Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit

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Strategy Breakfast - The Transportation Evolution: From Hybrid to Plug-in Hybrid to Electric Vehicle

The dominance of fossil fuels over personal mobility is waning. Do technological advances in energy storage mean that the electric vehicles time has come? Will alternate fuels and electric drive deliver significant emissions reductions? Will they meet consumer needs and expectations? And where will the batteries come from?

Strategy Breakfast - Breaking New Ground: Carbon Capture and Storage on the Verge of Scaling Up

Long talked about as an essential element in curbing CO2 emissions, carbon capture and storage took its first sizeable steps to commercialisation in 2010. Over $20bn in public funds have been pledged to build large-scale demonstration projects, and incentive plans worth billions more are under consideration in legislative chambers. But are these public funds enough to drive development and bring the technology down the cost curve? Can government incentives make CCS profitable in the near-term? Are CCS economics the true barrier to its deployment, or do regulatory or geologic issues pose greater challenges?

Strategy Breakfast - Nuclear Energy: Talking About Next Generation?

Nuclear energy provides 70% of the carbon-free electricity generated today. Its proponents contend that without it, achieving the world's emission reduction goals will be impossible. In Washington and in Whitehall, nuclear is riding a wave of support, and even Germany and Italy appear to be returning to the nuclear fold. What will be role of the new modular technologies and what are the investment opportunities? How will a nuclear renaissance complement the growth of renewables?

Break

Keynote - Cracking the CoDE: Key Findings from the Consortium on Digital Energy

Bloomberg New Energy Finance's Consortium on Digital Energy (CoDE) brings together expertise from the energy, information technology, and communications sectors to create a converged perspective on the development of tomorrow's energy systems, and how they will achieve the transformation from analogue to digital. Here we present some important and not entirely intuitive findings from CoDE.

Studio Discussion - Digital Energy: Does Intelligence Lead to Happiness?

The introduction of intelligence into the world's power network is an essential enabler of the shift to a lower-carbon, decentralised energy system. But just how realistic is the dream of a smart grid? Are the benefits as substantial as hoped? Which communication technologies and standards will prevail? How will the data be secured and managed? And above all, will the smart grid be a driver of regulation or deregulation?

Eye Opener - Racing Green Endurance

Interactive Session - Financing the Game Changers

The next generation of game-changing energy players faces great financing challenges in the years ahead. Compared to public markets activities in the sector, are private investment strategies such as venture capital the best models for financing the industry's future leaders? What should the state do to help companies overcome the valley of death and ramp up their technologies? What risks do investors face in committing funds to change and how can they be sure that now is the time to commit - in scale, in technology, and in scope?

Summit Close

Closing Buffet Lunch

British Waterways and Three Mills Island - London

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 - InterContinental London Park Lane Hotel

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 game was first played in January by world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It proved itself an engaging way to stimulate and debate different policy mechanisms which address rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Culham Science Centre - Abingdon, Oxfordshire

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 - Daytona Sandown Park

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 Baramno motorbike and a Cambridge solar car, the Endeavour.

GroDome, Imperial College - London

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 - London

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 - Foreness Point, Kent

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.