The Summit. Time to Commit.
Programme
2010 is a critical year for commitment to climate change action. Last year the Summit 2009 took place at the peak of the credit crisis. By Summit 2010 the capital markets may still look delicate, and credit hard to obtain. However the clouds of uncertainty will be lifting, and the road to a lower–carbon future can be seen.
The next few years will see the emergence of the real winners, and Summit 2010 will seek to answer two key questions: who will win by committing to clean energy and the carbon markets at scale: and who will win by committing to innovation.
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Interactive Sessions and Studio Discussions
Conversation. Dialogue. Debate. The Summit is punctuated by plenary working sessions, strategy workshops, and studio discussions, each structured around key questions, technology evaluations, war games or scenarios. These sessions leverage the breadth and seniority of participants, and provide a structured way for dialogue with thought leaders, speakers, and other participants.
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Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit Bookstore
New for Summit 2010 we are working with Foyles, a leading London bookstore, to provide a wide selection of topical, relevant and informative books for sale throughout the event. The bookstore will be set up in the Participants Lounge, providing easy access for everyone attending the Summit. Please drop in an peruse the titles at your leisure.
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Keynotes, Insights, Bloomberg New Energy Finance University
The Summit includes select keynotes from the world of industry and policy, whose views on the critical issues of today will frame the direction of those issues tomorrow. Past keynotes have included, Nobuo Tanaka, President of the IEA; Lord Browne, Managing Partner of Riverstone Holdings and former CEO of BP; Minister Ed Miliband, UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate, amongst others. This year will also launch Bloomberg New Energy Finance University, a half day programme before the Summit, open to all participants which presents research and insight into key topics, ranging from forestry to advanced transportation, CCS and stimulus programmes.
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Strategy Breakfasts
Thursday and Friday morning will open with a series of Strategy Breakfasts, hosted and led by our senior Bloomberg New Energy Finance research analysts on the core industries and activities of the low carbon energy economy. Each breakfast will include an analyst presentation followed by an industry panel and participant debate.
Strategy Breakfasts Include:
Thursday 18th March
- Beyond the boom: The wind industry after the financial and regulatory good times
- Large-scale solar projects: Which technology will dominate?
- How to realise biomass value
Friday 19th March
- Electric vehicles: What’s it going to take?
- Opportunities and barriers for carbon capture & storage
- Nuclear energy: A carbon tonic to complement renewable technologies
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New Energy Pioneers
New for Summit 2010, we’ll be unveiling the New Energy Pioneers Programme; which will select and award the top 5 companies which our analysts consider to be the most promising and progressive in the field of clean energy technology and innovation. New Energy Finance’s aim has been to select the future ‘game changers’ of energy production, use, efficiency, transportation, and storage, and to support them in their venture.
Selection Criteria
Drawing upon hundreds of companies from across the globe and spanning all areas of energy, our dedicated team of analysts assessed companies on three criteria; Innovation, Traction and Potential.
Although innovation was the key ingredient, we have been fully aware of the dangers of far-fetched technologies that are either wildly ahead of their time, or simply impossible to implement. Our five winners have also gained tangible and significant investment and have employed their technology in real-life contracts and situations. Finally, the New Energy Pioneers are not only highly innovative, have exciting new ideas and have showed practical examples of their technology working, but we also believe they have the potential to be the leaders of tomorrow, with large-scale industrial adoption in their futures.
The 2010 New Energy Pioneers will be announced on the 17th March 2010.
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Opening Theme Dinners
A very successful addition from last year's programme, the first night of the Summit sees the group split into smaller themed opening dinners, which take the world of carbon, policy and the capital markets as themes this year. Challenging speakers get the debate going, and the fine food and wine flow. This year the themed dinners will be taking place at London's recently opened and wonderfully modern Saatchi Gallery.
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Realising the Offshore Wind Potential Anil Srivastava, CEO of AREVA Renewable, will outline the details of our specifically designed M5000 offshore turbine, our logistics approach and the overall bankability of our offshore package. |
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High Tech and Green How Nano Tubes and Advanced Technologies can become the Energy Game Changer. Presentation and discussion on game changing technologies, like carbon nano tubes, that could impact the future in energy and climate change. |
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Gas and Renewables – Bedfellows or Rivals? The dinner will explore the growing interplay between gas and renewables in the power sector and consider how this may create material opportunities as well as challenges. Each dinner table will explore this theme through a series of key questions posed by industry leaders. |
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The Development of New Energy and the Low-carbon Economy in China A panel, led by Steve Mullinjer Managing Partner Heidrick & Struggles China, including professor Siwei Cheng former Vice Chairman, Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, investment and renewables industry executives will debate the state, development, opportunities and challenges to develop a New Energy and Low Carbon Economy in China. |
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The Role of Private Equity Post Copenhagen Following the Copenhagen COP15 meeting what role will private equity play? Hudson Clean Energy Partners Managing Partners, Neil Auerbach and John Cavalier will each discuss the role of private equity, how it can positively play a role in policy development and why there are lots of reasons to be optimistic about the future of the renewable energy sector. There will be a special appearance by General Sir Richard Dannatt who will discuss the implications of climate change on foreign and defence policy. |
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New Energy Field Trips
New for 2010, the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit is introducing a number of topical New Energy Field Trips in the Greater London area and the Home Counties. They will take place on the Friday afternoon after the official close of the Summit. The New Energy Field Trips will offer participants the chance to visit and learn about some of the UK’s most prestigious and interesting green initiatives, engineering projects, and renewable and low carbon research.
