1. business and industrial
2. energy
3. renewable energy

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Day 1
Wednesday 1st July
Time
0830
0900
0915
Activity
Registration and coffee
Welcome: Win Rampen, Conference Chairman
Keynote Presentation: Rebecca J Barthelmie - Offshore Wind
Energy: Perspectives and Prospects
Rebecca Barthelmie is Croll Fellow and Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. Her research focuses on wind energy resources
and wind turbine wakes with an emphasis on large offshore wind farms. She is author of more
than 110 journal papers, 11 book chapters and 400 conference papers and reports and is co-chief
editor of the journal Wind Energy. In 2009 she received the annual scientific award from the
European Wind Energy Academy for ‘her extraordinary efforts and achievements in the field of
wind energy research’.
1000
1120
1140
1300
1340
Parallel Session Wed_1a
Parallel Session Wed_1b
Energy Storage and
Economics and Cost Analysis
Wind Energy
Refreshment break
Plenary Session Wed_2: Thermal Storage and Power to Gas
Lunch
Keynote Presentation: Alastair Martin - What Electricity Utilities
Want from Energy Storage
Alastair Martin is the founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Flexitricity a Scottish company
which partners with businesses throughout the UK to provide a low carbon source of reserve
electricity to the National Grid. He is a professional energy engineer with experience ranging
from large coal and nuclear power stations, through industrial energy efficiency, to small wind,
solar, biomass and hydro generators.
1420
Plenary Session Wed_3: Control Strategies
1540
1550
1600
Industry pitches
Refreshment break
Demonstration at FloWave, Ocean Energy Research Centre
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Day 2
Thursday 2nd July
Time Activity
0900 Arrival and coffee
0915 Keynote Presentation: Eric Ingersoll – Can We Get Back What
We Put In?
Eric Ingersoll is an entrepreneur, inventor, policy expert, and strategic advisor with more than
20 years experience in the energy sector. Until 2013, he was a founder, the lead inventor and
CEO of General Compression, a utility-scale energy storage company, which raised $100M.
He is currently a Senior Advisor to the Global Innovation Division of Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries; a Managing Partner of Zenergy Holdings; a member of the board of the Clean Air
Task Force; a founder and Director of the Energy Options Network; and was honoured as a
Champion of Change at the White House for his work in renewable energy.
1000
1120
1140
1300
1340
Parallel Session Thu_1a:
Parallel Session Thu_1b:
Compressed Air Energy Thermal Storage and Materials
Storage
Refreshment break
Plenary Session Thu_2: Energy Storage Technologies
Lunch
Keynote Presentation: Simon Forrest – Practical Commercial
Applications for Energy Storage and Marine Energy
Simon Forrest is the founder and Managing Director of Nova Innovation Ltd. with
over 20 years’ industrial experience. Previously he worked in hi-tech manufacturing for
IBM across Europe and Asia and in investment banking in London and New York.
Nova Innovation is a world-leading tidal energy technology company. In 2014 the
company delivered the world's first community owned tidal energy project and in 2015
will deploy the world's first in-sea tidal turbine array in the Bluemull Sound in
Shetland.
1420
Plenary Session Thu_3: Energy Storage and Tidal Energy
1540 Industry pitches
1600- Industry exhibition and networking - drinks and canapés
1700
1900
Conference banquet at Edinburgh Castle and private viewing of
the Scottish Crown Jewels and Stone of Destiny
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Day 3
Friday 3rd July
Time Activity
0900 Arrival and coffee
0915 Keynote Presentation: Richard Green – Storage in the Energy
Market
Richard Green is the Alan and Sabine Howard Professor of sustainable Energy Business
at Imperial College Business School. He has been studying the economics and regulation
of the electricity industry for 25 years. He has written extensively on market power in
wholesale electricity markets and has also worked on transmission pricing. More
recently, the main focus of his work has been on the impact of low-carbon generation
(nuclear and renewables) on the electricity market, and the business and policy
implications of this.
1000
1120
1140
1250
1300
Parallel Session Fri_1a:
Parallel Session Fri_1b:
Energy Storage for Grid Energy Storage and Wave Energy
Integration
Refreshment break
Panel Discussion: Affordable Dispatchable Offshore Energy
Panel Members: Representatives from Carbon Trust, Energy
Technologies Institute, Green Investment Bank, Scottish
Government
Closing Comments: Win Rampen, Conference Chairman
Lunch
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