Our Previous Agenda
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09:00 -
09:15
Main Conference Room
Keynote Opening
What is driving the energy storage industry at the moment, and adversely, what is holding it back? This scene-setting talk will start by looking at the incumbent lithium-ion and focusing on challenges when it comes to decarbonising the mineral, ensuring sustainable production and future availability for the market. We need to have back-up options to ensure we don’t get past the point of no return, with over-reliance on one technology and the market ends up stagnating. Gerard’s talk will set the scene for later discussions around energy security, investment strategies, supply chain issues, differing markets and how the industry can rally together to solve these problems as quickly as possible.
Speaker
09:15 -
10:00
Main Conference Room
Keynote Panel One
This opening session will shed light on what needs to happen to ensure the power grid is fit for purpose, resilient and flexible.
- How are key players planning to power up for the future, cope with increased demand and what is the role that storage will play to enable this transition?
- The world has changed significantly in the past few years, how have these changes affected future planning for networks and grid operators and what do their roadmaps look like for energy storage?
- Limited natural gas supply across the continent and global unrest cause uncertainty for the future, coupled with rising prices – what does the state of the global gas markets mean for energy storage?
Moderator
Speakers
10:20 -
10:40
Main Conference Room
Presentation
10:40 -
11:00
Main Conference Room
Presentation
- The status quo of the energy storage market
- Concerns and difficulties that customers may be facing
- What Trina Storage can do to help
- Key contributing factors to project success and returns
Speaker
Investment Strategies
Deployment: C&I Insights, Fire Safety & Co-Location
Is the World Ready for Long Duration?
11:00 -
11:40
Room One
Fireside Chat
Join a behind the scenes recording of Quentin and a special guest (to be announced!) delivering their insightful and fun podcast series live on stage at the Energy Storage Summit, with the opportunity for Q&A afterwards.
Speaker
11:00 -
11:20
Room Two
Presentation
- Co-location contract structures & PPA models
- Hybrid project valuation techniques
- Pexapark’s Forward Hybrid Curves & Hybrid PPA Pricing
Speaker
11:20 -
12:00
Room Two
Panel Discussion
Every colocation project is different meaning that there is no one size fits all in terms of best practice for developing projects. Big wins can be made when collocating assets by addressing:
- The impact on metering and how developers can determine how much energy is green vs brown.
- The impact of AC vs DC coupling on the profitability of co-located assets.
- Which technologies best support AC and DC coupling?
- How to overcome logistical challenges to collocate generation and storage assets.
- Contracts for Difference: clause amendments enabling solar plus storage and what this actually means for those considering co-location.
Speakers
11:00 -
11:20
Room Three
Policy Update and Spotlights
Long-duration has been around for a long time, but the urgency to find a scalable solution offering longer-duration and alternatives to lithium-ion energy storage is growing on a daily basis. This opening session will set the scene on what is needed at a policy level, what is already happening and where the market needs to be in the short-term. We will then hear about some of the closer to market technologies in a ‘lightning round’, followed by roundtable discussions with key stakeholders and experts.
Speaker
11:20 -
11:40
Room Three
Presentation
Speaker
11:40 -
12:20
Room One
Panel Discussion
- Choosing whether to finance projects through equity or debt.
- How to gain investor confidence by modelling the revenue potential more accurately.
- To what extent will investors back projects in which optimisers guarantee the revenue despite merchant risk?
Speakers
12:00 -
12:20
Room Two
Presentation
- Energy crisis and challenges
- Advanced battery technologies for long lifetime and secure energy storage
- Optimal design of energy storage system for lower LCOS
Speaker
11:40 -
12:30
Main Conference Room
Panel Discussion
- Identifying which energy storage technologies will be ready for commercial use in the short, medium and long term.
- How to avoid being constrained to specific storage technologies.
- Considering the merits and drawback of various control systems to use.
- How to decide which technologies are best for which applications.
Speakers
Senior Vice President, Strategy, Corporate Development and Investor Relations,
Energy Dome
11:50 -
12:20
Room Three
Lightning Round
This is your chance to hear about the benefits and pitfalls of some of the storage technologies out there which aren't at the scale of lithium-ion, but are edging closer to taking a larger market share. Technology providers will take part in a 'lightning round' where they pitch their technology to the audience, followed by the option to join discussion tables after the pitches.
