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REGIONAL CHP / RENEWABLES CONFERENCES & ROADSHOWS 2013
Organized by GMP Publishing who publish a range of international energy related magazines
20th - 21st March - Event City, Manchester29th - 30th May - Prince Phillip Centre, London25th - 26th September - University of West England, Bristol
Provisional List of Speakers - not all speakers listed may speak at all events, and it is possible that some may drop out due to other commitments. There is no fee charged for speakers, and no entry fee for delegates:
Note: 1. Could all participants please consider to register on the Claverton-energy.com
website, and put their professional details on the professional register. Also join the Claverton Yahoo Energy Discussion group – send email to [email protected], moderator.
2. Generally talks should be 20 minutes with 10 minutes questions, except where essential to be longer, and pre-agreed with the organisers.
3. Talks will rigorously chaired to the above time limits so speakers need to ensure their speeches can fit inside these time limits. :-)
[email protected] Topic: Energy management through people – delivering multiple benefits to individuals, businesses and organisations
James Brittain, Energy Management Director, The Discovery Mill [email protected]
James has successfully delivered multi-millions of pounds of energy savings for UK businesses. He is a chartered engineer with over 17 years’ experience in leading energy and environmental improvement for many organisations, including Heathrow Airport, NHS Trusts and facilities management and tourism businesses. He has discovered that biggest savings come about by involving and working closely with the people on the ground. James is also a guest university MSc lecturer for energy management and is a regular contributor to industry conference events.
[email protected] Alder, ‘What policy do we need to maximise renewable energy deployment?’
Martin runs Optimum Energy Ltd. which specialises in renewable energy contracts, trading and renewable market economics. OEL is a partner with the Wind Prospect Group in the Wind Direct joint venture. He is Director of Energy UK, and Chairman of their Renewable Energy Committee. He represents Energy UK as the UK member of the Eurelectric workgroup for Renewables and Embedded Generation. He is a member of the DECC CfD expert group.
<[email protected]> Alban Thurston ‘Projekt Sonnenschein Projekt Sonnenschein unites right-of-centre politicians in Britain & Germany, educating them in the benefits of community-owned low carbon energy. Accountable, local & democratic, community-ownership of low carbon energy has proved to be the most powerful policy tool available to change citizens' behaviour towards energy use & conservation.
[email protected] Padraig Hanly Managing Director GT Energy “ The role of geothermal energy in the UK”
Padraig is a founding Director of GT Energy. He was responsible within GT Energy for developing the concept of commercialising deep geothermal energy in Ireland and the UK. During this time he project manages Ireland’s first deep geothermal exploration project and has since secured planning permission for Ireland’s first geothermal electricity project in Newcastle Co. Dublin.
As Managing Director of GT Energy he is continually promoting the deep geothermal sector in Ireland and the UK while also working towards developing geothermal projects for the production of renewable heat in the UK. GT Energy through it membership in the REA has successful lobbied for the introduction of the designated heat tariff under the RHI. In January 2012 GT Energy signed an MOU with EON UK for the development of up to 5 geothermal projects with the first being in Manchester.GT Energy currently working on a number of geothermal heat projects with Eon in the UK with the first expected to receive planning permission in the coming months. Padraig has expanded the team to include in house experts and highly experienced service providers on an exclusive basis across Europe. Padraig has overseen two successful fundraisings to date in Ireland and is currently fundraising in London with Turquoise International for the future development of projects in the UK.
As a qualified surveyor previously he worked with Liffey Developments Civil Engineering both as business development manager and as contracts manager and gained a wealth of experience in the construction and property industry while also qualifying as a Pilot.
Robert Buckley <[email protected]>, Martin Betts <[email protected]> Alison Forbes <[email protected]>“ How Electricity Market Reform may affect independent renewable generators”
Company information:
Cornwall Energy is an energy consultancy firm. We provide informed, independent energy market analysis and advice for market participants, service providers and policy-makers. We ensure companies keep up to date with developments in fast moving markets and interpret what they mean for their competitive and regulatory strategies. We are experienced at advising policy-makers and regulators on key market issues and at helping companies make their cases as well. We are also familiar with designing and implementing market reform programmes with extensive experience around the world in five continents. At the same time we understand how important it is to account for local factors in these complex processes.
