UK: The world’s best offshore opportunity

Lunchtime Seminar
Wednesday 16 September 2009, 12.15-14.10
Room K23, Stockholm International Fairs
(Stockholmsmässan)

Target audience

The target audience for this event was for those companies and organisations interested in hearing more information about:

  • the business opportunities that are coming out of the UK’s expansion;
  • an overview of the UK market, supply chain capabilities and growth prospects;
  • UK Government actions to deliver this growth and overcome challenges such as grid connections, planning, supply chain, project economics and aviation/radar issues.

The event was organised by the UK Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) and was aimed at those looking to create partnerships with the UK, or considering the UK as a place to invest.

There were also multiple opportunities to meet with UK Government representatives, UK trade associations and individual UK regions that form part of the UK offering.

 

Preliminary seminar programme

12.15-12.30

Lunch & welcome by John Buckley
DECC’s UK Renewables Service

12:35-12:50

Duarte Figueira, Head, Office for Renewable Energy Deployment (ORED)
Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
Delivery of Targets; Overcoming Barriers, Providing for Growth
UK Government overview – DECC/UK Trade & Investment (UKTI)
Overview of The Office of Renewable Energy Deployment (ORED)

12.50-13.00

Bruce Valpy, DECC’s UK Renewables Service

The business opportunities of the UK Wind Industry
• Including: Structure of the Industry in UK; Regions, Government,
BWEA, R&D, Crown Estate
• Indication of future capacity, targets and growth prospects to 2020
(detail by TCE below)
• Supply Chain Capacities by Sector (inc Ports); Investment
Opportunities
• Inward investment opportunities (preview)

13.00-13.10

Alastair Dutton, The Crown Estate

Offshore Wind Development Rounds – The Crown Estate
• An overview of rounds 1, 2 and 3 and the current project status. The extension of the round 2 time frame and the positive incentive for doing so.

13:10-13:25

Speaker TBC, Skykon
UK company case study: setting up business in the UK

13.25-13.35

Hans Kjellberg, Investment Advisor, UK Trade & Investment
UK Government services offered to support inward investment

13.35-13.45

Question and Answer

13.45-14.10

Networking with other UK stakeholders and table discussions

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