RENEWABLE ENERGY

THE 2ND
RENEWABLE
ENERGY
SUMMIT 2009
Creating a
broad
vision for
Renewable
Energy in
the new
economy
March 24th &
25th 2009
Croke Park
Convention
Centre Dublin
INTRODUCTION
THE 2020 target for renewable energy
has been increased to 40 per cent as
part of the government’s strategy for a
"green economy". Taoiseach Brian
Cowen said recently that the
government's aim was to deliver a
‘New Green Deal’ that focused on
energy efficiency and the investment
in clean and renewable technologies."
“As one of the most fossil-fuel
dependent countries in the world, we
must prepare for a future when the
prices and volatility we have recently
witnessed become the norm," he said.
Improving the environment and energy
security is one of the five "action
areas" in the plan to rejuvenate the
economy and attain sustainable
growth.
Despite the economic gloom, we
require now – more than ever –
government intervention, legislative
support, and growing investment from
the business sector in order to have
any hope at all of meeting our targets,
reducing our over-dependence on
fossil fuel and availing of the growing
opportunities within the burgeoning
‘clean-tech’ sector.
Although climate change is a threat, it
also provides for much economic
opportunity. Globally, the
environmental goods sector is
growing strongly, with the market
estimated to be heading towards
$700 billion (€512 billion) by the end
of 2009.
A recent Forfás study estimated the
Irish market to be worth €2.8
billion, with an additional £624 million
(€698 million) market in Northern
Ireland. The question facing Ireland
now – our government, business
sector and public – is whether we wait
for the technological innovations that
will come from abroad, or whether we
make those innovations ourselves and
export them.
Despite being late starters, Ireland's
abundance of renewable energy
options give us a distinct edge in profiting
from, rather than being impoverished
by, the challenges of
climate change.
Now in its second year, the National
Renewable Energy Summit will unite
Ireland’s renewable energy
professionals, investors, project
developers and senior executives from
across the renewable energy and
technology sectors. It will provide
attendees with cutting-edge insight, as
well as networking and exchange of
ideas and information opportunities,
affecting the renewable energy
industry today.
Infrastructure
Finance
Policy
Investment
Demand
Who Should Attend
The event that will bring together all stakeholders from the
energy value chain including:
■ Managing Directors/CEOs
■ Energy Specialists
■ Technology Providers
■ Project Financiers / Investors / Venture Capitalists / Analysts
■ Environmental Officers
■ Public Sectors Managers / Technical Officers
■ Environmental Engineers
■ Project Consultants
■ Regulatory Bodies
■ Energy Management Policy Makers
■ Researchers / Scientists
■ Large users of energy
silver sponsors
Some feedback received from our
inaugural conference:
“An invaluable overview of
the renewable energy sector
in Ireland.”
“ Much needed for policy
makers and planners”
” Very helpful update on
national and international
developments”
“Excellent location, easy
access”
“An excellent forum for
relevant and topical issues”
“Excellent combination of
diverse views; very
informative”

SPEAKERS
INCLUDE
Dr Wolfgang Palz, Chairman, World Council For Renewable
Energy (WCRE)
After his studies in Germany, Wolfgang Palz became Professor for
semiconductor physics in Nancy, France. From 1970-76 he was in charge of
power systems development at the French National Space Agency CNES in
Paris. In 1973 he was co-organiser of the UNESCO Congress ‘The Sun in
the Service of Mankind’ in Paris. In 1978, UNESCO published his book
‘Solar Electricity’ in seven languages.
Wolfgang was an official of the EU Commission in Brussels, the executive
body of the European Union in the early 70’s. From 1977-1997 he managed
the development programme of Renewable Energies; it included policy
development and contracting to European industry and academia of the
Commission’s budget (almost $1billion over that period). The R&D
programme comprised the sectors of Solar Architecture, Solar Energy, Wind
Energy, Biomass and Ocean Energy. He edited the results of the EU
programmes in more than 50 books for publisher Reidel/Kluwer and others.
He initiated the European series of conferences on photovoltaics, biomass
and wind power and these have today become the biggest events in Europe
for these sectors. During that time he also initiated the European
Photovoltaic Industry Association EPIA, started a working group with the
architects Lord Norman Foster, Lord Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano and
Thomas Herzog to promote ‘Solar Architecture’, and he started the European
Solar Council (Le Club de Paris).