Our customer base includes energy stakeholders from a diverse range of backgrounds, including network operators, gas producers, electricity developers and generators large and small, energy suppliers, commercial and legal practices, consumers and their representatives. We offer market intelligence services and bespoke consultancy services concerning operational, commercial and regulatory issues.
"Wayne Boakes" <[email protected]>, [email protected], Wayne Boakes & mohammed.saddiq, Will talk on either or / both : use of emergency diesel generators to provide grid support / the construction and operation of food waste digestors.
[email protected] Dr Richard J Harley.
Dr Richard J Harley - “Biofuels - controversial due to competition with food – have they a role to play and, if so, where?”
Personal Statement
Dr. Harley has vast experience in setting up Biodiesel Crushing and Refining Processing Plants and working with Government and Private Investors to plan, and plant, in excess of 250,000 hectares of Jatropha Curcas (Physic Nut) plants (including intercropping with cash crops). Jatropha Curcas does not miss-place food crops as its non edible. He has worked in UK., EU., USA., Ghana, West and East Africa, South Africa, China, India, Middle East and Far East, South America and Australia. He can also advise on EU., and USA., Energy Directives, Mandates and Government Subsidies.
He is an expert in the following1st/2nd/3rd and 4th Generation Feedstocks: Crude Palm Oil (CPO), Red Palm Oil, Palm Kernel and Babassu Oil in South East Asia - especially Malaysia, Indonesia and Papa New Guinea (PNG). In addition, Rapeseed UK, EU, Canada and Europe. Corn North America into Bio Ethanol, Enzymes into biofuel, Yeasts and blends, Camelina, Soybean Oil in the USA, Sugarcane in Brazil and Mauritius, Jatropha Curcas in Africa, China, South East Asia, South Africa, India, Madagascar, Middle East, Willow, Cotton Oil, Tung Tree, Hemp, Coco-diesel, Caster Bean, Kenaf, Pumpkin Seed, AGAVE Biofuel USA., Pongamia Pinnata, Sunflower, Sesame, Cashew Nut, Coconut, Peanut, Rubber Seed, Cassava to Biogas, Molasses, Potato, Sugar Beet, Cohune Palm Nut, Olive Oil, Pomace Oil (cooking), Biogas, Oleo chemical, Eucalypt trees, Switch grass (Panicum), Rice, Miscanthus, Algae, Bio Plastics “Green Plastics”, Meat into Biofuels, Yellow Grease (kitchen fat), tallow, animal and vegetable fats and Animal By-Products (ABP), restaurant waste and trap grease, Drop-In Renewable Biofuels, Carbohydrates, Cellulosic Technology – Lignocellulosic Biomass Technology, including “Bagasse”, Hydrocarbon Processing, Tequila – Agave Plants and Tapioca as a low carbon biofuel source.
He has an in depth knowledge of Multi-Faceted Bio refineries, the Transesterification Process, Fischer-Tropsch (FT) Technology, Re-refining of Base Oils and Polyols for the plastic industry. Richard can also advise on Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), Biodegradable Municipal Waste (BMW), Waste to Energy (WtE), Energy from Waste (EfW, Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF), Biomass Gasification (BG), Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT), Cogeneration and Onsite Power Production (COSPP). Autoclave Process (ACP), Ball Mill (BM) and Landfill and Geo-textiles and Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs). Also,
Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Process Reactor, In Vessel Composting (IVC), Organic Sludge, Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottles into Polyester Fibre and GeoTextiles, and other materials that contain hydrocarbons into mineral diesel oil, for example, Bio Gas, Biomass and Waste to Energy Systems, Glass Recycling (GR), Conservation Security Programme (CSP) Biofuel and Combined Heat and Power (CHP), In Vessel Composting (IVC), Pyrolysis Gasification, Shale Gas in the UK., and USA.Synopsis:
Topics to be addressed:
Biofuels and bioenergy production and investment has been driven largely by the policies of national governments, both in developed and developing countries – for example, EU, US, Australia – is this a good or bad thing?
Legitimate sustainability-related concerns by a large number of stakeholders around the world.
