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Gain valuable insights into European renewables through expert content, industry-led discussions,
and networking with the renewable energy development and finance community.
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Panel #1: Development landscape for clean energy projects
Developers across the GB market are grappling with grid connection offers now stretching into the 2030s, although there are initiatives underway by grid operators to bring these dates forward. Meanwhile, a sometimes-uneven planning environment across the country is creating a postcode lottery in terms of potential outcomes.
Panellists will discuss:
• Pathways to clearing grid congestion with National Grid
• Planning experiences across the country
• Observations on NSIP framework for larger projects and potential reform
Networking Lunch
Panel #2: Route-to-market update
An extremely hot power price market just a couple of years ago has now softened considerably. PPA prices are accordingly also down in value, creating the conditions for a highly competitive CfD Allocation Round Six this year, both onshore and offshore.
Panellists will discuss:
• Impact of falling power prices on PPA appetite
• The state of the CfD auction framework
• The forecast for green hydrogen and its impact on offtake options
Networking Coffee Break
Panel #3: Capital markets outlook for renewables
Macroeconomic conditions continue to combine with lower revenues to create a markedly changed financing landscape compared with the past few years, both in terms of cost of debt as well as transaction structures. Options are opening up however, with developers now routinely able to find platform-level equity or tap into a burgeoning development loan offering from a select group of lenders.
Panellists will discuss:
• Debt outlook for merchant solar and wind projects
• Obstacles and solutions to funding emerging battery energy storage markets
• Strategies developers are taking to growing their platforms
Networking Drinks
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Sulaiman is Head of Policy and Strategy for Renewable Delivery at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Sulaiman previously served as a Policy Fellow at University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy and has a BA at Oxford, MPhil at Cambridge.
Giles has 15 years’ experience in the renewable energy and storage industry. Previously as Director at Savills, he helped set up and lead the roll out of solar rooftop investment for private and institutional clients. More recently, he was CEO and founder at Cambridge Power who developed one of the leading distribution connected battery storage portfolios in the UK.
Stefano is the CEO of NatPower UK, one of the largest renewable energy developers in the UK. Its 60GWh pipeline of battery storage projects makes it the largest portfolio of storage in the country.
Stefano has over 20 years’ experience in the energy transition space. Prior to founding NatPower, he was very early to the sector, setting up one of the first wind and solar companies in Southern Europe, Enexon, in 2005, followed by NextEnergy, an FCA regulated asset manager specialising in renewable energy, in 2007, and WiseEnergy, a global smart renewables operator and investor with $5.6bn of asset value served, in 2008.
He has also worked as a professor at the Universita Bocconi in Milan, one of the world’s leading universities and business schools (SDA Bocconi), lecturing and researching on Strategic Planning & Control and Business Process Design.
James has over a decade of experience working in commercial roles within the energy industry for leading companies such as RWE, EDF, Pexapark, and now Brookfield. At Brookfield, James specialises in managing strategic relationships with global power consumers within the centralised Key Account Management function. He also supports Brookfield’s portfolio companies in negotiating and executing structured power deals, such as Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs).
Jack has 10 years experience in the energy industry, predominantly focused on project finance off-take agreements in GB. He previously worked as a utility and corporate PPA originator for SmartestEnergy and Centrica. Jack also has experience in M&A and in the energy markets team at a boutique investment bank, advising clients on their off-take arrangements alongside the raising of senior financing for client’s portfolios. Jack joined Pexapark in 2022 and advises on PPA transactions across Europe. He holds a Master of Mathematics and Physics and Bachelor of Science from the University of Warwick.
James is a partner in Gowling WLG's energy practice. He advises clients on a wide range of complex commercial and regulatory matters in the energy sector. James has over 15 years' experience in the energy sector and has a detailed knowledge of energy sector legislation, industry codes and incentive schemes. James advises a wide spectrum of energy market participants, including market leading offtakers, major utilities, energy traders, suppliers, network owners and operators, lenders, developers and managers of industry codes.
Gauri is a project finance specialist and senior director in Siemen Bank’s project and structured finance team. She has more than 20 years of in-depth experience in the energy and renewables sector. She has led deal teams on a number of notable transactions in the UK and Europe ranging across all technologies from wind (onshore and offshore), solar, biomass, WtE, biogas, hydro and complimentary infrastructure including batteries and flexible generation.
She has led on a number of landmark transactions including platform financings for Ventient Energy, Octopus Energy, Greencoat Wind, NTR, LightsourceBP, JPMAM, Saeta Yield, EIP and other clients for multiple technologies to grow cross-border renewable portfolios. These transactions have involved a mix of offtake structures and project pipelines in various stages of development. Gauri is focussed on the energy transition through established technologies but also working on carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and green fuels including decarbonisation of hard to abate sectors.
Prior to joining Siemens, Gauri was Head of Energy at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management for 3 years, having previously worked in the Project Finance at Natwest (formerly RBS) for 14 years. As a thought leader in the sector she is a regular speaker on panels and at conferences.
Ms. Smith-Maxwell has successfully advised on more than 4GW of renewable energy power projects including onshore wind, solar and biomass technologies. Her clean technology expertise includes behind the meter storage and battery manufacture technologies
Rosalind was a Vice President at Fieldstone Private Capital Group between 2015 and 2020, where she focussed on transactions located in Europe and Africa. Prior to joining Fieldstone she was at Climate Change Capital for seven and a half years
She holds a BSc in Genetics from the University of Edinburgh, and was called to the Bar in 2009, after being awarded the Jules Thorn scholarship by Middle Temple
Simon has over 25 years’ M&A, corporate finance and private equity experience in London and Edinburgh. He started his career at Rothschild in the late 1990s and spent the first 8 years of his career working across multiple sectors before his passion for the environment led him to specialise in renewable energy in 2007.
Prior to joining Aukera Simon was the Chief Investment Officer at Red Rock Power, an Edinburgh-based onshore and offshore wind developer, and before that he was a member of the European Renewable Energy team at The Carlyle Group.
Jean-Baptiste Delattre joined the Renewable Energy team in January 2018 as Principal. He began his career in 2006, leading the Maintenance team at an ArcelorMittal site. After that he went on to take over the central team responsible for the Group’s global energy supplies. Before joining Omnes Capital, he was in charge of Strategic Energy Partnerships, notably for cogeneration plants and energy efficiency projects in Europe. Jean-Baptiste Delattre is a graduate of the Centrale Supélec engineering school and also holds an Executive MBA from London Business School.
Nath is a highly regarded finance lawyer who specialises in complex, multi-source debt and equity investments, and helps clients in the renewable energy and infrastructure sectors.
A proactive adviser, Nath works with lenders and borrowers on major financing transactions, including the funding and refinancing of significant renewable energy assets such as wind farms, solar farms, biomass plants and geothermal energy projects.
Alongside renewables, Nath is a renowned adviser to clients that want to finance social and transport infrastructure initiatives, including rail, airport and digital infrastructure projects.