Reuters Events - New Energy Insight Hub:

Exploring Offshore & Floating Wind Supply Chain Growth - 2021 Challenges and Opportunities

Featuring insight from:

• Ralph Torr, Programme Manager (Floating Wind), ORE Catapult [moderator]
• Monika Morawiecka, CEO, PGE Baltica
• Emily Northridge, Offshore Wind Associate, Carbon Trust
• Tony Appleton, Director of Offshore Wind, Burns & McDonnell

Combining Local Content and Global Industrialization: Challenge for Commercial Floating Units

Featuring insight from:

• Laurent Schneider-Maunoury, CEO, Naval Energies
• Christophe Dorignac, Industrial and Marine Operations Manager, Naval Energies
• Ignacio Pantojo, Floating Offshore Wind Department Manager, Iberdrola

Offshore Wind in Asia-Pacific: Market Update

• Which global developers have entered the Asian market and why now
• Key markets to target, including South Korea, Japan and Taiwan

Oil and Gas Majors in Floating Wind - Opportunities Ahead

• How Oil and Gas majors are shaking up the Floating Wind Market
• What expertise can be transferred to accelerate the industry
• Speakers from Shell, Equinor, Aker Solutions and Quest FWE

Renewable Energy PPAs: Buyers, Sellers and Lenders

Featuring insight from:

• Carsten Brinck, Managing Partner & Senior Advisor, Brinckmann Group
• Doreen Abeysundra, Senior Originator, Vattenfall
• Natasha Luther-Jones, Global Co-Chair, Energy and Natural Resources Sector, DLA Piper
• Karin Schramm, Senior Director at Bayerische Landesbank

Adapting and Overcoming Disruption: Offshore Wind Amidst COVID-19

Featuring insight from:

• Gunnar Herzig, Managing Director, World Forum Offshore Wind
• Jing Liu, Sector Lead of Power & Utilities, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe
• Pieter Marinus, General Counsel & Investment Relations Director, Parkwind

Offshore and Floating Wind: How to Open Key New Markets for Substantial Commercial Development

Featuring insight from:

• Dominic Grocott, Head of European Wind Projects, New Energy Update
• Gunnar Herzig, Managing Director, World Forum Offshore Wind
• Clément Weber, Director, Green Giraffe

Global Deployment Opportunities for Floating Wind Turbines

Featuring insight from:

• Dominic Grocott, Head of European Wind Projects, New Energy Update
• Paul Hillegeist, President, Quest Floating Wind Energy
• Henrik Baltscheffsky, CEO, Hexicon
• Erik Rijkers, Director Market Development & Strategy, Quest Floating Wind Energy

Presentation: Equinor’s Hywind Floating Wind Case Study

• Inside the Project: The number of turbines used, equipment suppliers and combined capacity
• O&M and Costings: Operational strategy and cost trends
• Looking ahead: Equinor’s overall Floating Wind strategy

Whitepaper: Floating Wind Market Update

• Identifying Key Growth Regions - Including Ireland, Scotland, France, Japan, South Korea and West Coast US
• Engaging the Supply Chain - The challenges for developers and the role of the OEM, Mooring Systems, Vessels, Ports and more
• Cost Trends and Financing Floating - Investment updates and CAPEX trends, signally where the industry is headed

Whitepaper: Offshore Wind Market Trends and Insights

• Pinpointing Opportunities globally - with case study examples of the Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Spain, South Korea, eastern USA and many more!
• Tenders & Project Pipelines - where resources are being allocated and who’s winning bids
• Zero Subsidy in Europe and the rise of PPAs - how financing Offshore Wind is evolving and the opportunity at hand

Industry Leaders Webinar In Collaboration With Power Factors:

Now What? Adapting to the New Normal for Renewable Asset Managers

• Discuss lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic so far and understand changes being made now across the industry to ensure better preparation for the future
• Assess what steps can be taken so organizations across renewable energy come out of this; stronger than before, more resilient, smarter and safer

With Speakers:

