9:00AM - 9:05AM
Welcome Address from Solar Media Ltd
9:05AM - 9:10AM
Welcome Address from Chair
9:10AM - 9:50AM
High Energy Prices: What Does the Future Hold for the UK Market?
The UK is entering one of the most severe energy crises in decades. It is comparable to the combined impact of the 1970s oil shocks and the Ukraine conflict. Global supply disruptions and escalating tensions in the Middle East are driving volatility. Wholesale electricity prices are rising again. This will place significant cost pressure on UK businesses. This session will explore what this will mean as the market shifts. It will assess how rising prices are expected to reshape energy costs and investment decisions. It will also outline how energy buyers can act to manage risk and support renewable energy strategies.
- Crisis unfolding in real time: Global disruptions and gas linked marginal pricing are expected to drive sustained upward pressure on UK wholesale electricity prices.
- What this will mean for businesses: Rising prices are likely to impact cost structures, procurement strategies, and investment in renewable energy.
- Acting ahead of the curve: Practical approaches, including hedging, contract structuring, and demand optimisation, to manage volatility and unlock long term value.
Speakers
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Matt Parry, Head of Power & Energy Demand, REA
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Simon Wilding, Senior Category Manager – Energy and Utilities, Heathrow Airport
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Rachel Cary, Head of Industrial Strategy, Energy UK
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Gus Majed, Group CEO and Founder, Paratus Group of Companies
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Yassine Bounajma, Category Sourcing Manager - Global industrial vendors, Philips
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Rachel Cary, Head of Industrial Strategy, Energy UK
9:50AM - 10:20AM
The Role of Behind-The-Meter PPA in Delivering Sustainability and Business Competitiveness
Behind-the-meter Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) are emerging as a powerful mechanism for energy-intensive businesses to accelerate decarbonisation while strengthening their commercial position. By enabling on-site generation and efficiency projects without upfront capital investment, behind-the-meter PPAs align sustainability objectives with operational resilience and cost control. We'll explore how PPAs are helping organisations reduce energy costs, cut carbon emissions, and future-proof their operations in increasingly volatile energy markets.
- How behind-the-meter PPAs unlock renewable and efficiency projects by removing capital constraints and delivering immediate sustainability impact.
- The role of on-site generation in reducing exposure to volatile grid prices and improving long-term cost certainty for energy-intensive industries.
- Practical examples of how behind-the-meter PPAs are turning net-zero commitments into measurable operational outcomes.
10:20AM - 11:00AM
Simplifying Complexity –The Future of PPA Design in the UK & Ireland Market
PPA structures are being reshaped by increased price volatility, evolving policy frameworks, and changing buyer risk appetite. The UK and Ireland provide timely case studies of how these pressures are influencing PPA design, while insights from other power markets with comparable characteristics help illuminate which challenges are structural, which are transitional, and which solutions are transferable. This opening keynote panel focuses on how PPAs are being redesigned to remain bankable, flexible, and scalable in a rapidly changing market environment.
- Which approaches to negative pricing, price caps, and market intervention are most effective for responding to volatility in PPA pricing and execution across different market designs?
- Managing Multiple Stakeholders in PPA Transactions
- What are the implications of next-generation PPAs with shorter tenors, hybrid structures, and embedded flexibility for buyers, sellers, and financiers?
11:00AM - 11:30AM
Morning Networking Break
11:30AM - 12:15PM
The PPA Pricing Reset: What It Means for the UK & Ireland
PPA pricing dynamics are shifting across Europe, with declining capture expectations and rising negative price exposure reshaping deal economics. As these pressures filter into the UK and Ireland, buyers and sellers must recalibrate pricing models, structures and risk allocation to sustain transaction momentum.
- How are falling capture rates and widening discounts affecting UK & Ireland PPA valuations?
- Are negative prices and curtailment now central commercial risks rather than contractual edge cases?
- What new structures can bridge the growing gap between buyer fair value and seller return thresholds?