After 1997 he was an EU Commission Counselor for renewable energy
deployment in Africa. He also advised the EU Commissioner for Energy on
the EU White Paper RE issued that year. From 2000 to 2002 he was a member
of an energy committee of the German Parliament, to establish an energy
strategy for Germany on the time horizon 2050.
Wolfgang Palz is bearer of an Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of
Germany. He has been recognised as a wind energy pioneer in Britain, and
received the European Prizes for biomass, wind energy and photovoltaics
respectively.
Folker Franz, Senior Adviser, Environmental Affairs and Energy
Folker Franz has been with BUSINESSEUROPE - the Confederation of
European Business - since 2002, initially in the economics department and
then the director general’s office.
He is currently responsible for environment affairs and related energy issues,
in particular climate change mitigation and renewable energy. He
represented the views of industry in the political discussions leading up to
the adoption of the landmark EU Climate and Energy Package in December
2008, including the Renewable Energy Directive and the Directive reviewing
the EU Emission Trading Scheme. He is the author of BUSINESSEUROPE
publications ‘Energy Efficiency – Reconciling Growth and Climate Protection’
(2007) and ‘Combating Climate Change – Four Key Principles for a
Successful International Agreement’ (2008).
Folker is a trained economist and holds a Master in International Economics
from the Université Paris-Dauphine. Prior to BUSINESSEUROPE, he worked
as a business consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Berlin. A German
national, he now enjoys living in Brussels despite the low quantities of solar
energy the Belgian weather usually has to offer.
Katrina Polaski, Head of Renewable Energy, Sustainable Energy
Ireland
Katrina Polaski joined Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI) in 2002, and has
served as Head of Renewable Energy since 2005. Prior to that, she was an
Energy Economist, and Senior Policy Analyst. Katrina has represented SEI on
a number of international and interdepartmental policy and advisory groups in
the areas of renewable energy, ocean energy and climate change.

Gerry Wardell, Director, Codema
Gerry Wardell is the Director of Codema, Dublin’s leading
agency for energy and sustainability, which acts as
sustainable energy adviser for Dublin City Council and the
three neighbouring County Councils. The agency has worked
in association with the Council’s SPC in preparing their
climate change strategy. It’s currently developing an action
plan on energy for the Dublin region.
Gerry’s interest in the global challenge of climate change
dates from his time spent as chair of a global thinking
reflection group in Brussels which was set up by the
European Commission, for local actions on energy. More
recently, he chaired the group at the Institute of International
and European Affairs that developed scenarios for the social
and economic consequences of climate change, published in
the report ‘Ireland’s Climate Change Challenge’.
Lawrence D Staudt
Lawrence has been involved with renewable energy since
1978, when he was engineer and then engineering manager
of Enertech, a wind turbine company involved with California
wind farms. He had a renewable energy consulting partnership
with Airtricity’s former Chief Scientist Brian Hurley in the
1980s. During the 1990s he worked with ESB on power
station engineering projects nationally and internationally, and
as a shift engineer in the National Control Centre. During this
time he was a vice president of the European Wind Energy
Association. He was chairman of the Irish Renewable Energy
Council (IREC). He currently runs the Centre for Renewable
Energy in Dundalk IT (www.credit.ie), is a council member of
the Irish Wind Energy Association, a chartered engineer, and a
member of the Engineers Ireland Energy and Environment
Committee. He has written chapters in wind energy for two
engineering text books. He also lectures Wind Energy 1, Wind
Energy 2 and Grid Integration of Renewables as part of the
MSc in Renewable Energy Systems programme.
Dr Richard Toll, Economic & Social Research
Institute
Dr Richard Toll is a Senior Research Officer at the Economics
and Social Research Institute, Dublin; the Michael Otto
Professor of Sustainability and Global Change at the Centre
for Marine and Climate Research, Hamburg University; a
Principal Researcher at the Institute for Environmental
Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam; and an Adjunct
Professor at the Department of Engineering and Public Policy,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. The second most
prolific Dutch economist, he has 98 publications in learned
journals and many other ones. An economist and statistician,
he is interested in climate change, natural disasters, marine
resources, tourism, land use, and water management. He is
an editor of Energy Economics. He has played an active role
in international bodies such as the Stanford Energy Modeling
Forum, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and
the European Forum on Integrated Environmental
Assessment.
