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3-5 October 2017 THE NEC, BIRMINGHAM, UK TODAY uk.solarenergyevents.com UK solar rebounds as gigawatts Solar & Storage Live of subsidy- free planning comes to Birmingham applications fly in Credit: WELink Credit:

he UK stands to remain as Tone of Europe’s leading PV markets despite the retraction of subsidies as its pipeline of solar sites currently in planning has swollen to more than 3GW. And while some of that figure includes sites to have missed out on various FiT and ROC deadlines, nearly half (1.3GW) has entered planning in 2016 and 2017, indicating confidence from developers in building these sites out without subsidy support. Writing for Solar Power Portal Finlay Colville, head of market research at Solar Media, revealed olar & Storage Live – which evolved alongside the UK’s show to tackle key and pressing Robert Llewellyn, who said he that the bulk of the applications Spromises to be the UK’s domestic solar industry. That themes. could not wait to recognise so- are in the 25-50MW capacity largest solar and storage exhi- evolution has continued with Current exhibitors include lar’s growing role in the energy range, with most sites being bition – comes to Birmingham’s new content, new exhibitors and industry stalwarts such as JA mix. lined up for the 2019/20 build NEC in early October. added extras, with a few old Solar, Sungrow, SolarEdge and “I’m very pleased to be back cycle. Borne out of the successful favourites returning once again. Samsung SDI. doing it again, it’s a great gig. Solar Energy UK, Solar Media’s More than 1,400 visitors have The Solar Power Portal It is so encouraging to see the (continued on page six…) flagship exhibition returns once already pre-registered for the Awards returns once again on level of interest in solar from the again to Birmingham between exhibition; with total visitors the evening of Wednesday 4 public,” Llewellyn said. 3 and 5 October 2017. However expect to surpass 3,000 over the October 2017. More than 600 More on Solar & Storage Live with storage now coming to the three days. They will be joined industry professionals are ex- 2017, the conference agenda fore, it felt only right to give the by more than 60 exhibitors who pected to attend the glittering and the Solar Power Portal technology equal billing. will pack the show floor, and ceremony – now in its fifth year Awards 2017 can be found Solar Media’s Birmingham a vast array of delegates for a – with 13 gongs up for grabs. throughout this, the preview show now extends to eight brand new, three-day confer- The black tie gala dinner will be edition of Solar & Storage years, having grown and ence aligned with the trade hosted by television personality Today.

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Wenger clinches Solar & Storage Live returns electric new signing

rsenal’s Emirates Stadium Ais to be powered at least in part by solar after the club extended its association with Octopus Energy. The deal follows a year-long trial with renewables at the north London stadium. Speaking after the announce- ment, Arsenal CEO Ivan Gazidis said it was important for the club to take “all steps in this area”.

Home batteries bolstered by tax break

esidential battery storage Rhas won a partial victory after the government agreed to a tax break for battery systems, but only if they are supplied and olar Media is returning to really exciting for the future,” Even household names like submitted since the start of installed alongside solar panels. SBirmingham’s NEC for the said David Owen, chief execu- E.On, EDF and IKEA have all 2016, all of which are intended The Solar Trade Association eighth year running, this time tive at Solar Media. entered the residential market to be energised in the coming announced in August that it has introducing Solar & Storage Storage technologies be- in the last, indicating significant years. secured a 5% rate of VAT on Live as its flagship event. came a more prominent feature confidence in the technology. Meanwhile, the industry is battery storage instead of the Previously known as Solar at 2016’s show, which was the This is not to say however awaiting several key pieces of standard 20% currently applied. Energy UK, the rebranding is largest gathering of battery that solar PV is to be neglected legislation that could embrace However, in order for HMRC designed to reflect a new focus storage exhibitors in the UK. at this year’s exhibition. Having more renewables in the system. to allow the lower rate to apply for this year and the years More than 40 storage-relat- endured a difficult 2016 in the The government’s eagerly the battery has to be sold and ahead. Solar, now an estab- ed companies demonstrated immediate aftermath of subsidy awaited Clean Growth Plan installed alongside solar, which lished technology, will share their products and courted the cuts, the industry has begun to will detail how the country is already benefits from the lower the stage with battery storage industry’s interest last October show the kind of resilience it to meet its fifth carbon budget rate. after what has been a trans- as storage looked to break into was previously famed for and obligations, and BEIS and “This is a helpful and welcome formational 18 months for the the power sector in a big way. identified new routes to market. Ofgem in August established decision by the Treasury follow- nascent technology. One year on, and storage has The first subsidy-free, plans to instigate a more de- ing a major lobbying effort from “We’re really seeing very made significant strides. The utility-scale developments are centralised approach to energy. the Solar Trade Association,” strong development in this area pipeline for utility-scale storage beginning to come to fruition, The government is too commit- said STA vice chair Seb Berry. which is why we have refocused facilities has swelled beyond with the first sites expected ted to reviewing the small-scale our biggest event of the year. 3GW, numerous compelling to complete before the end feed-in tariff before the end of We see solar and storage business models for C&I appli- of the year. Solar Media’s in- the year, which could yet see Public support for becoming a key element in cations have emerged and the house market research division the rates amended to use up the market along with other residential market has been has also identified more than the growing underspend within fracking hits record ancillary technologies and that’s inundated with new entrants. 1.3GW of planning applications the scheme. low

