Registration And Morning Refreshments

Chair's Opening Remarks 

Nils Lehmann, New Ventures Manager - Innovation, The Carbon Trust

UNDERSTANDING REGULATORY AND LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AS WELL AS STAKEHOLDER INTERESTS

Legal Update On Aligning Energy Storage Classification And Business Requirements 

• How to get regulation in line with the business case and why the current classification of storage is inefficient 
• What would a different legal status on storage look like in the future?
• How bankable are energy storage assets?
• Creating better contracts by delaying and deferring energy consumption and providing securities for grid interactions

Jonathan Cohen,  Head Of Energy Storage,  Eversheds - Sutherland

Panel: Bringing Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives Together For An Infinitely Connected Energy Network

• How can co-operation support the growth of a new market? 
• What barriers is each market participant experiencing?
• The demand side response to energy storage and its capabilities
• How will the system operator respond to having more wind on the grid and what impact will storage capabilities have?
• Balancing demand connections as a utility

Chair: Nils Lehmann, New Venture Manager - Innovation, Carbon Trust

Panel Participants:

Mike O'Hare,  Senior Development Manager,  National Grid

Hayden Postle-Floyd,  Project Co-ordinator,  Camborne Energy Storage

Imran Abbasi,  Business Development,  AES Energy Storage

Morning Refreshments And Networking Opportunities

The Commerical Case For Battery Storage For UK Wind & Solar Developers 

• The rationale for energy storage in the UK
• Projects undertaken by National Grid in conjunction with existing solar and wind farms
• How stacking revenues are being used
• Developing an integrated system and business model

Mike O'Hare, Senior Development Manager, National Grid

INSIGHTS GAINED FROM CURRENT WIND AND SOLAR ENERGY STORAGE PROJECTS

Camborne Energy's Co-Location Of Solar And Storage Projects

• The benefits and barriers to optimisation of a co-location project
• How the current state of the solar and storage industry can affect project feasilibity and planning
• What is the full potential of solar and storage for individual business? and for a large scale interconnectected energy network?

Hayden Postle-Floyd,  Project Co-Ordinator,  Camborne Energy Storage

Batwind At Hywind Scotland: Piloting Wind Connected Storage

• Statoils strategic transition and why has it entered the battery storage market?
• Batwind: What we are looking to achieve with the project and challenges faced so far
• Outlook and applications: what is to come in the future?

Asif Hayat, Technical Lead - Offshore Wind Development,  Statoil

Lunch And Networking Opportunities

Case Study: Results From Trial Projects With Flywheel/Battery Hybrid Technology

• How does the hybrid technology work?
• Project objectives and how it has performed
• What lessons can be learned and can they be applied to other projects being implemented?
• Getting validation of the project with the system operator

Peter Duffy,  Vice President, Schwungrad Energie

MAKING THE BUSINESS CASE AND FINANCIAL INVESTMENT MECHANISMS INVOLVED

Is There A Business Case To Integrate Storage With Renewables?

• The financial drivers and revenue streams available
• What are the technical, regulatory and cost barriers?

• How to size storage for a behind-the-meter project

• What does the business case look like?

David Cunningham, Principal Financial Analyst, Wood Group Clean Energy

From Identification To Realisation Of Opportunities For The UK From Storage

• Assessing the system benefit for the UK, from storage
• Developing aligned business models for industry stakeholders
• Policies which can support the long-term development of a viable storage industry
• Increasing the attractiveness of investments into storage solutions

Nils Lehmann, New Ventures Manager- Innovation, The Carbon Trust

Joint Presentation: Qualifying Energy Storage From An Investor's Perspective

• Which type of investors are currently looking at storage assets?
• What contracts are most attractive to investors?
• The size of investment, that investors are seeking
• How to attract investment with the lower cost of capital and what is required?

Ed Reekie, Director, Oxford Capital

Steven Mandel, Vice President, Denham Capital

Afternoon Refreshments And Networking Opportunities

Panel: The Viable Market For Energy Storage In The Future

Round Tables

Delegates will select one of the following peer-to-peer discussions from the strategic or technical streams listed below. You will move into small break-out groups where discussions will be led by an expert on the given topic. Delegates are encouraged to bring along their considered ideas and questions in order to facilitate a meaningful and in-depth discussion.

STRATEGIC

The Trilemma Of Renewables

A Multi-use storage systems: how does value stacking for battery energy storage systems work most economically and which future developments can be expected?

Host: Julia Badeda, Manager Business Development Stationary Storage Systems, BatterieIngenieure GmbH

B How can the business case be simplified in order to create more interest and investment in storage?

Host: Mike O'Hare, Senior Development Manager, National Grid

C How big is the potential for energy storage in different markets and industries?

Host: Paul Gardner, Global Segment Leader, DNV GL

TECHNICAL

D How can software and energy management systems be best utilised for storage projects?

Host: Matthew Rowe, Consultant, DNV GL

E Where and when are flow batteries best utilised and how can the technology be advanced further?

Host: Dr. Jaqcqueline Edge, Energy Storage Coordinator, Imperial College London

Roundtable Feedback

Discussion leaders will be given the opportunity to share the fruits of their groups' labour and address the room on the main areas covered

Chair's Closing Remarks

Nils Lehmann, New Ventures Manager - Innovation, The Carbon Trust

End of Day One