Brian Britton, Managing Director,
Oriel Windfarm Limited
As Managing Director of Oriel Windfarm, Brian Britton has
been at the forefront in developing the offshore wind energy
sector in Ireland. Completion of the Oriel Windfarm will see
330 MW of renewable energy delivered into the Irish Grid.
Brian has managed this €900 million project from
its inception, including raising investment capital and
managing the regulatory approval process. He is a founder
and Secretary of the National Offshore Wind Energy
Association of Ireland (NOW Ireland). Brian is Managing
Director of Britton Consultants, the Dundalk-based private
equity consultancy. Brian is a fellow of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants and a former Finance Director of
Goodman International.
PROGRAMME
AGENDA
DAY 1
8:00 Coffee & registration
Chairperson’s opening remarks
Áine Lawlor, RTE Presenter, Morning Ireland
8:50 OPENING MINISTERIAL ADDRESS:
The Government’s Policy on Renewables
Eamon Ryan, Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural
Resources
ACCELERATING CHANGE
9:10 INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Current Status and Future Prospects of World’s
Renewable Energy
Modern energies derived from the wind, the sun, hydro,
and bio-materials have recently become quite successful
on the global markets:
leader in solar electricity with photovoltaics and wind
energy: The share of renewable electricity reached last
15 per cent from 4 per cent 15 years ago; About
250,000 jobs have been created; Solar companies had
the strongest growth rate of all German industry
● Spain and the USA are other leaders in the renewable
energy field; US President Barack Obama declared that
he intends to double the renewable energy supply in the
US over the next three years
Renewable energies are expected to dominate the
energy market in many countries in the future as they
are the cleanest, the only inexhaustible, and the only
energy sources that are globally available everywhere.
● The EU has just adopted the Directive to increase the
RE share from 9 per cent today to 20 per cent by the
year 2020
● Experts believe that RE have the potential to supply
the world’s energy needs by 2050.
Wolfgang Palz, Chairman, World Council Renewable Energy, WCRE
● Thanks to political incentives, Germany has become a

9:45 The Price of Carbon
Professor Richard Toll, Research Professor, Economic and Social
Research Institute
10:10 Ireland’s Climate Change Challenge
Dr Peter Brennan, Managing Director, EPS Consulting and Chairman
of the Institute of International and European Affairs working group
on climate change
10.35 Morning break and exhibition viewing
11:00 PANEL DISCUSSION: Have we the will to
change?
● Is there a political commitment to deliver Ireland’s
energy and climate change agendas?
● How does energy policy translate into financial terms
for investors and developers?
● Delivering energy efficiency programmes
Panellists will includes leading industry experts such as:
Sean Barrett, TD, Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on
Climate Change and Energy Security
Grattan Healy, Energy Adviser
Katrina Polaski, Head of Renewables, Sustainable Energy Ireland
Dr Eimear Cotter, Office of Climate Change, Licensing and
Resource Use, EPA
11:40 Legal challenges in windfarm development
● Grid Connections
● Planning
● Turbine Supply
● Regulatory support and off-take arrangements
● Funding challenges in the current market
Ross Moore, Partner, A&L Goodbody
12:10 How the Regulator is Responding on
Renewables
● Connecting renewable: Gate 3
● How will the SEM work with 40 per cent renewable?
● Operational issues for wind in the SEM
Michael Tutty, Chairman, Commission on Energy Regulation
12:35 Lunch & Exhibition Viewing
1:55 Welcome back from the afternoon chair
Áine Lawlor, Presenter, Morning Ireland
CORPORATE COMMITMENT AND FINANCE
2:00 Managing the transition to a low carbon
economy
● Managing carbon – the new currency
● Understanding the risks and rewards
● Drivers, Innovation & Business Opportunities
Donal Buckley, Head of Business Infrastructure, IBEC
2:30 A Financier's Perspective on Renewable
Energy Projects
● Key project attributes from a funder perspective
● Energy policy and how it translates to project
bankability
● Latest developments in debt financing and banking
markets
Donal Murphy, Director, Bank of Ireland Global Markets
2:55 Smart Cities
● What are Smart Cities?
– How do we see emerging Smart Technologies,
Distributed Renewables & Low Carbon
● Transportation changing the urban environment?
● Using a Public Sector Value proposition to define
the ‘business case’
● Who is leading the way in moving towards the Smart
City concept?
– How do we see this concept developing and what
does it mean for stakeholders?
