Offshore wind, wave and tidal all play key roles in next week’s All-Energy 2014 (Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre – AECC, 21-22 May).
Nearly 11 hours of conference time at the UK’s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference is devoted to offshore wind –including 105 minutes to floating offshore wind; a further nine and a quarter hours to wave and tidal; and a 90-minute Marine Scotland session spans all three technologies in ‘Offshore renewable energy in Scottish Waters – policy, planning and licensing for the present and future’.
Added to that there are two repeating full-day technology update programmes in both the Offshore Wind/O&M, and Wave and Tidal seminar theatres on the exhibition show floor, and offshore renewables also play a key role in the inaugural All-Energy Share Fair.
“That’s not where it ends in conference terms, far from it,” says All-Energy’s conference director, Judith Patten. “With Ministerial keynote addresses in the opening plenary session, sponsored by DNV GL by Rt Hon Alistair Carmichael MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, and Fergus Ewing MP, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism, Scottish Government, offshore renewables are bound to be mentioned in that session. It also features Bader Saeed Al Lamki, Director of Masdar Clean Energy (who will touch on Masdar’s London Array involvement), Rob Cormie, Group Operations Director, UK Green Investment Bank; Angela Knight CBE, Chief Executive, Energy UK; Gordon McIntosh, Director of Enterprise, Planning and Infrastructure, Aberdeen City Council; and Duncan Botting, Managing Director, Global Smart Transformation Ltd.
“Indeed looking through the programme with its eight parallel sessions and the Share Fair offshore renewables will certainly figure in the grid session; in financing and funding, in skills – the list goes on!”
The All-Energy Share Fair features presentations on tendering processes and short, medium and long term requirements from EDPR, Repsol, AREVA and Babcock (the latter featuring delivering offshore substations), tidal device developer OpenHydro; and HyTrEc, BOC and Hydrogenics – companies involved with the H2 strategy for the Aberdeen Region. There are also presentations on setting up local supply chains by Orkney Renewable Energy Forum and Cornwall Marine Network. As well as information on the support available for those setting up supply chains, or for those wanting to get a foot on the supply chain ladder. All presenters are also taking part in the 1-2-1 pre-bookable meeting sessions in a specially designated area on the exhibition show floor.
Offshore renewables events the day prior to All-Energy
The Atlantic Power Cluster Transnational Seminar, Root Cause Analysis Seminar and Underwater Noise Workshop all take place at AECC on Tuesday 20 May, and AREG’s Wave and Tidal Seminar is at their City centre offices.
All-Energy is free to attend for all with a business/professional interest in renewable energy and business energy efficiency.
The event is held in association with RenewableUK, Scottish Renewables, AREG, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, and UK Trade & Investment – who are bringing specialists from Algeria, Barbados, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, India, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, UAE, USA, and Vietnam.