Energy Ireland
Renewable Energy Summit 2024

Accelerating renewable energy delivery in Ireland
Croke Park, Dublin ● Thursday 14th November 2024
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Energy Ireland Renewable Energy Summit 2024 Accelerating renewable energy delivery in Ireland

Energy Ireland’s Renewable Energy Summit, now in its 21st year, is the major event bringing together the renewable energy sector as a whole. Attracting over 200 key stakeholders, attendees will hear from an impressive line-up of expert speakers looking towards Ireland’s renewable energy future. The Government’s Climate Action Plan 23 has set challenging targets for decarbonising the Irish economy. The development of renewable energy sources plays a central part in the plan and includes the following actions by 2030:

✓ 80% of electricity from renewable sources
✓ Develop 9GW of onshore wind energy
✓ Deliver 8GW of solar energy
✓ Bring onstream at least 5GW of offshore wind energy
✓ Develop an additional 2GW of offshore wind energy for green hydrogen production
✓ Achieve a 70-75% share of carbon neutral heating in industry
✓ Install 600,000 heat pumps in residential buildings
✓ Develop up to 0.7 TWh of heating provided by renewable gas by 2030
✓ Increase the fleet of EVs and LEVs on the road to 940,000
✓ Raise the blend of biofuels to B20 in diesel and E10 in petrol

This ambitious plan is against a backdrop of an increasing focus on energy security and a growing climate crisis that has led the IEA to call for a trebling of renewable energy development globally. Whilst Ireland has made good progress in the use of renewable sources in the electricity sector, both the heat and transport sectors have been particularly challenging. The 2024 summit will look across all the sectors at plans to develop existing technologies and will also look at the potential for deploying new technologies such as green hydrogen.

The Renewable Energy Summit 2024 will provide a valuable opportunity to bring together the key stakeholders from across the energy sector, and those who interact with the energy sector to discuss how the contribution from renewable energy can be accelerated. The objective is to create a genuine in-depth understanding of the alternative paths open to Ireland in increasing the contribution from renewable energy sources. It will look at the challenges and opportunities including the planning system, the need for long term energy storage and the skills gaps impacting on the sector. It is the one event that brings together the renewable energy sector as a whole.

Conference themes Themes

  1. Delivering 80% renewable electricity by 2030
  2. Realising Ireland’s offshore wind potential
  3. The role of biomethane and hydrogen in decarbonising Ireland’s gas network
  4. Renewable electricity and electricity market reforms
  5. Renewable fuels in transport
  6. The role of ports in developing the offshore wind energy sector
  7. Renewable heat sources in Ireland
  8. Long term storage: facilitating renewable energy penetration
  9. Enhancing Ireland’s energy security by accelerating renewable energy
  10. Developing Ireland’s renewable energy supply chain

Speakers Confirmed speakers

Lukasz Kolinski Head of Unit, DG Energy European Commission

Paul Lennon Head of Offshore Wind, Hydrogen & Long Term Storage ESB

John Reilly

John Reilly is Head of Renewable Energy at Bord na Móna. He is a member of Bord na Móna’s Senior Leadership team with specific responsibility for the operation and continued development of Bord na Móna’s expanding portfolio in the Irish electricity market. His team is currently leading a €1.6 billion investment programme which will see the company add at least 1GW of new renewable assets to its fleet by 2030. John has over 20 years’ experience in the energy sector and was previously part of the senior management team at Edenderry Power, prior to its acquisition by Bord na Móna. He has worked for a number of major international utility players in the sector, such as the German utility E.ON and Fortum, a Finnish utility company. John, who is currently on the Board of the Electricity Association of Ireland, also sits on a number of policy committees across the energy sector and holds a PhD in Chemistry from UCD.
Head of Renewable Energy Bord na Móna

Padraig Fleming Biomethane Programme Manager Gas Networks Ireland

Catherine Banet Professor Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law & Head of the Energy and Resources Law Department University of Oslo

Andrew Edwards-Jones Social Scientist Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Therese Murphy Business Development Manager Cornwall Insight Ireland

Jim Gannon

Jim has been a member of the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) since October 2019 and was appointed Chairperson in February 2023. His lead responsibilities include Consumer Policy and Protection (incl. Legal) and Operations and Organisational Development. Jim previously served as the CEO of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, and before that role worked for 15 years in the private sector within the engineering and energy industry. Jim is a graduate of NUI Galway, the University of Wales Aberystwyth and he holds an MBA from the UCD Smurfit School of Business.
Chair Commission for the Regulation of Utilties

David Noronha Head of Future Networks & Strategic Offshore Planning EirGrid

Vida Rozite Energy Policy Analyst IEA

Denis O’Sullivan Director of Assets Bord Gáis Energy

Tony Roulstone Department of Engineering University of Cambridge

Conor O’Dowd CEO The Port of Galway

Georgios Tzounas Assistant Professor University College Dublin

J Owen Lewis Chair IIEA Working Group on Climate and Energy

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Programme Conference Programme

08:15

REGISTRATION AND MORNING COFFEE

09:00

CHAIR'S WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION


J Owen Lewis, Chair, IIEA Working Group on Climate and Energy

09:05

CONFERENCE PLENARY:

  • Renewable energy: delivering secure, clean and affordable energy for Europe
    Lukasz Kolinski, Head of Unit, DG Energy, European Commission
  • Powering the grid with renewable energy
    John Reilly, Head of Renewable Energy, Bord na Móna
  • Developing Ireland’s renewable energy future
    Paul Lennon, Head of Offshore Wind, Hydrogen and Long Term Storage, ESB
  • Empowering people: the role of local energy communities in clean energy transitions
    Vida Rozite, Energy Policy Analyst, IEA
  • A regulatory framework for developing renewable energy
    Jim Gannon, Chair, Commission for the Regulation of Utilities


  • Question & answer session / Panel discussion

10:45

COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK

11:15

  • Speeding up pearmit-granting for renewable energy projects
    Professor Catherine Banet, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo
  • Developing biomethane for a carbon neutral gas network
    Padraig Fleming, Biomethane Programme Manager, Gas Networks Ireland
  • The role of ports in facilitating renewable energy development
    Conor O’Dowd, CEO, Port of Galway
  • Planning for a net zero carbon grid
    David Noronha, Head of Future Networks & Strategic Offshore Planning, EirGrid
  • Question & answer session / Panel discussion

13:00

LUNCH

14:00

  • Progress towards Ireland’s renewable electricity target
    Therese Murphy, Business Development Manager, Cornwall Insight Ireland
  • Ammonia-fired power generation: secure, low carbon energy
    Denis O’Sullivan, Director of Assets, Bord Gáis Energy
  • Embedding marine net gain for offshore wind farm planning and delivery
    Andrew Edwards-Jones, Social Scientist, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UKERC
  • Addressing the need for large scale electricity storage
    Tony Roulstone, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
  • Challenges of integrating intermittent renewable resources particularly solar PV in the power system
    Georgios Tzounas, Assistant Professor, University College Dublin
  • Question & answer session / Panel discussion

16:00

CHAIR’S CONCLUDING REMARKS AND CONFERENCE CLOSE

Sponsorship & Exhibition

There are a limited number of opportunities to become involved with this conference as a sponsor or exhibitor. This is an excellent way for organisations to showcase their expertise and raise their profile with a key audience of senior decision makers from across Ireland’s renewable energy sector. For further information on how your organisation can benefit, contact Jillian Wallace on +353 (0)1 661 3755 or email jillian.wallace@energyireland.ie
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€395


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Croke Park
Jones' Road
Drumcondra
Dublin 3, Ireland
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