12:15PM - 1:00PM
From Annual Matching to Hourly 24/7 Strategies: Opportunities and Risks
Corporates such as hyperscalers and data centres are shifting from annual REC accounting to 24/7 matching for greater ESG credibility. In the UK and Ireland, this trend intersects with grid congestion and locational pricing reform.
- Why 24/7 matching is gaining traction under Scope 2 frameworks.
- Risks and system impacts: location constraints, flexibility requirements, and cost exposure.
- Practical strategies for implementing hourly matching in constrained UK grids and Ireland’s I-SEM system.
Moderator
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Networking Lunch Break
Day 1 - Energy Buyer Stream
Track:
Day 1 - Energy Buyer Stream
2:30PM - 3:00PM
Managing Risks in Corporate PPAs: Lessons from BAE Systems
Power Purchase Agreements offer long-term price certainty and energy security, but only when risk is clearly understood and managed. In this case study, BAE Systems shares how it set clear PPA guidelines, assessed real versus perceived risk, and aligned commercial, legal, and technical teams to structure successful renewable energy contracts.
- Setting the guardrails: Defining PPA criteria, red flags, and decision thresholds early
- Understanding real risk: Bridging physical energy realities with legal and commercial terms
- Making PPAs work: Structuring wind, solar, and on-site solutions for long-term value
Track:
Day 1 - Energy Buyer Stream
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Case Study: Bristol Port — trying to unlock the Floating Wind Supply opportunity in the Celtic Sea
Bristol Port is seeking to provide infrastructure to support the construction of floating wind turbines, potentially helping to unlock 4.5GW of renewable energy for the UK market. This case study explores how port-led investment can help de-risk project delivery, strengthen supply chains, and benefit the local area.
- How does Bristol Port’s proposed infrastructure enable large-scale floating wind projects?
- How can the port support the growth of the offshore wind market while contributing to Net Zero 2040?
Day 1 - Energy Generators/IPPs Stream
Track:
Day 1 - Energy Generators/IPPs Stream
2:30PM - 3:00PM
Revenue Stacking in UK Renewables: Maximizing Returns in a Shifting Market
- How battery storage operators combine energy arbitrage, balancing mechanisms, ancillary services, capacity markets, and local flexibility to maximize asset profitability
- Navigating declining revenues from saturated services and grid connection delays
- How capacity contracting and aggregation can serve as tools to navigate revenue volatility
Track:
Day 1 - Energy Generators/IPPs Stream
3:00PM - 3:30PM
The Importance of Bankability in a Volatile Time
The renewable energy market has gone through a tumultuous 2 years, completely changing its dynamics. This session will discuss:
- Overview of global manufacturing
- Changing manufacturing dynamics
- The growing importance of bankability
- Forecasts of the renewable market
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Afternoon Networking Break
Day 1 - Energy Buyer Stream
Track:
Day 1 - Energy Buyer Stream
4:00PM - 4:50PM
The PPA Negotiation Challenge: Aligning Developer, Offtaker, and Investor Priorities
Power Purchase Agreements involve multiple parties with competing priorities. Developers seeking revenue certainty, corporate offtakers demanding price stability and flexibility, and lenders requiring bankability. This session explores practical strategies for managing these conflicting interests, identifying common friction points, and structuring deals that achieve financial close while creating value for all stakeholders.
- The distinct objectives of developers, corporate offtakers, lenders, and equity investors and where their interests align and diverge in PPA negotiations
- Where stakeholder interests conflict including contract duration, price indexation, volume risk, curtailment, and termination rights and strategies to find acceptable compromises
- Practical approaches such as hybrid structures, flexible offtake mechanisms, and credit enhancement solutions to balance competing demands and achieve financial close
Moderator
Day 1 - Energy Generators/IPPs Stream
Track:
Day 1 - Energy Generators/IPPs Stream
4:00PM - 4:50PM
Price Cannibalisation in 2026: Managing Revenue Risk in Pay-As-Produced PPAs
High solar and wind penetration in early 2026 is driving wholesale prices to zero or negative during peak generation periods, creating substantial revenue risks for developers with pay-as-produced PPAs. This session explores the drivers and financial impact of price cannibalisation, and how developers can adapt their commercial strategies to protect project returns.