Are biofuels sustainable? How much is needed? What are environmental impact risk assessments (IRA) and certification
schemes? Demand for biofuel within the EU and the necessity to source it from
countries outside the EU. The need to protect potentially vulnerable and marginalised people ahead of
economic gains. Converting arable land from food to biofuel cultivation, food security,
impacts on rising food prices. ‘Abandoned’ or ‘marginal land’ for the production of biofuel. How much land is available? How much land is needed? Where is it? Will the production of biofuels lead to an increase in alternative jobs for the
rural poor? For example a Brazilian sugarcane estate. EU regulations and international certification schemes – The European
Directive 2009/28/EC for the use of energy from renewable sources. Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) and Crude Palm Oil (CPO) from
Malaysia and Indonesia into EU. West Africa, Ghana and biofuel production. Feedstocks used in the production of Biofuel and their present and future
availability. Can new Biofuel technology help? Does biofuel only work because its subsidised? How clean is Biofuel compared to fossil fuel? Who are the big players? What are their long-term environmental policies? The Way Forward – 2020/2050
Emma Haight, Infrastructure & Renewables, NIBC Bank NV. Bankability of bio-renewables
Bio:
Emma is currently working as Vice President of NIBC Bank’s transaction origination in London and is leading the London office’s financial advisory services. NIBC finances and
advises on Renewable Energy and Infrastructure finance, and is a leading biomass & renewables advisory and finance bank. Emma graduated from Oxford University in 2002 and went on to work as a sustainable energy finance lawyer with Allen & Overy in London and Gide Loyrette Nouel in Paris, advising EUMENA governments, sponsors and banks on the finance of nuclear scale-up and renewable energy projects. She has recently completed her thesis on the role of large-scale CSP projects in addressing energy and water security issues in the MENA region. Before joining NIBC, Emma led development of Nur Energie’s solar projects in France and North Africa.
Emma HaightInfrastructure & RenewablesNIBC Bank NV
DD: 44 207 375 7939M: 44 7581 639 527
Giulia Bonifazi <[email protected]>Stephane Senechal <[email protected]>Stephane Senechal, Turboden:
Small capacity biomass to electricity CHP plant based on Organic Rankine Cycle turbogenerators up to 3 MWeSynopsis: The ORC technology in cogenerative systems has by now reached a level of full maturity in biomass applications. In Europe, there are over 140 plants in operation with sizes between 0.2 and 3 MW electric.ORC systems are very flexible and can be used in different applications like district heating systems, pellet production factories, sawmills and tri-generation systems with absorption chillers.The presentation will summarize the possible application of ORC units in biomass field, focusing the attention on the possibility to use the ORC modules in processes that are not directly tie to electricity production like sawmills, pellet factories, district heating systems, etc. optimizing the global efficiency of the plant using the waste biomass coming from these existing production processes to produce, thanks to the ORC technology, hot water for internal use (belt driers, district heating, etc) and electricity. Some References in UK will be also presented.
[email protected] Dr Anthony Riddle, Associate Director, Ramboll Energy
Denmark has been at the forefront of developments in district heating since 1980s when the country embarked upon extensive strategic planning for district heating, natural gas and CHP with the aim of reducing its dependency on oil. As a result, CHP and renewable energy from waste and biomass are now widely embedded in Denmark’s energy supply infrastructure with resulting consumption of fossil fuels for the heating sector having been reduced by around 60 % over the 30 years since 1980. This presentation will focus on the Danish experience and, in particular, the Future Smart Cities Approach that represents the vision for the study Heat Plan Denmark 2010 to further decarbonise Denmark’s energy supply and cut 50% of the heating sector’s current CO2 emissions by 2020 and be almost CO2 neutral by 2030. The presentation will also address factors relevant to the UK market, in particular the economic benefits of integration of large scale CHP into DH and its role in decarbonisation of heat.
Dr Anthony Riddle is an Associate Director in Ramboll Energy’s District Heating team in the UK. He is a Chartered Engineer with a Ph.D. and is a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. His particular interest and specialism lies in master-planning of decentralized energy systems, with particular focus on district heating schemes involving combined heat and power. Much of Anthony’s work has been focused in the context of London, where he has been involved in master planning and carrying out techno economic appraisals for several notable project opportunities for a range of Local Authorities and the Greater London Authority.
Nicole Parker Low Carbon <[email protected]>Darren Jones <[email protected]>, Doug Bailey <[email protected]>, Building Management Systems: Darren Jones, Managing Director of Low Carbon, and Doug Bailey, Senior Partner of Low Carbon.