Simon Giles, Accenture Global Lead for Smart Cities
3:15 Afternoon Break
INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE
3:30 How to develop a renewable business
Ireland is facing severe economic and environmental
challenges now and in the future;
● There are opportunities to overcome these
challenges through innovation and transformation to a
sustainable society
● The government vision ‘Building the Smart Economy’
provides a basis for investment in a sustainable
economy
This presentation will discuss the policies needed to
achieve this goal
Dr Lisa Ryan, Comhar - Sustainable Development Council
Evolving technologies and applications
● Early domestic installations – proving the technology
in Ireland
● Evolving technologies and applications
● Cases of commercial and industrial applications:
– Enniscorthy nursing home and retirement village
– Healthy and affordable living: heat pumps and heat
recovery ventilation
– Tralee Institute of Technology 44 solar collectors
reduce CO2 emissions by over 10,000Kg
– Lixnaw church – Renewable heating system in 1864
church
– Galway – Mayo Institute of Technology Project
– Renewable energy solutions for sustainable
aquaculture
Bryan Buckley, Engineer, Energy Master
4:15 PANEL DISCUSSION:
The Acceleration of Bioenergy in Ireland
● Emerging Biomass Opportunities
● Developing bio energy sustainably – raises many
issues because of the new EU Directive on
sustainability
● Bioenergy is more than energy – multiple benefits
and the need to get value for all
● Cross sector policy – the need for joined up thinking
Panellists will includes leading industry experts such as:
Bernard Rice, Principal Research Officer, Teagasc
Clifford Guest, Programme Specialists, Tipperary Institute
Vicky Heslop, President, Irish Bioenergy Association
5:00 Day 1 close
DAY 2
8:45 Welcome from Morning Chair
8.50 INTERNATIONAL OPENING ADDRESS
Renewables: The key issues at EU Level
● Opportunites and costs
● Implementing the EU’s 20 per cent renewables target
● The future of energy prices in Europe
Folker Franz, Senior Adviser, Environmental Affairs and Energy

9:20 Ireland’s Grid Development Strategy
● Infrastructure, planning; transmission and grid
connectivity
● Government support for renewables deployment and
grid access
● Overcoming the technical and legal challenges
● Integrating renewable and conventional energy for
both base and peak load requirements
● Smart grids and decentralised generation – how will
renewable fit into the electricity network of the future
Dermot Byrne, CEO, Eirgrid
9:45 Global Challenges – Local Solutions
● Local authorities playing their part in climate change
● Climate change strategy for Dublin city
● Examples of local authority renewable energy
projects
● Action programme for energy and climate
Gerry Wardell, CODEMA, Dublin City Council
10:15 Q&A
Morning break
INNOVATION AND BEST PRACTICE
10:50 The impact of technological levers on
creating sustainability
Siemens’ environmental portfolio embraces the
generation, transmission, distribution and use of energy
– whether it be for buildings, lighting or in industry – as
well as other environmental technologies. In fiscal
2008, products and solutions from the company’s
portfolio reduced customers’ CO2 emissions by 34
million tons.
Dr Werner Kruckow, CEO Siemens considers the role
of innovation and presents a number of technological
levers that can have a significant impact on creating a
sustainable urban environment.
He argues that climate challenges need joined-up
thinking and that political and industry measures must
go hand in hand to provide a ‘triple-win’ opportunity for
customers, society and industry
Dr. Werner Kruckow, CEO, Siemens
11:15 The challenges of the renewability agenda
John Campion, Director of Sustainability, ESB
11:45 Microgeneration: It’s potential for Ireland
● What is it?
● Developments elsewhere in Europe
● It’s potential for Ireland
● CO2 reduction
● Job Creation
● Correct buy-back tariff for Ireland
● The way forward
Professor GT Wrixon, Consulting Engineer
1:55 Welcome back from Afternoon Chair
Peter Brennan, Managing Director, EPS Consulting
INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE
2:00 The Nuclear Option
The nuclear alternative – key to meeting CO2 targets
Jim Morrisey, BENE (Better Environment with Nuclear Energy)
2:45 Wood fuel – a key renewable energy
feedstock
● Types and sources of wood fuels available on the
market
● Projections of future wood energy supply
● Making it happen: growing the wood energy market
● Links between national forest policy, greenhouse gas
reduction targets and renewable energy policy
Dr Eugene Hendrick, Director of COFORD, the National Council for
Forest Research and Development
3:15 Afternoon Tea & Coffee
3:30 The Acceleration of Wind Energy:
The New Horizon
● Current situation
● Development pipeline
● Delivering the pipeline:
● Expiring planning permissions
● Grid
● Finance – Support systems, global outlook, Irish
market variance
Caitríona Diviney, Chief Operating Officer, Irish Wind Energy
Association
3:55 Offshore Wind Energy – Bringing Capacity
to the Renewable Sector
Brian Britton, CEO, Oriel Windfarm Limited and Secretary of the
National Offshore Wind Association
THE FUTURE
4:15 PANEL DISCUSSION: Ireland’s Energy Future
● The future direction for renewable energy and
markets in Ireland
● Features of a sustainable energy economy
Panellists will include leading industry figures including:
Dr Larry Staudt, Director, Centre for Renewable Energy, Dundalk DIT;
Graham Brennan, Programme Manager, Renewable Energy Research
& Development Programme, Sustainable Energy Ireland
4:45 CLOSE
12:15 Solar Potential
● Introduction into Solar Energy (History, trends,
disruptive energy, smart grids)
● Motivation for solar energy
● Elimination of feed tariffs
● The SolarPrint vision
● From lab to market
Dr Mazhar Bari, CEO, Solarprint
12:45 Lunch & Exhibition Viewing

Founded in 1927, ESB is Ireland’s leading electricity
company. It is a vertically integrated utility that generates,
distributes and supplies electricity in a regulated
energy market.