12:20 -
12:40
Room One
Presentation
- What are the data communication solutions and ICT technologies that companies can invest in to increase the productivity and sustainability for its BESS projects?
- Integration headwind – protocol flexibility and complexity
- Operational headwind – Total Cost of Ownership.
- Sustainability headwind – system optimization and continuous improvement.
Speaker
12:40 -
13:30
Room One
Panel Discussion
As size and complexity of energy storage projects increase, how is the most value captured through optimisation?
- Optimisation tools: AI or human interaction vs a mix of both?
- Aligning trading techniques with weather data.
- Deciphering which markets to play in.
Moderator
Speakers
12:20 -
13:10
Room Two
Panel Discussion
Each energy storage project has unique characteristics including the location and the technologies being used. Consequently, a bespoke approach to protect against fires for each project must be undertaken. This session discusses the best approaches to:
- Identifying the different fire safety risks when developing and operating a battery.
- Designing energy storage projects that are safe by considering the different specifications for batteries.
- Limiting the different types of distresses such as electrical and mechanical.
- Reducing the costs of insurance and risk of litigation.
- Understanding which fire suppression systems to deploy.
Moderator
Speakers
12:20 -
12:50
Room Three
Lightning Round
This is your chance to hear about the benefits and pitfalls of some of the storage technologies out there which aren't at the scale of lithium-ion, but are edging closer to taking a larger market share. Technology providers will take part in a 'lightning round' where they pitch their technology to the audience, followed by the option to join discussion tables after the pitches.
Investment Strategies
Deployment: C&I Insights, Fire Safety & Co-Location
Is the World Ready for Long Duration?
14:30 -
15:10
Room One
Panel Discussion
- How can current lenders ensure financing for up to 10GW of predicted storage in the UK?
- What needs to happen to encourage more lenders into the UK debt financing space?
- What role do traditional energy companies and utilities have in helping to solve the challenges of renewables financing.
- Benefits of working with a debt advisory firm.
Moderator
Speakers
14:30 -
15:10
Room Two
Panel Discussion
- Predictive maintenance.
- Technology options and solutions for making sure fire safety isn’t a concern.
- Using artificial intelligence, automation and analytics software in battery systems.
- Prolonging the lifetime and efficacy of the battery by using analytics to monitor stresses.
Moderator
Speakers
14:30 -
15:10
Room Three
Panel Discussion
- What functions can LDES assets provide and what sources of revenue can these projects target?
- How to contract long duration energy storage?
- Is there an optimal capital structure for large projects?
- What alternative revenue streams are available that could make long duration attractive?
- How can regulators best support the case for LDES?
- Are we likely to see a market develop for very long duration storage (ie seasonal storage)?
Moderator
Speakers
15:30 -
16:10
Room One
Panel Discussion
With snowballing issues around grid connections, will we start seeing co-located projects become more favourable and what is the best approach?
- When and where should a battery be operated as a standalone or as a single asset combined with energy generation technologies?
- Who gains more from colocation?
- Solar, wind, storage, electrolysers… up to how many technologies should be hybridised?
- How can total revenue be forecasted accurately? What is the best approach for integrating models for PV, wind and storage?
Moderator
Speakers
19:00 -
23:30
The Steel Yard Club, London
Networking
Join Q & the team at The Steel Yard Club, East London, to unwind after a busy day and enjoy a few drinks in a more relaxed setting.
09:00 -
09:40
Main Conference Room
Keynote Panel One
The UK has published its British Energy Security Strategy, which details plans to ensure energy independence in the face of global tensions, complicated geopolitics and an urgent need for change to happen quickly.
- What are the main barriers standing in the way, and how does the government plan to get round these?
- What steps need to be taken to reduce reliance on other countries and scale domestic capacity and generation?
- What lessons can be learnt from other countries and markets when it comes to gaining energy independence?
- The key to defining and taking advantage of long duration energy storage, understanding how different components can work together and avoiding a ‘tunnel-vision’ view on storage technologies.