• Steve Hanawalt, EVP and Co-Founder, Power Factors
• Kevin Devlin, Senior Vice President, Pattern Energy Group
• Adele Ara, Director of Asset Management, Lightsource BP
• Mark McLanahan, CEO at MaxGen Energy Services
• Paula Renedo, Global O&M Manager, Opdenergy

Wind Operations Webinar: Transitioning to Dispatchable Production & Management

Presenters:

• Amelie Wulff, Global Leader Hybrid Solutions, GE Renewable Energy
• Juanita Ojeda Hybrids Marketing Leader, GE Renewable Energy
• Martijn Huibers Team Lead Storage, DNV GL

Wind Operations Webinar: Linking O&M data to financial engineering for maximizing wind power asset value

Presenters:

• Gareth Brown,CEO, Clir Renewables

Finance acquisition strategies for renewable gas projects

Olivier Guerrini, Vice President, Gas, Renewables & Power Biogas Division for Total focuses on:

• What is needed from a global perspective for the biogas and renewable natural gas industries to scale up and increase competitivity
• All you need to know about public-private partnerships to balance the use of innovative technologies, sharing of project costs and risk allocation for project success
• How public funds can be used to leverage private financing and long term fixed priced contracts

Tackling finance issues for biogas-RNG projects

The thought leaders who joined the discussion:

• Tim Olson, Senior Policy Advisor – California Energy Commission
• John Dannan, Vice President - Generate Capital
• Jon Ellis, Vice President, Alternative Energy Finance - Crestmark Bank
• Richard Nordin, Managing Director - Plasma Development
• Mark Riedy, Partner - Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

Key takeaways:

• How public funds can be used to leverage private financing and long-term, fixed priced contracts
• How sizeable a grant needs to be to attract private investment
• What other factors are significant and what is their impact on the finance your project
• What is required to form innovative public-private partnerships that would balance the use of innovative technologies, sharing of project costs and risk allocation for your project’s success
• What is the tipping fee needed for a project to be financeabl

Exploring oil price crash effects on biogas and renewable natural gas [RNG] demand

Speaker:

• Harrison Clay, Vice President Strategic Development, Global Environmental Products, BP

Decarbonization strategies - the corporate perspective

Speakers included:

• Amit Gudka, Co-founder, Bulb
• Vaughan Linsday, CEO, ClimateCare

RNG as the Leading Transportation Fuel in North America - Exploring Challenges and Opportunities

Speakers included:

• Andy Dvoracek, VP, AMP Americas
• Harrison Clay, Vice President Strategic Development, Global Environmental Products, BP
• Thomas Lawson, President, California Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition
• Neil Black, President, California Bioenergy
• Johannes Escudero, CEO & Executive Director, Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas

Monetize RNG production for vehicle fuel

Speakers included:

• Nick Lumpkin, Strategic Originator - Environmental Products, BP
• Andy Dvoracek, VP Business Development, AMP Americas
• Mike Koel, President, U.S. GAIN
• Ryan Gach, Manager of Biogas Marketing, Waste Management Renewable Energy

Whitepaper - How can data improve the competitiveness of biogas?

Key topics covered in this paper:

• Does biogas need data applications?
• Mapping the need by technology and market
• Where to apply data and smart technologies?
• The biogas plant of the future
• Outlook and conclusions

Whitepaper - Aiding decarbonization goals: leadership in a time of change

Key topics covered in this paper:

• The immediate outlook for RNG
• Attitudes to waste disposal and low-carbon fuels
• RNG in transportation
• Outlook and conclusions

Whitepaper - Benefiting from the growing market for RNG in transport

Key topics covered in this paper:

• The focus is on California
• Drivers for RNG nationwide
• The impact of agricultural RNG
• Getting gas to customers

Q&A article on challenges and opportunities in the production and utilization of biogas and RNG

Key topics covered in this paper:

• The future outlook for biogas and biomethane
• How biogas and RNG can help achieve our climate goals
• The role that biogas and RNG play in our energy needs
• Sustainability issues in biogas applications and how they can be fixed
• Organizations that drive today’s market and why
• The socio-economic challenges and barriers in production and utilization of biogas and RNG
• The benefits of biogas and RNG in transport