ESB Group employs approximately 6,500 people and
sub-company, ESB International, employs 1,200 on its
overseas business that has spanned more than 100
countries.
One of Ireland’s most successful companies with an
annual turnover of €3.5 billion, ESB has grown in value
from €2.5 billion in 2002 to about €6.5 billion today.
It has, in the past five years, driven a €6 billion
investment programme to successfully refurbish the
State’s electricity infrastructure and provide a robust
world-class service for the economy.
In agreement with the Commission for Energy
Regulation, ESB has reduced its domestic market share
in power generation to 40 per cent while expanding its
operations abroad.
Of the many challenges facing the energy industry,
climate change ranks as a priority. Achieving targets
relating to emissions, renewables and energy efficiency
are primary goals.
ESB is currently implementing a major capital
investment programme of €22 billion to make the
company carbon-neutral by 2035. A total of €11 billion
is being directed at promoting renewable energy
generation.
As part of this major renewable strategy, ESB is
working on securing 600 megawatt of wind generation
in Ireland by 2012.
Since its foundation, ESB has been deeply embedded
in Irish society and with the community it serves.
Looking ahead, the company is committed to
progressing its sustainability objective while playing its
part in ensuring security of supply.
Siemens is a global powerhouse in electronics and
electrical engineering, operating in the industry, energy
and healthcare sectors.
Our innovations answer the world’s toughest questions:
from how to deliver efficient energy supply without
negatively impacting the environment, to providing
industry with solutions that increase productivity and
competitiveness, to enabling early detection and
effective treatment of disease.
For the energy sector, we offer products and solutions
for the generation, transmission and distribution of
electrical energy. In Healthcare, Siemens offers in-vivo
(imaging systems) and in-vitro (laboratory diagnostics),
therapy and healthcare information technology
solutions, supplemented by consulting and support
services. Our industry sector provides products and
solutions in the fields of production, transportation and
building systems.
Active in Ireland for over 80 years, Siemens has been
involved in many key infrastructure projects. These
have included the construction of many of Ireland’s
power plants, large scale transportation solutions and
the introduction of the most up to date medical imaging
systems to Ireland’s hospitals. The company employs
more than 1000 highly-skilled people in Ireland.
The Ireland of tomorrow will be shaped by the
megatrends of urbanisation, demographic change and
climate change. Siemens – with its cross-sector
portfolio, technological leadership and strong local
presence – is better positioned than any other company
to provide future-proof solutions that generate
competitive advantages and lay the basis for
sustainable growth for tomorrow’s Ireland.
For more information on Siemens please visit:
www.siemens.ie
Accenture is a global management consulting,
technology services and outsourcing company.
Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture
collaborates with its clients to help them become
high-performance businesses and governments. With
deep industry and business process expertise, broad
global resources and a proven track record, Accenture
can mobilise the right people, skills, and technologies to
help clients improve their performance. In today’s
unpredictable environment, utilities confront changing
regulations, ageing infrastructure assets, skills
shortages, fuel-price volatility and the growing
consideration of environmental directions. However,
utilities looking to build for the future can also look to a
fresh set of business solutions, enabled by digital
technologies, sensing devices and software capabilities.
Accenture can apply their industry expertise, business
process knowledge and systems integration skills to
help their utility clients achieve high performance. With
more than 186,000 people serving clients in more
than120 countries, the company generated net
revenues of US$23.39 billion for the fiscal year ended
Aug 31, 2008.
The home page is www.accenture.com.
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