Energy & Utility Forum – Funding Renewables
16 June 2011: Auditoriu
m, Allen & Overy 1 Bishop’s Square, E1 6AD*
MORNING
OPENING
BACKGROUND
Anne Baldock
Morning Chairman –
Welcome and Introduction to the New Market Environment
Jonathan Brearley, Director of Energy Strategy & Futures DECC (invited)
The Scope and Effect of Government Policy
Alex Desbarres – Senior Renewables Analyst, Energy & Utilities, Datamonitor
The Background to Funding & Executing Renewables Projects 2011-2015
RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGE
Tom Murley – Director, Hg Capital
What Investment Requires
The Five Must-Haves: Regulation, Planning, Grid, Supply Chain – Funds
For Which Technologies Do We Have Them and is that Sufficient?
Andrew Buglass – Head of Structured Finance, RBS
The New Environment
Where Will the Funds be Deployed?
The Consequences for UK Renewables Projects
Will All Sectors Suffer Equally?
Alex Betts
– Partner, Climate Change Capital PE Fund
Investment Needs
Funds and Uncertainty
The Outcome for Projects
Mortimer Menzel
– Partner, Augusta & Co
The Effect of Recent Policy Changes
The Effect on Funds
Project Impacts
Paul Hennemeyer
– Director, Earth Capital
What Cleantech Investors Seek
Will the Market Live up to Expectations?
Can Developers Overcome the Odds?
Tea/Coffee Break
– Networking
OTHER FORMS OF FUNDING
Wolfgang Bischoff
– MD, Siemens Project Ventures (invited)
Looking for Partners
What We look for
The Investment Environment
Catherine May, Group Director Corporate Affairs, Centrica
Adding Projects to the Portfolio
Discussion Chair:
Brian Count, Chair, Ceres; Progressive Energy, Hon VP Energy & Utility Forum
Energy & Utility Forum – Funding Renewables
16 June 2011: Auditoriu
m, Allen & Overy 1 Bishop’s Square, E1 6AD*
LUNCH & NETWORKING
AFTERNOON
Afternoon Chairman
– David Sowden, Chair Micropower Council
THE PROJECTS’ PERSPECTIVE
Malcolm Brown, C-Founder BW-Energy
How Do Renewables Projects Attract Funding?
Market Structure Requirements
Renewables Projects Requirements
Juliet Davenport
– CEO, Good Energy
Extending Consumption and Generation of Renewable Energy
What Do We Need
The Current Environment
Sean Ebnet, Director of New Business, Drax Power
The Challenges of Building a Biomass Business
The effects of the incentives
The impact on funding
Charles Conner, Founder Ventus cleantech Funds, Director Temporis Wind
The Long-Term Future for On-Shore Wind
What it is
What it could be
Tea/Coffee Break
– Networking
THE PROJECTS’ PERSPECTIVE CONT’D
Jonathan Selwyn, MD, Lark Energy
Executing Large PV Projects in a Shifting Policy Environment
The business proposition
The response of funders
What we can deliver
David Fitzsimmons
– Partner, The Carbon Catalysts Group
The Effect of the FIT Changes
The FIT experience
The long-term potential for solar
Jeremy Allen, Head of DECC Commercial Team (invited)
The Scope and Effect of Government Policy
Discussion Chair: Peter Jones, Director, Waste2Tricity; Advisor on Waste to Mayor of London
18.00
–20.00 Drinks Reception
