Powering Net Zero

The Energy Institute’s new conference, Powering Net Zero, is designed to discuss ways in which clean electricity and electrification will be essential in reducing emissions globally to net zero.

An increasing number of countries are making commitments to move to a net zero emissions economy. This is in response to climate science showing that in order to prevent the worst impacts of man-made climate change, greenhouse gas emissions must be eliminated, as simply reducing them is no longer sufficient. ‘Net zero’ means that any emissions are balanced by absorbing an equivalent amount from the atmosphere. In order to meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting average global temperature increases to well below 2C, global greenhouse gas emissions must reach net zero sometime between 2050 and 2070.

Electricity and electrification are central to any scenario in which this goal is achieved. The technologies already exist to decarbonise power generation systems and roll out clean electricity into heat and transport – now companies must finalise their strategies to ensure it is reached.

Attend this timely event to:

Hear from expert speakers excelling in this area
Gain key insights into the policies, technologies and people needed to reach net zero
Network with professionals from across the energy sector

COVID-19 Update - Please note that this conference will take place either online or at the Energy Institute head office in London, depending on whether the government lockdown restrictions have been lifted. The Energy Institute has the technology in place to ensure that an online conference will easily facilitate networking with delegates from all over the world, provide interactive sessions with expert speakers, and include plenty of materials and question and answer sessions.

8th October 2020

8.15 - 19:00

Energy Institute

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Prices:

Company member - 300.00
Non-Member - 350.00
Member - 250.00
+ VAT

If you are a company member, please download the booking form to book your place - members and non-members can book online

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Conference summary

The conference will take a global perspective on the range of technologies and the interplay between them. This includes renewable and nuclear power generation, CCUS, electric or fuel cell electric (hydrogen) vehicles, and for heating, the use of heat-pumps, hydrogen, energy efficiency and demand management technologies. Many medium pressure industrial processes can also be converted to use electric furnaces rather than gas.

Programme

Welcome from the chair

Welcome from the Energy Institute

A scene setter from the Committee on Climate Change and moderated discussion

Leadership panel discussion/interview

Challenges, scale of the problem and potential solutions
Decarbonisation of the electricity
Electricity of heating, transport, and power
How is electricity stepping up?
Upgrade the network
Hydrogen and bio-gas

The customer perspective

Insights into new business models – how does demand need to change
Residential consumers and changing consumer behaviours
Industrial, Commercial/Retail and Data Centres
Cities and Local area energy systems – local authorities
Buildings
Transport
Heating and cooling

Generation, interconnections, and storage

How do you make choice, demand changes, how do we meet the challenges?
Overcoming the challenges – impacts to overcoming – technical toolkit – how do you do it in affordable manner?
Constraints – what can be the maximum you can be – capacity you can build – role of producing it
Debate: what makes more sense, what the future mix would be like, interplay between them, unlocking business models
Renewables - Offshore wind, onshore wind and solar, hydro
Flexible generation and storage
Future interconnection
Nuclear - another international operator and their role
Hydrogen and electrolysis or clean/green gas – Northern Gas Networks

Networks - distribution, transmission

How does the distribution network change with DER?
How to integrate high % intermittent renewables?
T&D interface - ESO-DSO interaction
The impact of digitisation
How it all works together
How does the grid and the system need to change and what progress has been made to date?
Investment and infrastructure
Flexible generation and storage

Regulation, policy, and initiatives