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Scotland continues to be a leading nation in renewable energy production. This was highlighted in June's CfD auction, with 1.85GW of offshore contracts every onshore wind contract, totalling 1.5GW, 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.
As wind projects come to the end of their life cycle, there is a question of what to do with the remaining assets. Two options you have to continue making returns are asset life extensions and repowering.
Learn how you can boost the lifetime revenue of your portfolio thanks to these opportunities.
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.
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: UK, Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Greece and the Netherlands.
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.
Co-located and hybrid technologies, such as green hydrogen, provide the opportunity to make additional revenue from your assets, which can be particularly attractive when having difficulty establishing grid connections.
The panel will discuss the benefits of such technologies, and why diversifying your portfolios to include them makes them so much more attractive to investors.
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.
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?
In the absence of Feed-in-Tariffs, the earnings of renewable energy projects and PPAs are considerably exposed to market prices. The exposures extend over long horizons of up to 20 years. How can you quantify these risks? And more importantly, how can you reduce these risks by using hedging strategies? In this presentation, Ewout will give particular attention to the concepts of earnings-at-risk and stack-and-roll hedging strategies.
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.
These interactive roundtables will provide you with the opportunity to discuss the European wind sector's top issues and opportunities. Attendees on day one will have the opportunity to suggest, and vote on, topics that will then be discussed.
Potential topics could include: Energy price inflation, cost of raw materials, the supply chain, permitting and consent times.
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.