Synopsis A Building Energy Management System (BEMS) is a useful tool for the energy manager, but is it adequate to maximise energy and carbon savings? Not according to leading CIBSE low carbon consultant, Darren Jones, who advocates a more intrusive approach that also requires a regular visual inspection of critical HVAC and associated plant. Using examples from work carried out on many commercial and government buildings, he shows the value of taking power, temperature and pressure readings between each AHU component . Evidencing that what the BEMS indicates is not a true reflection of what is really happening. Through these examples, he will prove that the “invasive” approach will frequently reveal weaknesses that the BEMS will not. Of particular interest to FM managers, this approach offers significant saving opportunities.
Biog:
Darren Jones B.Sc. (Hons) Eng Tech. LCIBSE is Low Carbon UK’s Managing Director. Holding a B.Sc. in Energy and Environmental Engineering and as a CIBSE Low Carbon Consultant, he tutors for CIBSE running the UK TM44 Air Conditioning Inspection courses. He was the first Accredited Air Conditioning Inspector in the UK and is also a DEC Low Carbon Energy Assessor.
With extensive experience in Energy Audits for Hospitals and International clients, Darren has been instrumental in improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon footprint for many government and commercial organizations, particularly by extending the air conditioning inspections into a fully intrusive survey to identify real benefits.
Darren has won the national Low Carbon Energy Assessor – EPC of the year award 2010.
<[email protected]> Dr Mike Haywood The Perfect Storm Synopsis: Joining the Dots…… How are all the crises we are facing interconnected?….. Peak Oil, Energy crunch, Global Banking crisis, climate change, pensions time-bomb, species extinction and resource depletion. Brief bio: Engineer, oceanographer, oil production engineer and Independent Financial adviser, recently retired
[email protected] Adam Wray-Summerson. Clarke Energy. Will talk about the use of gas engines in chp schemes 0151 546 4446
CHP is the simultaneous production of electricity with the recovery and utilisation heat. CHP is a highly efficient form of energy conversion and it can achieve primary energy savings of approximately 40% by compared to the separate purchase of electricity from the national grid and a gas boiler for onsite heating. Combined heat and power plants are typically embedded close to the end user and therefore help reduce transportation and distribution losses, improving the overall performance of the electricity transmission and distribution network. For power users where security of supply is an important factor for their selection of power production equipment and gas is abundant, gas-based cogeneration systems are ideally suited as captive power plants (i.e. power plants located at site of use).
[email protected] [email protected] Yan Evans, Director ofENER-G Switch2 www.energ.co.uk/switch2
"Modelling and developing small-scale residential community energy/districtheating ESCo solutions".There is a powerful mandate to deliver affordable energy through low carbondecentralised energy networks, but managing the financial, development andoperational challenges of community energy/district heating schemes isexceptionally complex.
Yan will provide an overview and explain the complex technical andfinancial modelling of small-scale residential ESCo schemes. He will discusshow the incorporation of small-scale CHP solutions and biomass boilers, andassociated incentives, impacts on the model and the heat tariff structure.
[email protected] Paul Chandler“Update on photovoltaics in the UK: market, technologies and regulation”
BiographyPaul is development director at T4 Sustainability Ltd, a specialist renewable energy consulting and installation firm formed in 2002. He works as technical advisor on photovoltaics and has 10 years experience specifying, designing, installing, commissioning and repairing off-grid-and grid-tie photovoltaic systems up to 50kW. Paul has studied electronic engineering, renewable energy and electrical power engineering at masters level and previously wrote “Continuing Professional Development on Photovoltaics” for the Energy Institute.
SynopsisA lot has changed in the photovoltaic market in the last 12 months as prices and subsidies have both more than halved. This presentation will provide an update on photovoltaics in the UK covering an update on the market, technologies and regulation. Topics will include current costs and returns, installation rates, observations on grid parity, changes in technology (such as micro-inverters) and updates on regulation (i.e. changes to the grid code and installation standards).
[email protected] Dr. Aikaterini Boulamanti Joint Research Centre, Petten, Holland ( European Commission Energy Policy Advice and Research) “ Sustainability criteria for biomass fuels”
[email protected] Robin Smith "Rent Seeking". The primary social organisation on which all else rests... including energy supply and demand, just behind apparent food supply limits, also a major issue feeding people when there is plenty of food evidently.
