Programme - “Trendwatching Solar Energy”

Registration and coffee

Opening Conference by Chairman

The government as a catalyst for market growth?

• What are the concrete targets of the government for solar energy? How will these goals be reached? What does the future for the FiT and ROC schemes look like? Which expectations are there with regards to the European anti-dumping measures?

Gregory Barker - Minister, Department of Energy & Climate Change

Solar Energy can be half as cheap

• Citigroup predicts that the cost price of solar panels will be $0,25/Wp by 2020. Where in the value chain can the costs be pushed down further? What are the cost trends in the international PV industry? What does this mean for the British PV market? How will the price of solar energy develop in the next 3 years?

Henning Wicht - Senior Director & Principal Analyst, iSuppli

The fifth largest market in the world; what’s next?

• Overview of statistics, solar initiatives and trends in the British PV market.
  
  
  Reza Shaybani - Chairman, BPVA

Coffee break

• Meet the exhibiting sponsors and share your strategic insights with the other participating market leaders and the speakers.

Will PV grow as fast as the internet?

• The driver for consumers and the residential segment

Harvesting solar energy: Why solar is more interesting for farmers than agricultural business

• What does the business case for a farmer look like and what is the market potential?


Jonathan Scurlock - Chief Adviser, Renewable Energy and Climate Change, National Farmers' Union of England and Wales

Turning green fields blue: Why do power plants make sense in the UK

• What does the business model for large scale ground based PV power plants look like under the new ROC scheme in 2014?


Anton Milner - Managing Director, IB Vogt

Networking lunch

• The optimal networking platform for all participants. The buffet lunch is the ideal moment to meet the sponsors, share your knowledge and meet your future business partners.

Why big corporates do solar

• What is driving the corporates? What does the business case look like for a commercial PV roof project?


Nick Boyle - CEO, Lightsource Renewable Energy

The end of the current business model of energy utilities

• - How can utilities market solar-based power offers to end-customers?
  - How could the utility charge the use of solar energy and grid connection?
  - What can be learned from transitions in the telecom industry?
  - How will this impact solar energy application?
  - Smart ideas for an energy utility business model based on large scale solar
  
  Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser - Independent utility strategy expert

Why big money is going solar

• The vision on solar financing


Thierry Lepercq - Chairman, Solairedirect

Tea break

The rooftop revolution; solar as economic opportunity, bigger than Google

• Danny Kennedy is the founder of America’s fastest growing PV leasing company: Sungevity and one of the few real solar guru’s. Danny recently published his book: “The Rooftop Revolution”. He sees solar energy as THE economic opportunity of this century. “Bigger than Google.” What’s his vision on international market developments?

Danny Kennedy - President, Sungevity

They will be knocking on your doors

• The triple crunch theory and why customers will line up for solar.


Jeremy Leggett - Chairman, Solarcentury

The Impact Economy; solar 2.0

• ‘Solar energy is a bubble... and I love bubbles!`


Jigar Shah - CEO, Jigar Shah Consulting

Final closing words and start of informal networking drinks

• Meet the exhibiting sponsors and share your strategic insights with the other participating market leaders and the speakers.