Energy Ireland
Renewable Energy Summit 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
- Delivering 80% renewable electricity by 2030
- Realising Ireland’s offshore wind potential
- The role of biomethane and hydrogen in decarbonising Ireland’s gas network
- Renewable electricity and electricity market reforms
- Renewable fuels in transport
- The role of ports in developing the offshore wind energy sector
- Renewable heat sources in Ireland
- Long term storage: facilitating renewable energy penetration
- Enhancing Ireland’s energy security by accelerating renewable energy
- 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
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
Stacy Feldmann Senior Regulatory Manager SSE
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
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:
- MINISTERIAL ADDRESS
Renewable energy: Delivering Ireland’s climate ambition
Eamon Ryan, TD, Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications (Invited) - 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 -
Question & answer session / Panel discussion
11:00
11:30
- A regulatory framework for developing renewable energy
Senior representative,Commission for the Regulation of Utilities - Speeding up permit-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
13:15
14:00
- Chair: Stacy Feldmann, Senior Regulatory Manager, SSE
- 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
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Registration
Delegate rate
€395
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Getting to the venue
Croke Park
Jones' Road
Drumcondra
Dublin 3, Ireland