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.