The basis is this: http://gco2e.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/rent-seeking-fastest-way-to-get-rich.html
We are not running out of anything, particularly energyTax the rents, abolish all other taxesWatch how quickly capital would flow into new energy sources
This will amaze people. They will not believe it. But will not be able to show it to be untrue.
[email protected] Stephen Tindale, Prashant Vaze. Repowering Communities: European and North American progress with local government and community action on energy efficiency and renewables. Synopsis:
The UK government’s desire to decentralize political power is manifest in its ‘localism’ agenda. How will this affect the transition to a sustainable and affordable energy system? Many people fear the worst. After all, don’t local councils turn down most planning applications for wind farms. Only national politicians have a broad enough view to withstand the pressure from NIMBYs and allow energy transformation, right?
Wrong. Across Europe and North America local governments, co-operatives and community groups show us that sustainable energy and energy efficiency can be delivered by players other than central government and big energy companies. Chris Huhne is well aware of this: in August 2010 he removed the ban on local councils selling renewable electricity. Previously they had been prevented from selling electricity (other than from combined heat and power) into the grid to avoid them ‘interfering’ in the post-privatisation energy market (and no one would want any interference in such a well-functioning market, would they?).
UK local government and community groups have long had an interest in providing their citizens with affordable energy and warmth; indeed municipal authorities pioneered investment in gas and electricity networks in the Victorian era. But now other countries have been at the forefront of developing decentralized energy . Our book Repowering Communities: small-scale solutions to large-scale energy problems shows how mainland Europe and North American co-operative and municipal companies have led low-cost and sustainable energy production.
We argue that the UK is making three mistakes in how it goes about delivering sustainable energy. The first is to believe that only large energy companies can deliver meaningful quantities of low-carbon energy – the contribution of local government or community groups will just be window dressing. The regional government of Upper Austria has shown dramatically that this needn’t be so. Home to 1.4 million people, the Upper Austrian government has promoted (and subsidised) renewable heat. There are now over a million square metres of solar thermal panels in the region, 35,000 wood pellet stoves, 30,000 heat pumps and 12 biomass power stations. This has created 4,500 jobs in biomass heating, with most of the fuel being waste wood from the extensive forests. Many public buildings have been connected to district heating systems.
The UK’s second mistake has been arm twisting energy suppliers into reducing their customers’ energy use. But these firms make their profits from generating electricity, trading in energy markets and supplying gas and electricity to customers. Mandating them to install energy efficiency goes against their nature and is not very plausible to customers. Companies have complied with the regulations but as the CEO of an American energy utility puts it: “If you want every i dotted and every t crossed in your energy efficiency programme you will get just that. But why would any utility go beyond the bare minimum of complying with your order?”
A much more effective approach is demonstrated in Vermont. There the state government has awarded an NGO a contract (funded by energy suppliers) to run Efficiency Vermont.
This seizes opportunities to reduce energy use that normal suppliers would shun for instance working with architects to re-orientate new buildings so their windows face the sun. In Sacramento, California the municipal utility has developed new roofing materials, provides customers free shade trees, accredits energy efficiency installers and provides loans for energy efficiency. Air conditioning has been reduced by a fifth as a result.
A third mistake is the belief that the best way to cut emissions from heating buildings, (which gives rise to almost half UK carbon emissions) is to replace gas heating with low-carbon electricity. Well, last time we looked less than a third of UK electricity was low-carbon. Efficiently operated, electrically powered heat pumps do have a role: in well insulated suburban homes. But we believe large scale district-heating using combined heat and power (CHP) is better in many densely populated locations. Denmark leads the way. A striking example is Copenhagen, where nearly all homes are heated by district heating from burning waste or using large efficient power stations like the 1GW Avedore CHP plant. Well-insulated pipes convey the heat 25 km. Instead of the power station operating at 50% efficiency like most gas fired stations, in winter it can utilise 95% of the energy in the gas.
Local governments and community groups can’t do everything. The low-carbon transition will need enormous investments in offshore wind, tidal stream and wave power and carbon capture and storage. So big energy companies with big balance sheets have their uses. National governments need to set supportive regulatory frameworks – the free market will never deliver sustainable energy – and access to low-cost finance.