ublic support for shale gas Pextraction hit a record low this summer, according to offi- cial figures. Just 16% said of those sur- PLACE YOUR AD HERE! veyed by BEIS said they support- ed the extraction of shale gas, We’ll be running three editions of Solar & Storage Today throughout the exhibition, providing all 1,400+ compared to figures upwards of attendees with a daily round up of news, views and opinion from the show floor. 73% for solar PV. We have a limited number of advertising opportunities available, so if you are interested in reaching an The survey also uncovered unrivalled audience of attendees please contact Will Swan via [email protected] growing ease within the British public over both energy security Solar & Storage TODAY and energy bills, with fear of black outs falling to just 37%.

uk.solarenergyevents.com | 3-5 October 2017 | 3 How to exhibit Looking for sales leads for new solar & storage sites in the UK?

The UK Large-Scale Solar Farms: The Post-Subsidy Prospect List identifies the status of all sites making up the Gigawatt level of new utility-based solar farms

The UK Battery Storage Project Database report is a comprehensive listing of 200 plus utility scale battery storage projects in the UK

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The UK Large-Scale Solar Farms: The Post-Subsidy Prospect List identifies the status of all sites making up the Gigawatt level of new utility-based solar farms

The UK Battery Storage Project Database report is a comprehensive listing of 200 plus utility scale battery storage projects in the UK

The event was very successful. I met a lot This was a great opportunity THERE’S STILL of interesting PV and storage professionals to network with a large TIME TO EXHIBIT! and gained the latest market insights and number of companies and If you want to join more than 60 of your developments. I enjoyed it very much and gather different perspectives peers already exhibiting at Solar & Storage Live, had good fun too, which is also important. on the development of it is not too late. The exhibition, the conferences and the technologies and the market. There is still a limited amount of space on the show floor available to purchase with a number of stand Alex Daynes, sales manager, Enercon GmbH-UK awards event were very well organised. options available. Pol Spronck, international sales manager, Solarwatt We already have more than 1,400 pre-registered visitors with many, many more expected to sign- up in the coming weeks. If you’re interested in meeting them, then contact either This event is a great way to The show is a leading industry event which Tom Moon ([email protected]) or Meena Manthena (mmanthena@ meet suppliers and see new brings together private, public and third solarmedia.co.uk) to discuss developments in a fast moving sector organisations. The exhibition is first your options. industry where change is the class and relevant and the seminar sessions are future. excellent and represent good value and good use of time. Solar Media Market Research, provides the industry with accurate and timely data to ensure George Browning, partner, GNF & GA Browning ! Mark Bramah, managing consultant, Municipia maximum focus on current and pending opportunities at the site-specific level.