Moderator
Speakers
Head of Electricity Storage - Smart Energy,
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
09:40 -
10:00
Main Conference Room
Presentation
Speaker
10:00 -
10:20
Main Conference Room
Presentation
Speaker
Investment Strategies
Is the World Ready for Long Duration?
11:00 -
11:40
Room One
Fireside Chat
Join a behind the scenes recording of Quentin and a special guest (to be announced!) delivering their insightful and fun podcast series live on stage at the Energy Storage Summit, with the opportunity for Q&A afterwards.
Speaker
11:00 -
11:20
Room Three
Policy Update and Spotlights
Long-duration has been around for a long time, but the urgency to find a scalable solution offering longer-duration and alternatives to lithium-ion energy storage is growing on a daily basis. This opening session will set the scene on what is needed at a policy level, what is already happening and where the market needs to be in the short-term. We will then hear about some of the closer to market technologies in a ‘lightning round’, followed by roundtable discussions with key stakeholders and experts.
Speaker
11:20 -
11:40
Room Three
Presentation
Speaker
11:40 -
12:20
Room One
Panel Discussion
- Choosing whether to finance projects through equity or debt.
- How to gain investor confidence by modelling the revenue potential more accurately.
- To what extent will investors back projects in which optimisers guarantee the revenue despite merchant risk?
Speakers
11:40 -
12:30
Main Conference Room
Panel Discussion
- Identifying which energy storage technologies will be ready for commercial use in the short, medium and long term.
- How to avoid being constrained to specific storage technologies.
- Considering the merits and drawback of various control systems to use.
- How to decide which technologies are best for which applications.
Speakers
Senior Vice President, Strategy, Corporate Development and Investor Relations,
Energy Dome
11:50 -
12:20
Room Three
Lightning Round
This is your chance to hear about the benefits and pitfalls of some of the storage technologies out there which aren't at the scale of lithium-ion, but are edging closer to taking a larger market share. Technology providers will take part in a 'lightning round' where they pitch their technology to the audience, followed by the option to join discussion tables after the pitches.
12:20 -
12:40
Room One
Presentation
- What are the data communication solutions and ICT technologies that companies can invest in to increase the productivity and sustainability for its BESS projects?
- Integration headwind – protocol flexibility and complexity
- Operational headwind – Total Cost of Ownership.
- Sustainability headwind – system optimization and continuous improvement.
Speaker
12:40 -
13:30
Room One
Panel Discussion
As size and complexity of energy storage projects increase, how is the most value captured through optimisation?
- Optimisation tools: AI or human interaction vs a mix of both?
- Aligning trading techniques with weather data.
- Deciphering which markets to play in.
Moderator
Speakers
12:20 -
12:50
Room Three
Lightning Round
This is your chance to hear about the benefits and pitfalls of some of the storage technologies out there which aren't at the scale of lithium-ion, but are edging closer to taking a larger market share. Technology providers will take part in a 'lightning round' where they pitch their technology to the audience, followed by the option to join discussion tables after the pitches.
Investment Strategies
Is the World Ready for Long Duration?
14:30 -
15:10
Room One
Panel Discussion
- How can current lenders ensure financing for up to 10GW of predicted storage in the UK?
- What needs to happen to encourage more lenders into the UK debt financing space?
- What role do traditional energy companies and utilities have in helping to solve the challenges of renewables financing.
- Benefits of working with a debt advisory firm.
Moderator
Speakers
14:30 -
15:10
Room Three
Panel Discussion
- What functions can LDES assets provide and what sources of revenue can these projects target?
- How to contract long duration energy storage?
- Is there an optimal capital structure for large projects?
- What alternative revenue streams are available that could make long duration attractive?
- How can regulators best support the case for LDES?
- Are we likely to see a market develop for very long duration storage (ie seasonal storage)?
Moderator
Speakers
15:30 -
16:10
Room One
Panel Discussion
With snowballing issues around grid connections, will we start seeing co-located projects become more favourable and what is the best approach?
- When and where should a battery be operated as a standalone or as a single asset combined with energy generation technologies?
- Who gains more from colocation?
- Solar, wind, storage, electrolysers… up to how many technologies should be hybridised?
- How can total revenue be forecasted accurately? What is the best approach for integrating models for PV, wind and storage?