All trips will involve not only extensive tours around the site, but also a short presentation and question time with a resident expert. The New Energy Field Trips will be informative and captivating, and will highlight the UK’s investment and research in new energy initiatives.
British Waterways and Three Mills Island
The London British Waterways tour will include the New House Mill on Three Mills Island in Bromley-by-Bow. The House Mill is a grade-1 listed, 18th Century tidal mill, believed to be the largest tidal mill still in existence in the world. The Bow Back Rivers have been derelict and underused since the Second World War. Today they form part of the 2012 Olympic Park with a new lock and water control structure on Prescott Channel near Bromley-by-Bow. The Three Mills Lock has restored the Bow Back Rivers to navigation, creating a green gateway for construction barges and also reviving water transport in the area for the first time in 50 years.
Carbon Market Simulation
Participate in a live simulation of three types of climate change policies: command and control-type regulation, an emissions trading scheme, and a carbon tax regime. In small teams each representing a different business, participants will have to make strategic decisions in order to comply with the given regulations while minimising their costs. Each team will have to decide what abatement measures to invest in, and fiercely negotiate carbon allowances transactions with other teams during the emissions trading scenario.
This simulation was first played in January by world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It proved to be an engaging way to stimulate and debate different policy mechanisms which address rising greenhouse gas emissions.
Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
The Joint European Torus (JET), located at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, is the world's largest and most powerful tokamak. It is designed to study fusion in the conditions approaching those needed for a power plant, and is the only device currently operating that can use the deuterium-tritium fuel mix that will be used for commercial fusion power. The facility is used collectively by all European fusion laboratories, with around 350 scientists from Europe and more from around the world annually participating in JET experiments. The trip gives attendees a chance not only to see the world's largest fusion research programme and look at the tokamak, but also learn first-hand about the planned applications and time-frames for implementation of this dynamic and powerful energy source.
Electric Vehicles Test-drive
The aim of this Bloomberg New Energy Finance Field Trip is to highlight the very real options that are available to us in the electric vehicle market. We will be showcasing the viable long-distance and larger cars that are becoming available to those who want to drive their electric vehicles on trips outside the city limits, as well as displaying several high-tech racing motorbikes. A test-drive will allow you to get a real feel for the handling and performance of the cars, and provide a fun and informative afternoon. You will be offered the chance to drive the Tesla Roadster as well as the Mitsubishi iMiEV. Other vehicles will include a Brammo motorbike and a Cambridge solar car, the Endeavour.
GroDome @ Imperial College
The futuristic £1m greenhouse, known as the GroDome, is the only rooftop facility of its kind in London. It provides Imperial's plant scientists with over 200 square metres of temperature and light controlled growing space for a variety of plant species, allowing them to carry out large-scale plant experiments in an urban location for the first time. Since the structure was completed in April 2009, three projects have already taken root in the GroDome including producing bioethanol from willows. The Bloomberg New Energy Finance Field Trip will start with a seminar given by four of the leading professors and project and business developers from the Porter Institute. You will then be given a white-coat tour of the GroDome itself with PhD candidate Nick Brereton, who has successfully completed the first experiment in the facility. The Field Trip will end with teas, coffees and networking in the glass atrium at the Sir Alexander Fleming building.
Olympic Park Site
The Olympic Park is rapidly forming in front of London's eyes in preparation for the upcoming Summer Games in 2012. An entirely new utilities infrastructure is being installed for the Olympic Park which will not only meet the needs of the Games, but regenerate the Lower Lea Valley. Beyond the sports facilities and infrastructure, and after the Games are completed, the Olympic Park will be transformed into one of the largest urban parks created in Europe for more than 150 years. The Field Trip will be a guided coach trip around the Olympic Park site and key construction points.
Thanet Offshore Wind Farm
The Thanet Offshore Wind Farm project is located approximately 12km off Foreness Point, Kent, and upon completion will be the largest operational offshore wind farm anywhere in the world. The project is due to be completed in 2010. It will cover an area of 35km2, comprising of 100 Vestas V90 wind turbines and have a total capacity of 300 MW. Helicopter tours will give a unique view of the physical scale of such a project, and the geographical necessities of fully harnessing and utilising Britain's world leading wind potential. As the largest offshore wind farm in the world, this is a tremendous showcase of British wind power engineering and potential.
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