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Solarwatt welcomes new UK subsidy-free pipeline tops 3GW as installer partners as storage appetite 100MW site nears planning ramps up olarwatt has appointed 12 Snew UK installer partners to serve demand for its MyRe- serve battery storage systems as its partnership with Fronius continues to reap benefits. The energy storage system and PV module manufacturer, which announced its expansion into the UK last year, formed a partnership with the inverter specialist in July. Solarwatt has now made use of the Fronius technology centre in Milton Keynes to provide training to fifteen technicians from the 12 firms, who include: Bobbie Wright, Solarwatt sales manager, said: “As well as providing superior-quality inverters, our partnership with Fronius has raised our profile among installers and enabled us to provide further high-quality technical training. We expect more installers to join WELink Credit: us soon.” (…Continued from front page) 25% of these are being planned 560MW worth of new solar farms) “What a start to subsidy-free to include energy storage units, are being planned to include deployment this would repre- Currently, the post-subsidy pipe- indicating growing confidence in energy storage units. sent for the UK solar industry,” Solar and storage line of large-scale solar farms the technology as it matures. Colville also revealed that Colville wrote. in the UK exceeds 3GW, across The most interesting segment Solar Media’s in-house market The current largest solar farm could save homes more than 300 sites. of the pie-chart above however research team had started to in the UK is the 72MW Shotwick £600 each year, The most interesting segment relates to the post-subsidy part. track a 100MW solar farm, which Solar Farm developed by WELink new report finds of this portfolio, Colville argues, These are new sites that have would be the UK’s first of such and BSR and now owned by is sites that have emerged in emerged in 2016 and so far in size, which he expects to stand a Foresight Solar Fund. It trumped nstalling solar and storage 2016 and so far this year. Approx- 2017. Approximately 95 sites fall good chance of being approved the 69MW effort developed at Itechnologies into homes imately 95 sites fall into this cat- into this category, adding up to in the coming months. This DTTC Lyneham, built by the could save them as much as egory, adding up to more than more than 1.3GW. Incredibly, would raise the prospects for Ministry of Defence (pictured £600 each year on their fuel 1.3GW in capacity. More than more than 25% of these (on it to start construction in 2018. above). bills, a new study has found. The report, released by Swansea University’s Specific Innovation and Knowledge Centre, claims that an integrat- ed system comprising solar PV Scotland’s ‘largest’ solar farm approved roof installations, battery storage and solar heat collection technology on south-facing with more to follow from Elgin walls could cut energy consumption by more than 60%. lans for the largest solar Scotland. and model of the solar panels from the Energy Consents Unit, The report goes on to claim Pfarm in Scotland have Councillors approved the to be used, as well as a draft de- a Scottish government body that if 1 million homes were been approved, allowing Elgin development of the 47-hectare commissioning and restoration which considers electricity built in the UK to the same Energy to construct what is site, which could see around plan for the end of the scheme. generating stations over 50MW, standard, peak generating expected to be a subsidy-free 80,000 solar panels installed. Despite offering the largest by Q1 2018 on the larger site capacity required would be 20MW development on the The land will continue to be confirmed solar site in Scotland, but was unable to confirm when reduced by as much as 3GW. north coast. used for grazing over the 30 it is likely this will not remain the the site would be completed if Andris Bankovskis, the au- Moray Council confirmed year lifetime of the scheme, with case for long as Elgin recently successful. thor of the report and member if had granted permission for a condition of planning permis- submitted plans for another A spokesperson added that of an independent advisory the solar farm at Speyslaw near sion requiring regular updates subsidy free site near Speyslaw large sites such as Speyslaw group formed to assist the Urquhart which, when construct- on the energy generated at the at Milltown Airfield, which would and Milltown Airfield will likely project, said that the scale ed, would replace the 14MW site. boast more than 50MW of become the norm as the UK of the potential impacts was solar farm in Errol, also built by Before works begin, the coun- capacity. moves towards an unsubsidised “compelling”. Elgin Energy, as the largest in cil will also approve the make Elgin expects a decision market.

