Solar Media launches Clean Energy Summit for 2016
Solar Media, the London-based publisher of Solar Power Portal and Solar Business Focus UK, has rebranded the Large-Scale Solar UK conference as the Clean Energy Summit for 2016
Solar Media, the London-based publisher of Solar Power Portal and Solar Business Focus UK, has rebranded the Large-Scale Solar UK conference as the Clean Energy Summit for 2016.
The Summit will build on the success of the Large-Scale Solar UK conference, and will bring the solar industry together with perspectives from property, infrastructure, transport, public sector, finance and corporate energy users.
Business opportunities have continued to present themselves in the wake of policy upheavals in the industry, with major energy users and public sector bodies pushing forward with PV pipelines.
The Clean Energy Summit identifies this demand and creates a platform on which the solar industry can do business and network.
Confirmed speakers and delegates include solar developers, corporate energy users, local authorities, housing associations, building contractors, project financiers, and major utilities.
The Clean Energy Summit will constitute four specific streams; the Solar Summit; the Energy Storage Summit; and the Corporate Energy and Distributed Generation Forums.
The Summit will take place from 26 to 28 April 2016 at London’s Twickenham Stadium and will be sponsored by Huawei.
Rosie Riley, analyst at Solar Media, said: “The new branding, content and format of the Clean Energy Summit [from Large-Scale Solar UK] is hugely exciting and greatly reflects the changing needs of the UK solar industry as we move to a low subsidy environment. We’re gearing up now and very much looking forward to a great event.”
The Solar Summit will feature sessions on how to access energy users including corporates, industrial or local authorities, successful strategies in a low-subsidy environment, secondary market opportunities, the future of commercial rooftop PV and international markets.
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A diverse group of solar industry speakers will participate, including Lightsource chief executive Nick Boyle, Solarcentury CEO Frans van den Heuvel, Primrose Solar’s Giles Clark as well as the Solar Power Portal Awards 2015 lifetime achievement winner Jeremy Leggett.
Tess Sundelin, Green Hedge managing director and Clean Energy Summit speaker, said: “Seen from both a global and national perspective, the past five years of large-scale solar development in the UK has built up market-leading expertise within the industry. This is now getting deployed in a number of productive directions: consolidation of operating-phase services in the UK, expansion into development of other low-carbon infrastructure in the UK market, specialisation in higher-complexity projects like private wire or on-site generation, and international expansion in other markets.”
Lewis Lee, UK general manager at solar manufacturer Sungrow, said: “[We] feel that although the UK Solar industry will have challenges over the 18 months, the challenges are surmountable. For Sungrow, it is about being able to offer customers even more value for money, by making products increasingly power-dense, at a lower price, whilst maintaining high quality standards. New ranges of high-power equipment are available from Sungrow throughout 2016.”
Further information regarding the summit can be found here, and earlybird ticket options are still available.
