The Green Register are holding a major event this December which focuses on how we can Power our Buildings for a Cleaner Future. Join them for good networking and festive drinks!
Until very recently, integrating renewable energy technologies into buildings has been a ‘nice to have’ addition, the main barriers being capital costs, competitiveness with fossil fuel energy and scepticism. However, recent evidence shows that these barriers either no longer exist or will soon become invalid.
For example:
- The cost of photovoltaics has plummeted to 70% below 2010 prices (pre-Feed In Tariff)
- In the first quarter of 2016, UK renewables’ share of electricity generation (hydro, wind and other renewables) was 25.1% and rising
- 21st April 2017 was the first day since the Industrial Revolution that the UK has not used any coal for energy generation
- Even hard nosed investors now consider that renewables are competitive with conventional fossil fuel energy, becoming cheaper in the near future (see topdocumentaryfilms.com/breakthrough-renewable-energy)
This conference with bring together a host of experts in the field to discuss:
- Local and national renewable energy policy
- The current and future state of the UK energy mix – what a 100% renewable UK would look like
- Cost comparisons and financial benefits
- Technological innovation in solar, wind and biomass
- Breakthroughs in battery storage for buildings
- Case studies with integrated renewables
There will be an open-to-the public renewable energy exhibition and an electric vehicle will be on display.
Programme
12.00 Event opened by Mark Shelford, Cabinet Member for Transport and Environment, Bath & North East Somerset Council
12.15 Networking and visit to trade stands (open to public); view Kia Soul Electric Vehicle
12.45 Registration & lunch
13.45 Welcome from Amy Robinson, Business Development Manager, Triodos Bank
13.50 Time to get much smarter about renewable energy – the national perspective
Simon Roberts OBE, Centre for Sustainable Energy
National energy policy, regulation and market design – creating the conditions for success.
14.20 The Regional Perspective
Mark Letcher, Project Manager Sustainability, City Innovation, and Sustainability Service, Bristol City Council
Regional resource assessments, local targets & aspiration, the West of England Joint Spatial Plan.
14.40 Towards Subsidy Free Development – the economic context
Philip Bazin, Environment Team Manager, Triodos Business Banking team
How renewable energy technologies now stack up financially.
15.00 Renewable Energy – the Local Perspective
Richard Lowe, Investment Programme Manager, Bristol City Council Energy Service
Council investments in building-mounted PV, Energy targets in the REPLICATE programme and meeting Bristol Core Strategy 14 targets.
15.30 Refreshments
15.50 Invest for a Purpose: Local Authority Opportunities in Solar Power
Leonie Greene, Head of External Affairs, Solar Trade Association
16.20 Buildings as Power Stations – The Active Classroom case study
Joanna Clarke, Building Integration Manager, SPECIFIC
A live case study in Wales demonstrating technologies that generate electricity and heat together with energy storage systems.
16.50 Battery storage – shaking up the way that we provide energy for our homes
Martin Allman, Sonnen Batterie
How battery storage technology and smart business models can be used to change the way that we manage and use energy in our homes.
17.20 The Get it from the Sun (GIFTS) Challenge: supporting local initiatives to keep renewables expanding
Professor Keith Barnham, author of The Burning Answer: A user’s guide to the solar revolution
The GIFTS spreadsheet matches local electricity supply and demand hour-by-hour 24/7, 52 weeks of the year with wind and solar power backed up by flexible bio-electric generation.
17.45 Open panel discussion/roundup chaired by Lucy Pedler, The Green Register
18.00 Drinks and nibbles
18.45 Close
Event Details
Cost: £65 for The Green Register members, £99 for non-members.
Book three places for the price of two!
Booking: Click here to register online.