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Irish rooftop solar London moves to boost solar market buoyed by subsidy-free deployment with new auctions, tenders prospects

ooftop solar installations and community grants Rare going ahead in the Republic of Ireland without reverse solar auction is to subsidy, according to Swiss Abe run for London home- roof mountings manufacturer owners under plans outlined by Schweizer, which has suggest- the mayor, which place com- ed a rooftop tariff may not be munity energy schemes at the needed. centre of City Hall’s plans while A review carried out by shutting the door once and for Schweizer and solar equipment all on a rumoured London feed- supplier BHC Distributors in tariff. found owners and occupiers in The delayed solar strategy, several locations are turning to which had been expected in the solar to lower their electricity spring, has been published as bills, which in some cases can part of Sadiq Khan’s environment warrant unsubsidised projects plan for London and will see a going forward. pilot in which City Hall will ap- Martyn Johnson, Schweizer’s proach a number of households sales manager for the UK and to gauge their interest in adding Ireland, told sister publication solar to their roofs. Solar Power Portal: “It is a very This demand will be pooled tough market but the returns together into a package of works aren’t that bad. If it’s [for] which will then be tendered to self-consumption and makes solar installers who will bid for Solarcentury Credit: a proper return, some people the work in a competition to solar in London by 2030, which £300,000 in grants funding, and suppliers on the RE:FIT frame- will go ahead and be happy to offer the best price to Londoners would double the current level of deployment of the technology work for installations on 24 of its install.” in the pilot. If successful, it will PV in the capital. within the Greater London Au- buildings including train crew be rolled out across the city. This will be pursued through thority (GLA) group. accommodation, bus stations, More widely, City Hall has set a mixture of community energy Transport for London (TfL) has train depots, manufacturing a target of deploying 100MW of schemes, which are to receive already launched a tender to workshops and river piers. Sheffield Solar launches new PV forecasting tool Scottish businesses could earn year- long business rate reprieve

he Scottish government has diate increase in rateable values in Scotland could also be buoyed category which rooftop solar falls Tbeen recommended to allow enforced when any investments by proposed reforms to the under. he Sheffield Solar research companies who invest in solar a are made to improve properties periods between rate revaluations, That review, which is to take a Tgroup has launched a new year-long grace period before or plant and machinery had acted meaning that the rate would be particular focus on renewables, tool capable of forecasting higher business rates come into as a “disincentive and barrier to revalued every three years, and must be started imminently to output from PV systems up to effect. investment”. a separate review to regulations feed into the next rate review pen- 72 hours in advance. The proposal has been made And commercial rooftop solar affecting plant and machinery, the cilled in for 2022, the report said. Developed for grid oper- as part of the Barclay Review, led ators, generators and power by former RBS Scotland chairman traders, the tool – dubbed PV Ken Barclay, which was established Forecast – combines weather last year to report on non-domes- forecasts with live data from tic business rates in the country, generating systems to pro- specifically on potential areas of vide educated short-term and unfairness. longer-term forecasts. The Barclay Review group It is currently being trialled published its findings and a series online and Sheffield Solar said of proposals, among which is a 12 it had plans to further devel- month-long ‘delay period’ before op it beyond the half-hourly new rates come into force in order forecasts current accessible. to stimulate economic growth. Regional forecasts are to follow, The report cites evidence from with national forecasts being a “large number of ratepayers” made available for individu- from both public and private sec- al systems up and down the

tors who claimed that the imme- Lightsource Credit: country.

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BEIS and Ofgem unveil terms of major modernisation of UK energy E.On to utilise solar-plus- storage sales with new system power trading division

he Department for Busi- The report focuses predom- ig Six utility E.On is aiming Tness, Energy and Industrial inantly on three key areas, Bto leverage sales of its so- Strategy and the energy regula- including the removal of barriers lar-plus-storage offering with the tor Ofgem have today released to storage; enabling smart mar- launch of a new power trading plans for a major upgrade of kets and businesses; and mak- division in the UK. the UK’s energy system. ing markets work for flexibility. Speaking of the launch Sven Within the document, pub- Meanwhile, the document Otten, senior VP for energy man- lished this morning alongside a also signals a future vision agement at E.On SE, said that the major investment programme for the introduction of smart company would be aiming to take for battery storage and electric and flexible networks behind full advantage of the “flexibilities” of- vehicles, the duo have outlined the meter where it will look to fered by their customers’ decentral- how it intends to stimulate a bolster the ability of homes and ised generation and storage assets. Credit: Getty Images Credit: drastic modernisation of the businesses to aid the network. Having previously launched it in its UK’s energy market, both on Having already mandated for by 2020 and the introduction potential new standards for native German market, E.On intro- networks and in homes and the installation of smart meters of half-hourly settlement, BEIS EV charging points and smart duced its solar-plus-storage offering businesses. in every home and business and Ofgem will move to assess appliances. to the UK market earlier this year with much fanfare. It has been advertised on Sky television and a partnership with pop group Gorillaz was formed Foresight enters battery storage fray with 35MW project purchase for a wide-ranging promotional drive.

