Investor Confidence in Utility-Scale Renewables: Opportunities & Risks
Capital remains available for clean power, but investors are selective. Grid uncertainty, market reform and policy risk are reshaping how capital is allocated. Current investor risk perceptions in utility-scale renewables. The policy and regulatory clarity investors now expect. How RNP, balancing reform, curtailment risk and transmission charging uncertainty are influencing investment appetite and project valuation. […]
Unlocking Rooftop Solar at Retail Parks
Retail parks offer large, often underused roof spaces that could make a significant contribution to the UK’s clean energy goals. This session explores how to overcome legal, structural, and financial barriers to rooftop solar deployment. It highlights strategies such as using power purchase agreements (PPAs), taking advantage of relaxed planning regulations, and fostering collaboration between […]
Government Role and Political Landscape: Energy Security, Affordability, and Climate Goals
The political spotlight has increasingly moved from climate leadership to energy security and affordability, creating new pressures and opportunities for renewable projects. This session examines how policy priorities are evolving, the implications for investment, permitting, and project pipelines, and what developers and system operators must do to stay ahead. Attendees will leave equipped to align […]
Securing the UK’s Energy Supply Chains
The UK remains heavily dependent on imports for critical clean energy equipment, including solar panels, batteries, and grid components. This session explores how to manage supply chain risks, strengthen local capability where feasible, and ensure energy resilience. Experts will discuss policy levers, strategic investment, and international collaboration to support the UK’s clean energy ambitions despite […]
The New Demand Reality: Where UK Electricity Growth Is Really Coming From
Why demand forecasts keep being wrong Electricity demand is no longer growing evenly or predictably. AI, EV charging, logistics hubs, electrified industry, and digital infrastructure are creating sharp, localised spikes. This opening session sets the demand-growth baseline the system is struggling to plan for. Which sectors are driving UK electricity demand growth. Why traditional forecasting […]
Market Design Under Pressure: Can Current Structures Support Renewable Growth
Geopolitical events outside of the UKs control leading to an impact on customer bills and ultimately resulting in adverse macro-economic impact for everyone highlight just why this topic is so important. The Market needs a design change to support renewables – they key one being breaking the link between power and gas. I will talk […]
From Vulnerability to Independence: How Conflict in the Middle East Accelerates the Case for Clean Power
The conflict involving Iran has exposed how energy systems reliant on Middle Eastern oil and gas remain dangerously exposed to geopolitical disruption, with nations from Europe to Asia grappling with supply threats and market volatility. How the Iran situation is reshaping global energy security strategies and highlights the UK’s Clean Power 2030 progress alongside international […]
From Commitment to Construction: Unlocking Urban Rooftop & C&I Solar
Why Projects Don’t Start—And Why They Stall After Commitment This session focuses on early-stage adoption barriers that prevent rooftop and C&I solar projects from even entering the pipeline, including split incentives, internal corporate buy-in, and city-level coordination. It also addresses the critical gap between commitment and execution: why projects that reach RFP and tender stages […]
The Real Barriers to Rooftop Solar: Insurance, Fire Safety & Contracts
While rooftop and carport solar benefit from permitted development rights, making planning approval relatively straightforward, projects still face significant barriers that limit scalability. This session explores the real blockers: insurance requirements (such as FM Global standards), fire safety regulations mandating module-level shutdown technology, structural assessments, and the complexity of non-standardized PPA contracts that create lengthy […]
Clean Power 2030 And Beyond: Electricity Demand and the Next Phase of the UK Energy Transition
Clean Power 2030 And Beyond: Electricity Demand and the Next Phase of the UK Energy Transition How the Clean Power 2030 objectives fit into the UK’s broader long-term energy transition Medium-term power drivers demand growth in the UK Changing role of power system flexibility as the transition progresses and technology trends within this area
