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Leonardo Royal London Tower Bridge, London, UK
6 – 7 December 2022
If you would like to discuss a potential speaking opportunity at our upcoming Wind Power Finance & Investment Summit Europe, please contact Tom Doyle
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Scotland continues to be a leading nation in renewable energy production. This was highlighted in June's CfD auction, with every onshore wind contract awarded to projects in Scotland. With near-perfect weather conditions and no intention of slowing down the number of projects under construction, the Scottish Government Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise, Ivan McKee, will showcase the future of wind power in Scotland.
In order to meet targets set by European Governments and the EU, the industry will have to scale up at unforeseen levels. This panel discussion will cover current supply chain issues and how they can be alleviated to ensure long term success.
Changes to interest rates, the price of raw materials and international conflicts have all greatly impacted the wind industry in 2022. There has also been development of new technologies including floating wind, green hydrogen and green steel. Learn what the future holds for the European wind industry and how you can best position yourself to take full advantage of new developments.
The price of raw materials has sky rocketed in 2022, on an upward trajectory before the war in Ukraine. The knock on effect means that projects' construction costs are increasing as turbines become more expensive. Find out how to best prepare yourselves to limit the affect inflation will have on constructing your projects.
With increased competition for space in the industry, there is less opportunity to add to your portfolio. Therefore, optimising the returns from your current assets is now more important than ever. This can be done both through ensuring they are being run at their most efficient and extending the time for which they operational through life extensions and repowering.
These interactive roundtables will provide you with the opportunity to join discussions about Europe's top wind producing countries. Representatives from national associations will chair the conversation on the biggest issues and opportunities affecting their country.
Target countries include: Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Greece and the Netherlands.
Floating Wind is an exciting opportunity to be a part of, with financiers eager to find out how ready it is to start allocating capital towards. This expert presentation will provide you with the information and data you require to best understand Floating Wind, and where to invest to be a part of it.
Floating Wind opportunities represent 80% of Europe's total potential offshore wind power capacity. Although the technology is still nascent, there have been some exciting developments this year with the first CfD contract being awarded to a Floating Wind project in June. And the Crown Estate's Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4 plan includes a 4GW allocation of floating wind in the Celtic Sea.
The panel will discuss the best way to roll out floating wind projects at scale, the risks that are involved with them, and the necessary additional port infrastructure required.
With increased market volatility, valuing assets accurately is becoming more and more difficult. This session will go through what you can do to ensure you can maintain a competitive edge in your M&A transactions.
Any changes to governmental policy will cause wholesale changes to the structure of the industry overnight. Governments across Europe are reviewing their regulatory policies with Spain's proposal to the EU to decouple gas and energy prices. And the UK Government's Review of Electricity Market Agreements (REMA), set to be published in December, will potentially see an overhaul to policy that has not changed in the last 20 years.
The panel will discuss what these policy changes could mean for the industry and how best to prepare yourself to mitigate, and profit from, any changes that do come into place.
If able to be produced at scale, Green Hydrogen will be key in the global transition away from fossil fuels. However, there are still questions that need to answered about its efficiency of production and efficacy of transportation to be delivered at scale effectively.
Co-located and hybrid technologies such as green hydrogen, long-term storage and green steel provide the opportunity to make revenue from your assets without a grid connection. The panel will discuss the importance of such technologies to make projects more attractive for investors and the advantages of diversifying your portfolios.
There is ever increasing competition for assets as more financiers look to fund the energy transition. In order to add to their portfolios, investors who traditionally have bought assets upon construction are now getting involved earlier in the process. How is this going to affect ownership models? Is this going to bring about the end of the asset rotation model?
The structure of both merchant and corporate PPAs are constantly changing. Find out how to keep up with these changes and draft the best agreements to generate you the highest revenue.
The manner in which power is being sold is constantly changing, with updates to Corporate and Merchant PPAs and partial CfDs again a part of June's auction. This panel will break down the ways in which route to market is changing and how to best position yourself to take advantage of such changes.
Governments across Europe, and the EU themselves, have set ambitious renewables targets for the coming decades:
Germany has pledged to "fulfil all its electricity needs with supplies from renewable sources by 2035"
Greece is aiming to have "70% renewable electricity generation" by 2030. Which is being funded by 38% of the EU's largest COVID relief grant and loan package.
Ireland has committed to 80% of energy to be from renewable sources by 2030, from the current level of 30%.
The EU intend to "cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030" (compared to 1990 levels). And that Europe will become a "carbon neutral continent by 2050".
Are such targets achievable? Where is the required capital going to come from to meet them? This session will discuss what governments need to do to hit these targets and how investors can make money from getting involved.
These interactive roundtables will provide you with the opportunity to join discussions about Europe's top wind producing countries. Representatives from national associations will chair the conversation on the biggest issues and opportunities affecting their country.
Target countries include: Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Greece and the Netherlands.
Climate change is causing weather patterns that are both increasingly difficult to predict and inflicting more damage to wind projects. Find out how best to position yourself to limit the impact of such damage.
With an increase in extreme weather conditions, there will be even more intermittency in wind projects' output. Find out what you can implement to reduce the impact of such downtime, and limit the need for emergency procedures.