oresight Group has sealed battery storage installations Market auction – will become battery storage feasible from First community benefit Fits maiden battery storage to receive a National Grid the latest addition to Fore- an investment perspective, and funds from 50MW purchase, acquiring the 35MW Enhanced Frequency Response sight’s renewables infrastructure today spoke of the technology’s Swindon Solar Farm to RES-built Port of Tyne project. contract while also being portfolio which already cross contribution to the wider energy The project – one of eight successful in this year’s Capacity the solar and energy from waste transition. be paid sectors. “The acquisition consolidates he very first grants from a Construction of the project Foresight's position as a leader T50MW solar farm in Swindon are is expected to come on stream in investing both in renewable to be allocated over the next three early next year. energy generation and the flex- months. Foresight revealed it was ible grid infrastructure required Wiltshire Community Foundation edging closer to its first battery to accommodate increasing is making a total of £55,000 available, storage play earlier this year penetration of renewables, such separated into both small and large and Dan Wells, partner within as energy storage. grants, for projects which will benefit Foresight’s infrastructure team, “We are delighted to have the local community. heralded the technology’s worked alongside RES to reach Rosemary Macdonald, chief exec- potential to offer up interesting financial close on this pioneer- utive at Wiltshire Community Foun- investment opportunities. ing project which sets an excit- dation, said the group was delighted At that time he spoke of the ing precedent for the integra- that the array was now able to start need for a diverse mix of reve- tion of battery storage into the contributing to the community.

Credit: RES Credit: nue streams to make utility-scale UK energy system,” Wells said. UK’s ‘largest battery’ commissioned by Hazel Capital

Surging solar sends summer power demand to eight-year low hat is claimed to be the UK’s Wlargest stand-alone battery oaring generation from Solar and other renewables dismissed the likelihood for ning reserve online, this may storage facility has been successfully Sthe UK’s solar assets sent have already witnessed a num- such events to reduce the grid’s not be such a big problem for commissioned by Hazel Capital as UK power demand to a new ber of new generation records stability system stability as it might ap- the investor continues to build its low in July, according to data this year, particularly in Spring. “Whilst this makes it difficult pear, as fewer large units on line energy storage project portfolio. compiled by monitoring firm Unseasonable weather in April for large units to achieve long reduces the likelihood of a large The 15MW Lockleaze project in EnAppSys. helped solar to a new landmark runs, and so reduces the spin- single point of loss,” she said. Bristol received planning consent The data showed that average generation record. at the beginning of May before half-hourly demand throughout EnAppSys said that solar construction, grid connection and July stood at 26.2GW, courte- stood out from the rest of the energisation followed in under ten sy of a significant amount of country’s embedded generators weeks. embedded generation from with average PV generation be- Lockleaze was developed by Aura sources such as rooftop solar. tween 10am and 2pm reaching Power and will provide frequency These sources are seen on the 4.4GW per half-hour period. response services to National Grid grid as demand reduction and, This, the firm said, resulted in a as Hazel Capital looks to build its as a result, reduce the amount 13% reduction in gross demand. aggregation capabilities over the of power that is drawn down Katie Fenn, analyst at course of the year. By the end of from the grid. EnAppSys, said the embedded 2017, the clean energy-focused Throughout July the average generation figures had had a investment manager is targeting embedded generation figure “noticeable effect” on the daily 100MW of (export) capacity by the

stood at 3GW. demand curve. However she Getty Images Credit: end of 2017.

uk.solarenergyevents.com | 3-5 October 2017 | 9 Conferences and free content Solar & Storage Live Conference and Free Content

There are three content-packed theatres on-site with a range of free sessions and conference tickets from £499, Solar & Storage Live is the best place for anyone looking to grow their businesses. Attendees will hear directly from local authorities, PV and storage developers, housing associations, policy experts and investors about how they're taking advantage of the multi-GW solar PV and storage pipelines in the UK.

