, HSBC.  www.agcc.co.uk/all-energy-breakfast-2012/ to book your place.

Addressing Environmental Risk for the Marine Renewables Sector

Environmental risks have had a profound impact on the early marine renewables projects.  The cost and timescale for environmental monitoring and mitigation measures are significant issues that need to be understood and managed.  Recognising this, the TSB’s Energy Generation Knowledge Transfer Network, the Natural Environment Research Council  and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office  have organised this event at All-Energy 2012 on Wednesday 23 May to address this issue.

 The purpose of this event is to:

• Raise awareness of the implications of environmental risk on future investment and insurances.
• Signpost to sources of environmental data and advice to inform device design, deployment and maintenance from a financial risk management perspective.
•  Investigate finance and regulatory issues that contribute to the challenges and uncertainties faced by the developing marine sector when planning for the future, and how research can address them.
• Ultimately, to future-proof new developments and achieve renewable energy targets by (a) improving risk mitigation planning to (2) increase the number and scale of investments that will (3) speed up deployment.

The full day event will comprise:

• Twice repeated scene-setting presentations from (a) financier (b) developer (c) researcher or environmental consultant (d) insurer (e) regulator.
• Drop in surgeries with representatives of each type of stakeholder throughout the day.
• Facilitated workshops to discuss challenges.
• Networking opportunities.

This event at AECC promises to inform delegates on how to recognise, quantify and manage environmental risks – reducing development costs and reducing consent timescales.

To view the full 2011 programme featuring all 280 speakers, together with many of the presentations given, visit in the “Looking Back” section.

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