Grid Modernisation & Microgrids: Building Resilience
Enhancing grid resilience against shocks and variability Examines grid upgrades, digitalisation, and microgrid solutions that improve resilience against extreme weather, system failures, or sudden demand spikes. How modern grid technologies enhance resilience. Microgrid design and operation for localized stability. Regulatory and commercial barriers to grid innovation.
Firm Power & Flexibility in a Renewable-Dominated Grid
Ensuring reliable supply during intermittent renewable generation Examines the need for firm capacity and system flexibility to manage renewable intermittency, including long-duration storage, interconnectors, and demand-side solutions. The role of firm power and flexibility in a high-renewable grid. Storage, interconnectors, and demand-side management solutions. Strategies to prevent supply gaps.
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 […]
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 […]