But local solutions must be dramatically scaled up in the UK. Local government should be made responsible for planning community energy and area-based energy efficiency programmes. Surely it isn’t inconsistent with localism for central government to say what sub-central government activity needs to cover. And some national or European regulation is required. Denmark expanded district heating through a national heat law introduced after the 1970s oil shocks, making it compulsory for properties to connect to district heating systems once they are constructed. This transformed the economics of district heating. In the UK this approach has only been used at the Olympic Park in London. It should now be rolled out nationally.
Credentials: Prashant Vaze. Chief Economist at Consumer Focus. Member of Haringey Carbon Commission. Formerly team leader (heat), DECC; economist at DEFRA; member of Prime Minister's Strategy Unit. Stephen Tindale. Associate Fellow, Centre for European Reform. Co-founder, Climate Answers (www.climateanswers.info). Formerly head of communications and public affairs, RWE npower renewables; Executive Director of Greenpeace UK and chair of Greenpeace European Unit, specialist adviser to Environment Minister Michael Meacher MP.
[email protected] Marianne Zeyringer Joint Research Centre, Petten, Holland ( European Commission Energy Policy Advice and Research) The impact of dispersed generation on power distribution grids.
[email protected] Neil Peacock – Managing Director, Energy International. “the value of energy efficiency surveys...with detailed case studies showing the overwhelming costs and benefits which apply to all sizes of buildings.
Neil is Managing Director of Energy International a specialist consulting company formed in 1998. Neil’s whole career has been in energy working in R&D, contracting, manufacturing, energy services and consultancy.
Neil has a depth and breadth of experience of both the technical and organizational aspects of energy management. As a presenter Neil has worked with a number of well known organizations helping novices and experts to improve their performance in this area. From Awareness to Zero Carbon Neil has been there and done it.
Neil is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of both the Institution of Mechanical Engineering and the Energy Institute.
Synopsis: Why an Energy Survey is Still ImportantEnergy management may not be rocket science but taking the right approach to it can avoid enormous amounts of wasted time effort and money as well as being highly cost effective. Experience has shown that many organizations struggle with finding the right approach to energy management and thus miss out on the benefits. Using some real life case studies (based on energy surveys) this presentation seeks to guide the audience through the minefield of some the technical and organizational aspects of energy management. The easiest and most common way organizations can get initial access to this specialist advice is often by commissioning an energy survey. Of course you have had an energy survey before, but are you sure that you are still getting it right
[email protected] Alan Beresford is Managing Director of EcoCooling. “The evaporative cooling of data centres to improve efficiency”
Synopsis: The cooling of data centres is becoming more of an issue due to limited power, high energy costs and a high carbon output. Cooling can account for as much energy as the IT equipment in many cases. The application of low cost fresh air systems with
evaporative cooling can reduce the cooling energy used by at least 90% with pay back being in under a year in many applications. The progress of Evaporative cooling technology in data centres will be reviewed, taking in filtration, temperature and environmental control, new ASHRAE standards and fire suppression. The principle of evaporative cooling will be explained and the operating costs, power consumption, environmental impact and inadequacy of some existing installations will be reviewed. Case studies and design spread sheets will be utilised to explain in detail how evaporative cooling is being used successfully in many different types of data centres including retrofit, new builds and containerised cooling.
Biography - Alan Beresford is Managing Director of EcoCooling and a professional Mechanical Engineer by trade who has held senior engineering and operational positions within several UK blue chip companies. He is acknowledged as developing new and novel applications for evaporative cooling and is also responsible for the development of control systems to meet the most exacting standards of environmental control. Alan has sat on the CIBSE steering committee for the design of data centre cooling and is responsible for the development of the EcoCooling CREC designed exclusively for IT cooling.
UK based and Established in 2002 EcoCooling manufacture and distribute Evaporative coolers in the UK and Europe. EcoCooling are leading the way in energy efficient cooling for both commercial and industrial applications and also data centres using fresh air and evaporative cooling which can reduce energy costs by as much as 95%. EcoCoolers are suitable for both retrofit and new build, providing a simple, safe and low cost alternative to refrigeration based cooling for the comfort cooling of buildings. EcoCooling has now more than 1000 clients in the UK with over 100 of those being data centres.
[email protected] Kris Szajdzicki. Energy Metering - Latest Advances in Metering’, Metering for Managing your Energy.
