Offshore wind will feature heavily in the All-Energy exhibition and conference being held at Glasgow’s SEC on 15 and 16 May.
The main conference features ‘The Way Forward’ looking primarily at the Offshore Wind Sector Deal and the next steps to be taken.
The session, chaired by Patricia Hawthorn, a partner at Shepherd and Wedderburn, will include Julia, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Benj Sykes, Orsted’s UK country manager, Jonathan Cole, the managing director of Iberdrola’s global offshore wind business and Danielle Lane, director of portfolio and transactions, offshore, at Vattenfall.
Other sessions dedicated to offshore wind at All-Energy include ‘The Offshore Wind Supply Chain in Action.’
Chaired by Clark MacFarlane, managing director UK at Siemens Gamesa, the session will include presentations from the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, Orsted, ScottishPower Renewables, EDF Renewables and Scottish Enterprise.
The session ‘Around the World in 90 minutes’, looks at global developments in offshore wind, specifically in China, Taiwan, the US and Japan.
Floating wind is in the spotlight on the second day.
East Anglia 3, Neart na Gaoithe and the DeepWind North of Scotland Cluster, feature in the ever-popular ‘Meet the Developer’ Share Fair which runs throughout the two days.
Hydrogen will also move into the spotlight at this year’s All-Energy, on 16 May.
An hour’s discussion on ‘Why might the hydrogen economy finally have its day?’ will take place on that day.
Carbon Connect has produced a series of reports on the ‘Future of Gas’, thanks to a cross-party parliamentary enquiry co-chaired by MPs Alan Whitehead, Alan Brown and James Heappy, also with some prior involvement of Calum McCaig and Alistair Carmichael.
In the Day 2 plenary session Keith MacLean, managing director of Providence Policy, who worked with Carbon Connect on the reports, will explore the idea that hydrogen could do much of the “heavy lifting”, sitting alongside other low-carbon gases playing complementary and transitionary roles.
Matthew Knight, head of business development power and gas at Siemens, will chair a discussion with panellists Joanna Coleman, UK energy transition manager at Shell UK, and Angus McIntosh, director of energy futures at SGN.
Hydrogen will also feature on the exhibition show floor with a double-decker hydrogen bus from Alexander Dennis, a hydrogen powered Mirai from Toyota and an electric Kangoo van with a fuel cell range extender.
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