- How high renewable penetration during peak generation periods is driving zero and negative wholesale prices, and the impact on developer revenues under pay-as-produced PPAs
- Analysing frequency and duration of price collapse events in 2026, identifying vulnerable generation profiles, and assessing the financial exposure for solar and wind projects
- Alternative contract structures including baseload PPAs, shaped products, battery co-location, curtailment clauses, and hybrid revenue models to mitigate cannibalisation risk and secure bankable returns
4:50PM - 5:00PM
Closing of Stream from Chairs
5:00PM - 6:30PM
Drinks Reception
8:00AM - 9:00AM
Registration and Refreshments
Day 2 - Energy Buyer Stream
Track:
Day 2 - Energy Buyer Stream
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Behind-the-Meter PPAs: Unlocking On-Site Value in a Complex Landscape
Behind-the-meter PPAs offer corporates direct access to renewable energy and cost savings, but come with unique challenges—from spatial constraints and bespoke contracting to capital intensity and regulatory uncertainty. This session explores how developers, corporates, and financiers are navigating these complexities to unlock the full potential of on-site generation and storage.
- Maximizing limited space, integrating storage, and aligning generation with on-site consumption.
- Navigating bespoke legal frameworks, managing site access, and balancing risk between stakeholders.
- Mitigating risks from evolving grid tariffs, policy shifts, and connection requirements while maintaining financial returns.
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Day 2 - Energy Buyer Stream
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Interactive Roundtables
Roundtable 1: Procuring Renewables Responsibly: Identifying and Managing Supply Chain ESG Risk with Sarah Montgomery, Infyos
- The human rights and ESG risks facing renewable energy projects, supply chains and energy procurement
- Practical approaches to identify, assess and mitigate ESG risks in PPA procurement processes
Roundtable 2: Managing Successful Renewable Procurement with James Hunt, EnBW
A frank discussion on the challenges of procuring renewables in the current market: from getting internal stakeholders on board to managing your tender and process to ensure you secure the projects you want.
- Stakeholder Management: For those who've started exploring a PPA, which stakeholder has been the hardest to align, and what's blocking progress?
- Project Considerations: How do you secure the best projects and navigate the CfD auction timing?
- Tender Process: How quickly do you think a tender process can be ran?
- Negotiations: What are the clauses you'd fight hardest on, and which are you willing to trade away?
- Post-Contract: For those with live PPAs: what has surprised you most post-signature, and what would you set up differently from day one?
Roundtable 3:Making Renewables Pay Through Smarter Procurement and Contract Structures with Robert Brown & Mark Callaway, Data Centre Alliance
- A frank, commercial discussion on what is really driving — or eroding — renewable value today: rising system and network costs, volatile pricing, buyer behaviour, and contract design.
- Practical, frontline insights from across the energy landscape on how leading organisations are mitigating price risk, improving revenue certainty, increasing flexibility, and extracting value from licence exemptions and smarter procurement choices.
Day 2 - Energy Generators/IPPs Stream
Track:
Day 2 - Energy Generators/IPPs Stream
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Unlocking Premium Value: How Co-Located Battery Storage Transforms Renewable PPAs
Co-located Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are transforming renewable PPA economics by converting intermittent generation into firmer, higher-value delivery profiles. By storing excess energy and discharging during peak demand, BESS addresses solar cannibalisation, reduces curtailment, and enables premium pricing. This session explores commercial and contracting strategies from fully bundled hybrid PPAs to partial flexibility arrangements and examines how market characteristics determine the storage premium across different geographies.