Energy Management is little different to any other type of management — only the topic differs. To gauge success, you must have measurement; for Energy Management, the tool is the Meter.In the presentation, Kris will introduce some of the latest advances in sub-metering and discuss how these innovations can simplify the generation of a metering plan that can accommodate varying company structures.Kris will also look at the importance of Metering in the light of the latest standards such as ISO 50001 on Energy Management Systems.
Kris Szajdzicki is chairman of ND Metering Solutions, a leading metering company specialising in Energy Management, and a fellow of the Energy Institute. His career has spanned over 30 years in energy management. He has served on various committees for the British Standards Institute (BSI) and on advisory committees for the UK Government and the European Commission. He is a member of the council of the Energy Services & Technology Association (ESTA), the UK’s leading energy management industry association. He has been extensively involved in the development of international standards for energy management and is a regular speaker at conferences internationally.
A Speaker to be announced: Smart Metering – We are still looking for Speaker along lines below:
What is probably the final consultation on the technical standards started today. As far as can be seen not enough information is retained on the customers premises on what they call a HAN for any checking to be done to determine if the 'meter' is faulty or not.
To paraphase the new draft regulations ' Trust Me, I'm a meter operator/supplier' and it will be illegal not to. The concept of an independent form of QA of the Weights and Measurement' type seems to have been lost. It was bad enough on telecommunications metering as we moved from BT but arguably this is worse because the compulsive element energy for heating is a basic human need.
[email protected] Professor Lewis Lesley “ Renewably powered tramways”
Prof. Lesley will provide an environmental, energy and transport context for this talk on "Renewably powered tramways", setting out both the technical and the 'market' case for the promotion and provision of tramways in all UK urban areas. Tramways ( and rail public transport in general) are proven worldwide to attract trips from motor cars, and so reduce pollution, fossil fuel burning and congestion. Prof. Lesley has spent over 30years researching urban public transport, and has had published over 200 refereed papers, his latest being the "Light Rail Developers's Handbook" (ISBN 978 1 60427 048 8).
[email protected] Dr, Lopes Ferreira – Technical University of Eindhoven - energy storage technologies overview
[email protected] Chris Jones. - The importance of the Energy Return on Energy Invested , ERoEI and the shift in social values that this implies.
Most of the policy emphasis is on reducing carbon emissions. However, there are two other critical challenges ahead that I cover and it is striking that many of the 2050 Pathway concepts don’t mention these at all, they are usually not part of the brief. One of these is Resource Depletion, and Peak Oil is the most immediate challenge. The other aspect is actually even more important - Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROEI): the energy profit made from extracting an energy resource. The relevance and implications of this will be discussed and illustrated.
[email protected] – Graeme McCrindle Managing Director, First Energy – STOR, National Grid and how your standby generator can be made more reliable and earn money by supporting National Grid.
Agostinho Miguel Garcia – Principal Consultant at SunBD – Sun Business Development agostinho [email protected] ; (www.sunbd.pt)
Title of the presentation: “Bankability and viability of PV projects”
BiographyPrincipal consultant at SunBD – Sun Business DevelopmentPhysics Engineer, more than 13 years of professional experienceInvited lecturer in the TÜV Rheinland Renewable Energies post graduation courseInternational consultant on Solar energy for the Asian Development BankInvited blogger at Asian powerInternational experience in Italy, Germany, Israel, India, Namibia, Mozambique, China, the MaldivesAdvisory assignments for the Ministry of New and Renewable Energies of IndiaAdvisory assignments for the Ministry of Housing and Environment of the Maldives
Advisory assignment for the largest thermal power company in India
Synopsis
Bankability and viability are two words that in the context of Renewable Energies are interrelated and dependent on each other. A project can be viable either technically, economically or even financially, but if it is not bankable, the project will not move forward. Bankability is a word that most across the industry have heard, but few really understand and even fewer implement successfully. We call those the market leaders!
This presentation highlights the technical, economical and financial ingredients for bankability going through the risk assessment and mitigation in PV projects, quantifying the risk factors and looking at PV markets worldwide on a perspective for the near term and highlighting lessons learned from the past: PPA driven markets, FiT driven and new market approaches as reverse bidding.
Understanding the risk of projects and what bankability means makes a difference between a part-time job and be a leader in the industry
[email protected], Stephen Ainsleigh Rice. Jon Halle of Share Energy, Energy4All, How to form and organise communities energy co-ops.