ENERGY STORAGE CONFERENCE 10am – 3pm

Tuesday 3 October 2017

This essential follow-up on the sold-out Energy Storage Summit in March will allow attendees to see exactly what's happened since UK storage tenders were announced, what DNOs and National grid are doing to facilitate the roll-out of storage and how business can still be won.

MUST-SEE SESSION: Developers and Financiers Debate, 14:00 – 15:00 Following the sold-out Energy Storage Summit earlier this year, the feedback was that investors were calling developers lazy and vice versa. For this session we have decided to host a debate where investors and developers can openly talk about risk, where it lies, where it should lie, and who needs to become more flexible.

Featured Speakers

Roger Hey Thomas Maidonis Chris Miles Puneet Sharma Future networks manager Energy storage expert Business development director Asset finance Western Power Distribution National Grid Anesco Macquarie £499.00

SOLAR BUSINESS CONFERENCE 10am – 5pm

Wednesday 4 October 2017

This is a conference packed with new opportunities. Firstly, Solar Media Intelligence will uncover exactly how large the UK's multi-GW PV pipeline is, where we are seeing activity and how to take advantage of renewed growth of post-subsidy projects. We will also look into the O&M plans for key asset owners in the UK. Lastly, see where opportunities are developing in Europe for new large scale solar projects and meet some of the UK's best installers who will update on how to win new C&I deals.

MUST-SEE SESSION: How to take advantage of the UK's new multi-GW large scale PV pipeline As of August 2017, the post-subsidy pipeline of large-scale solar farms in the UK exceeds 3GW, across more than 300 sites in the UK. See how your organisation could win new business in the UK.

Featured Speakers

Lee Moscovitch David Peill Finlay Colville Jordi Francesch Partner Commercial director Head of market research Head of asset management Greencoat Capital British Solar Renewables Solar Media Glenmont Partners £499.00

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FUTURE POWER CONFERENCE 10am – 5pm

Thursday 5 October 2017

The way we buy and sell power is changing and this conference will show you who the disruptors are, what technologies are maturing and how the future of energy trading looks in an era of internet of things, blockchain, machine learning, data driven enterprises and distributed generation and storage.

MUST-SEE SESSION: The big data tsunami – are you ready to make your data useful? Why don't consumers want to be prosumers, what are smarter, data-driven companies doing that's giving them the edge? How is this spreading to your customers too, across cities and businesses and what are the implications of an energy internet?

Featured Speakers

Paul Massara Joanna Hubbard David Hill Julie Finkler Chief executive COO Commercial director Law and policy advisor North Star Solar Electron Open Energi ClientEarth £399.00

TICKET PRICES

While visitor registration for Solar & Storage Live remains free, the three daily conferences are for ticket-holders only. Tickets can be purchased ahead of the conference. Both the Energy Storage Conference and Solar Business Conference are priced at £499.00, while the Future Power Conference is priced at £399.00. Flexible two and three-day ticket options are also available, priced from £749.00 to £1,099.00. All conference tickets include access to the exclusive networking area with all speakers, sponsors and conference delegates. Tickets also include lunch and refreshments throughout the day and a drinks reception on Tuesday 3 October after the conference adjourns.

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FREE CONTENT: WHAT'S HOT IN 2017?

IRELAND hear about how the Irish PV pipeline is growing, where rooftop deals are BLOCKCHAIN AND SOLARCOINS - do they represent free money for your starting to trickle through and the next steps for the support mechanism customers and how can you claim them? SOCIAL HOUSING - how are deals being won? HOW ARE LOCAL AUTHORITIES PLANNING EV INFRASTRUCTURE? THE IET 18TH EDITION WIRING REGULATIONS - what's in the consultation so far See how LAs have put plans in motion and how could this play out? LOCAL AUTHORITY ENERGY SERVICE COMPANIES - an in-depth explanation of THE IET ENERGY STORAGE GUIDELINES FOR INSTALLERS - how can you protect how LAs can benefit from the rise of the ESCO your business as it grows into new storage deployment WHO'S BUILDING THE UK'S LARGEST CARPORT STORAGE PROJECT? Find out on-site!

uk.solarenergyevents.com | 3-5 October 2017 | 11 Solar Power Portal Awards 2017

Wednesday 4 October 2017

ow in its fifth successive year, the Solar Power Portal Awards returns to the Hilton Metropole once again to recognise the best and the brightest of the UK’s solar and Nstorage industries. Having received a record number of nominations this year, 2017’s ceremony will see 12 lucky nominees honoured on the evening.

