Then on the Friday, after the show has closed, there will be a small number of Technical Tours – one to the Met Office in Aberdeen has been confirmed and others will follow. Details of all arrangements for All-Energy 2011 are on the show’s website at
www.all-energy.co.uk
What makes All-Energy different from so many industry events is that both the exhibition and seven-stream conference are free to attend for all with a business or professional interest in renewable energy. This means that the event appeals to those who work in, or serve, the industry on a day-to-day basis, and those who are considering renewable energy for their land, their farm, their organisation’s headquarters, their community, their housing association, their Council’s housing stock or to recommend to home-owners; and, of course, to those who are considering investing in the industry, or who are interested in making a career change and joining one of the sectors … the list is long.
The All-Energy Conference The planning of the annual All-Energy conference is always left as late as possible to ensure that it is as topical as it can be – always a challenge in the fast moving world of renewable energy.
Speakers in the opening plenary session on 18 March, chaired by Andrew Jamieson of ScottishPower Renewables (and Chairman of RenewableUK), include The Lord Provost of the City of Aberdeen; Charles Hendry MP, UK Minister of State for Energy; Rainer Bomba, Permanent State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS), Germany; Sir Ian Wood, Chairman of the Wood Group; and Niall Stuart, Chief Executive of Scottish Renewables. With the Holyrood Elections taking place on 5 May, less than a fortnight before the show, a warm welcome will await a Scottish Government Minister - recent years have seen both Richard Lochhead MSP and Jim Mather MSP speaking in the opening session
This year’s programme is far ranging with sessions/ streams devoted to all the renewable energy sources – onshore and offshore wind; wave and tidal; bioenergy (biomass, biogas and biofuel); hydropower; and hydrogen and fuel cells (particularly in power storage and sustainable transport). There will also be sessions on carbon capture and storage and on nuclear power.
The introduction last year of Feed In Tariffs (FITs) makes the microgeneration (solar PV and thermal; ‘small wind’, micro CHP and district heating) session ever-more relevant – and with the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme just announced, this will come under the conference spotlight too (with Austria explaining detailing their experiences); as will district heating in a session run by the Combined Heat and Power Association.
Other sessions will deal with Energy Market Reform; the grid (in all its guises including smart grids, interconnectors and the latest initiatives and consultations); finance and funding, including a session organised by the Scottish European Green Energy Centre on ‘Bankable Projects: Regs, Risks and Returns’; the ever-growing challenge of finding the right people and skills sets; and sessions on renewables for communities; renewables for farms/farmers; and academic initiatives (with EPSRC introducing a session on SuperGen).
More information, including details of which session will take place when, is available on the All-Energy website at
www.all-energy.co.uk where online registration is open; and there is also the opportunity to register for All-Energy’s useful fortnightly free e-zine, News@All-Energy.
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