[email protected] Peter Hamnett, R&D and Policy Specialist The UK District Energy AssociationThames Head Wharf, Tetbury Road, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 6NZRegistered in England No. 07253337Phone: 01285 770615Mobile: 07870 251863www.ukdea.org.uk
UK Geothermal association –
[email protected] John Baldwin MD, CNG Services Ltd.www.cngservices.co.uk Renewable biogas and why gas fuelled vehicles are far superior environmentally to battery powered ones.
[email protected] [email protected] Financing the Natural Grid
[email protected] A Green Deal That Actually Works
[email protected] Anthony Day. Low cost decarbonisation of the gas grid". The proposal uses the 1955 to 1992 HMG/British Gas '30 Year Plan' to produce sufficient Synthetic natural Gas (SNG) to provide the whole of UK gas supply. A simple modification of the technology proven at Westfield et al, using mixed waste, biomass and coal as feedstock with Timmins CCS will produce large quantities of zero emissions energy for the same cost as the open market price of fossil Natural Gas, ie large scale decarbonisation can be delivered at no cost to the Nation
[email protected] David Hague BSc (hons), C.Eng., M.I.MechE, M. CIBSE Director Cogen Solutions.
“ How to achieve good CHP application, with long term benefits through risk transfer”
CHP professional with over 25 years experience, including product development and CHP application from both the suppliers and clients perspective.
The presentation will cover CHP application principles, alternative procurement routes to achieve risk transfer and the importance of performance monitoring throughout the CHP contract term.Installation design considerations will cover, DNO connection, steam raising boilers, CHPQA definition for optimum CCL relief and problems associated with standby island mode generation.Contract conditions will cover comprehensive maintenance with performance guarantees, supplier financed energy purchase and Performance Contracts with guaranteed savings.
[email protected] Peter Fane MRICS MBIAC Is a surveyor and a director of a small renewable energy consultancy business, FarmREO, which is focussed on the rural sector. He is the author of the RICS information note and guidance to surveyors on renewable energy and more recently anaerobic digestion. He is a regular speaker at
conferences, most recently at EBEC / NextGen this week (on anaerobic digestion), before that at some RICS conferences for surveyors and at Energy Now in February on the impact of European legislation – a topic quite close to the “how will European Energy policies effect the bottom line of your company?”
[email protected] David Olivier - Energy Advisory Associates Ltd. David is uk leading expert on low energy buildings and we will be discussing the costs and benefits of various technologies and reviewing UK and European experience
[email protected] Andrew Mkillop GERMAN ENERGY CRISIS RESPONSE PRODUCES MORE CRISIS
The German 'Energiewende' transition plan is surely the leader program in Europe for applying, and exceeding the goals set by Europe's 2008 climate-energy package, transposed into the laws and energy policies of all 27 member states from June 2009. A lot has happened to both European and global energy since then. Above all the spectre and fear of energy scarcity - meaning high prices - has effectively disappeared, but not the high prices which in Europe are only just beginning. This is the basic problem, which can only become political after further damaging Europe's already damaged and weakened economy.
[email protected] > Neil Crumpton 'A transition to a renewably-powered and carbon-negative UK by 2050' - including the role of hydrogen and its use in industrial and district CHP systems.
The paper/presentation will cover how a transition of the UK energy system to one supplied by intermittent and mostly indigenous renewable energy resources by 2050 could be achieved. Using energy scenarios by decade the presentation illustrates how the system would be balanced and backed-up and what infrastructure would need to be built. This includes the production of hydrogen, its capacity for large-scale seasonal storage, its use in bio-refineries and in transmission networks to industrial and district CHP systems, and its carbon-negative emissions potential.
Neil Crumpton, Chair / co-founder of Planet Hydrogen (a not-for-profit company, registered in 2001, promoting awareness of hydrogen as a green fuel) : degree in electrical engineering, worked as an energy campaigner in Friends of the Earth for 16 years and then the Bellona Foundation (working on carbon-negative energy generation), served on government advisory bodies ACCATs (Advisory Committee on Carbon Abatement Technologies), Cynnal Cymru-Sustain Wales, Welsh Transport Forum and currently a representative for an anti-nuclear community group on DECC and HSE nuclear stakeholder forum