The 2017 shortlist is as follows:

O&M Provider of the Year Residential, Commercial & Industrial Energy Storage Residential Solar PV Project • Brighter Green Engineering Project • Charis Holt – Spirit Solar • British Solar Renewables • Broom Court Care Home – Blackwood Group, Emtec • Dry Creek House – Naked Solar • Clean Solar Solutions Energy & Scene Connect • Dubh Aird, Torringdon – AES Solar • RES • Domestic Energy Storage & Control – UK Power • Empower Community Solar Deployment – Empower Networks Community • South Mimms Project – Open Energi • Heritage Homes’ Zero Carbon Development – Finance Innovation • Wendron Cricket Club – GreenGenUK SunGift Energy • £150 million Refinancing of Operation Portfolio of • Shawm House – Advanced Renewable Power Solar Assets – NextEnergy Capital • Briar Chemicals Solar PPA – RenEnergy Product Innovation • Shotwick Solar Farm – Foresight Solar Fund • BYD B-BOX HV – BYD Commercial Rooftop PV • Solar Storm Financing – Simmons & Simmons • Multicontainer Solar Plant – Mobile Solar Plants • Hart Leisure Centre – Photon • TRINE • Zappi – MyEnergi • National College for High-Speed Rail – Photon • Q.CELLS Q.PEAK Module – Hanwha Q Cells • DPD Oldbury – EvoEnergy • TwinPeak 2 Technology – REC Solar • Edinburgh Solar Co-op – Emtec Energy Best use of Solar in a Community or Social Benefit • Sunplug – Lightsource/EDF • Gloucester Cathedral – MyPower Project • ProDrive – Joju Solar • BBOXX and AERIS for work in Central and East Africa

• Edinburgh Solar Co-op – Energy4All, Edinburgh Utility-Scale Energy Storage Project SPONSORED BY Council, Emtec Energy • Co-located Energy Storage at 10 UK Ground-mount Solar PV Project • Empower Community Solar, Empower Peterborough Solar farms – Anesco • Antrim Solar Cluster – Lightsource and Drove Lane, and New Mains Solar CICs • Big Battery in Barrow – Centrica • Briar Chemical Solar Farm – RenEnergy • Joju’s Big Community Summer – Joju Solar • Grid-connected Tesla Powerpacks – • Clayhill Solar Park – Anesco • Minvers Sports Hall Solar Rooftop – Nottingham City Camborne, Poweri Services, Tesla • Flintshire Land-fill Solar Project –Lark Energy Council • South East London Community Energy – SELCE

International Solar PV Project Contractor of the Year SPONSORED BY • A Better City Collaborative Renewable Power • Emtec Energy Energy Efficiency & CSR Programme Procurement, Boston – CustomerFirst Renewables • EvoEnergy • Aldi UK Nationwide Solar • National Museum of Bermuda – Low Carbon • Joju Solar • ICHNT Energy Efficiency Programme • Photovoltaic Lease Model for German Private • Mypower • London Metropolitan University Households – MEP Werke GmbH • Photon Energy • Spring Bank Farm • Jodphur District Solar Farm – Sterling & Wilson • SunGift Energy • Wellacre Academy Sustainable Energy Education Project

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The Venue The Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 will once again be held at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, which is situated nearby Birmingham’s NEC and Solar & Storage Live. The pre-ceremony drinks reception will take place in The Old Library, before the gala dinner is held in The Palace Suite. Attendees of previous Solar Power Portal Awards ceremonies have also stayed at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole and rooms are still available.

The Host This year’s host is Robert Llewellyn. Perhaps best known for portraying Kryten in the BBC2 comedy Red Dwarf, Llewellyn also hosted Channel 4’s Scrapheap Challenge. Llewellyn is a staunch The Evening advocate of renewables and clean energy, and holds The evening starts at 7pm with a pre-awards drinks reception, for which every attendee a particular interest in electric vehicles. His YouTube show is invited to. Attendees will then be called for dinner to start at 8:15pm. The awards Fully Charged has nearly 200,000 subscribers. Llewellyn is a returning ceremony will start by 10pm, following which the evening entertainment will commence. host of the Solar Power Portal Awards, having previously compered The bar will remain open until 1am. the event in 2014.

