The 2020 Irish Renewable Energy Summit will provide a valuable opportunity to bring together the key stakeholders from across the energy sector to discuss how the contribution from renewable energy can be maximised and implemented most effectively.
To date renewable energy has been focused on the electricity sector with 40% of electricity generated from renewable sources.
The Climate Action Plan has an ambitious target of 70% of electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
Central to Climate Action Plan
Although there has been less progress made on renewable sources in the heat and transport sectors, both these sectors are central to the Climate Action Plan: there is an ambitious target to electrify mobility with 950,000 electric vehicles by 2030; and an equally ambitious target to deliver 600,000 renewable energy heating sources in homes and 25,000 in commercial premises.
The out-workings of the plan will see a surge in renewable energy development over the next decade.
The summit will look at the practical implications of the Climate Action Plan to 2030 and how renewables will develop across electricity, heat and transport.
Don’t miss the opportunity to secure your place at Ireland’s major renewables conference. Addressed by local and visiting experts, it is Ireland’s largest and most important conference for the sector and is attended by all the key players.
Key themes for 2020:
- Climate Action Plan and renewable energy policy;
- Implementation of RES-E;
- Next phase of onshore wind development;
- Developing Ireland’s offshore wind resources;
- Future grid to facilitate 70% renewables;
- Decarbonising the gas network with biomethane;
- Electrification of transport;
- Heat in the City: decarbonising heat
Speakers include:
• Richard Bruton, TD, Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment
• William Walsh, chief executive officer, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland
• Janette Webb, UKERC C0-director + professor of sociology of organisations, University of Edinburgh
• Eamonn Confrey, principal officer, Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
• Paul Cooley, director of capital projects, SSE Renewables
• Finn Mortensen, director, State of Green, Denmark
• David Connolly, CEO, Irish Wind Energy Association
• Charlotte Stead, senior policy adviser, Department for Transport, UK
• Jim Gannon, commissioner, Commission for Regulation of Utilities
• Martin Lambert, senior research fellow, Oxford Institute of Energy Studies
• Peter Baillie, managing director, Energia Renewables
• Richard Murphy, partner & head of energy (Ireland), Pinsent Masons LLP
• Nigel Beresford, CEO, Greenlink Interconnector Limited
• Brian Ó Gallachóir, professor of energy engineering, University College Cork, Environmental Research Institute
• Rory Monaghan, NUI Galway and Hydrogen Ireland
View the full conference programme at www.irishrenewableenergy.energyireland.ie
Exhibition opportunities available – contact Olivia Carragher on +353 (0) 1 661 3755 for details.
Don’t miss the opportunity to secure your place at Ireland’s major renewables conference to hear directly from the key players in Ireland's renewables sector, as well as high profile visiting experts.
Register now! Online: www.irishrenewableenergy.energyireland.ie Email: info@energyireland.ie Tel: +353 (0) 1 661 3755 #RESummit