- How to leverage co-located BESS to transform intermittent renewable output into firmer, higher-value delivery profiles by shifting energy to peak-demand periods, reducing cannibalisation and curtailment, and capturing premium PPA pricing
- How to structure hybrid renewable-storage contracts including fully bundled PPAs versus partial bundling approaches, and navigate the risk-return trade-offs for developers, offtakers, and financiers
Speakers
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Anastasios Christakis, Chief Operation Officer, Queequeg Renewables
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James Phillips, Vice President, Energy, Brookfield
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Sarah Montgomery, Co-founder & CEO, Infyos
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Mark Augustenborg Ødum, Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer, Better Energy
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Pierre-Louis Raust, Director Development, Power Capital Renewable Energy
Track:
Day 2 - Energy Generators/IPPs Stream
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Interactive Roundtables
Roundtable 1: Data Centres: Data Centres: Onsite & Private Wire PPAs That Deliver with Liam Round, Data Centre Alliance
How data centres can leverage onsite generation and private wire solutions to cut energy costs, secure renewable supply, and achieve 24/7 carbon-free energy.
- How do we build energy infrastructure that is commercially intelligent, operationally resilient, and environmentally sustainable?
- How can data centres leverage onsite generation not just for standby power, but as part of a wider energy strategy?
- How can private wire arrangements unlock direct access to renewable generation and reduce exposure to market volatility?
Roundtable 2:In an era of energy market uncertainty; what is the role for emerging private energy markets? Hosted by Scott Burrows, Eden Sustainable Power Limited
- What are the current key drivers and barriers for organisations buying electricity?
- As a sector what do we mean by private energy markets and what are their key characteristics?
Roundtable 3: SMEs: Making Renewables Work Without Breaking the Bank - Hosted By Ben Martin, British Chambers of Commerce
- How small and medium businesses can access renewable energy, manage cost exposure, and scale sustainability initiatives with minimal complexity.
11:00AM - 11:30AM
Morning Networking Break
11:30AM - 12:00PM
Energy Procurement Reimagined: Investor Insights, PPA Strategy & Service Evolution
This session unpacks the essential elements of successful energy procurement, from crafting robust strategies and structuring PPAs for high-load operations like data centres, to understanding what drives infrastructure investment and how energy services are evolving to meet tomorrow's demands.
- What does good customer service look like in energy today?
- How we frame energy strategy for corporate clients
- An infrastructure investor's perspective on energy investments
- PPAs, data centres, and commercial operations
- How will energy services evolve?
12:00PM - 12:45PM
Energy Security 2.0: Wind, Solar, Storage, and the Path to Reliable Energy
Wind now delivers around 37% of UK electricity, and solar is scaling rapidly, reducing reliance on imports. Yet intermittency, grid congestion, and infrastructure delays remain critical challenges for cost and reliability. This session explores what true energy security looks like today and how the system is evolving to meet demand.
- How wind and solar are reshaping exposure to price volatility and imbalance risk
- Where investment in generation and storage is improving system reliability and where gaps remain
- The impact of grid constraints and workforce shortages on delivery and cost
12:45PM - 1:45PM
Networking Lunch Break
1:45PM - 2:30PM
Unlocking Corporate Offtake
- The UK Government’s role in supporting CPPAs
- How BESS off-take strategies can facilitate deals
- Portfolio Optimisation to help CPPAs stack up with CfDs
Moderator
2:30PM - 3:15PM
Powering AI: How Data Centre Energy Demand Is Reshaping the UK Grid
Ofgem has revealed that 140 data centres are seeking grid connections requiring 50GW of peak capacity—five times higher than government forecasts and far exceeding even the most ambitious demand projections. With 71 "mature" projects (20GW) already prioritized for connections, renewable energy developers face a critical challenge: competing for limited grid capacity against power-hungry data centres that could squeeze out clean energy projects and derail the UK's 2030 clean power targets. This session examines the implications for renewable developers and the urgent need for grid connection reform.
- The 50GW pipeline, priority connection status for data centres, and how this unprecedented demand compares to renewable energy grid connection needs
- How data centre projects are potentially crowding out solar, wind, and storage developments in the connections queue, delaying decarbonisation and threatening the 2030 clean power target
- Navigating Ofgem's proposed reforms including developer-funded connections, application fees to prioritize viable projects, and ensuring renewable energy maintains access to grid infrastructure
3:15PM - 3:15PM