The Price The Menu Tickets for the Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 are competitively priced and as follows: Starter Individual tickets: £170 Artichoke, semi dried tomato and cheddar cheese tart with basil and Table of 12: £1,900 balsamic dressing The ticket price includes entry to the drinks reception, gala ceremony, three-course meal with accompanying drink and evening entertainment. Main course Book early to avoid disappointment. Grilled chicken topped with mozzarella and sundried tomatoes, leek and Each of the three previous Solar Power Portal Awards ceremonies have sold out and we potato rosti, courgettes, grilled peppers, caponata jus do not expect any tickets to be available for purchase at Solar & Storage Live. Cannelloni of goats cheese and spinach in a sauce of sun ripened tomato and tarragon finished with a rocket parmesan salad (v)

Dessert Sponsorship Opportunities Baked blood orange tart served with chocolate ice cream Some sponsorship opportunities remain available for this year’s ceremony, including category sponsors. Any party sponsoring a category will receive branding on all promotional material including the awards brochure, branding at the awards ceremony itself, a table of 12 for the evening and the opportunity to present your chosen award should you wish to. If you are interested in sponsoring this year’s awards please contact Oliver Amos ([email protected]).

uk.solarenergyevents.comuk.solarenergyevents.com | 3-5 | 3 October October 2017 2017 | |13 13 View from last year 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789Solar Energy UK 2016 in Numbers Unrivalled marketing reach

In 2016 Solar and Storage Live provided unrivalled market access to the clean energy industry in the UK and EU. We are the 360° market entry vehicle of choice, providing a unique competitive advantage across multi-channel platforms for solar, storage and energy clients looking to enhance their marketing strategies across the UK and Europe.

69,642 4m 10,000+ unique visitors to the online banner social media retweets, event website(s) – impressions favourites, shares, likes 98,119 sessions and comments

50 *1/2m 1.2m strategic partners printed magazine *email invitations adverts/features - total circulation

Visitor Feedback

Show’time’ Over half our visitors spend 5 or more hours at the show and a massive 81%+ enjoyed at least 4 hours Showtime, confirming features, content and networking at the show are unparalleled in terms of engagement and intimacy. 74% Attended 3 or How long did you spend at the show? more meetings 73% Would recommend SEUK to a colleague

 1-2 hours

 2 hours  3 hours 85.5% Rate the show  4 hours good, very good or exceptional  5+ hours 45% Attended 7 or more meetings

14 | 3-5 October 2017 | uk.solarenergyevents.com View from last year 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789 In addition to solar energy, these are the audience segments you most wanted to see more of in 2017 You spoke, we’re listening:

39 39 38 36 34 33 33 33 32

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11 Visitors Exhibitors Battery Storage Smart Energy Energy Management Non-battery Storage Energy Efficiency Off Grid Non-solar Renewables structure & Charging E-Mobility - EV Infra % Energy Storage Off Grid Smart Grids Demand Response Non-solar Renewables Data Management Energy Trading Infrastructure Electric Vehicle % -

Visitor numbers Visitors by industry sector

Unique visitors and total attendees. Manufacturer Consistent visitor numbers in light of changing market 16% conditions. 10.4% Consultancy * 9.2% Energy Management 3,887 9% Installation 7.7% EPC, Building & Construction, Property 3,150 7.1% Distributor/Wholesaler 6.6% Developer (Renewables) 5.7% Finance/Legal 1,828 3.9% Academic & Research Establishment, Education & Training 3.8% O&M 3.8% Local Authority, Housing Assocs, Landowner, Land Agent, Govt, Large Energy Users 3.3% Utilities 3% Microgeneration 2.8% Other: Telecomms, Testing & Certification, Recruitment, Logistics 2.1% PR/Media/Partnerships 1.8% Balance of Systems, BIPV 1.3% Electric Vehicles (EV) 2012 2016 1.3% Independent Power Producer

*Includes total visitors, speakers and exhibitors (i.e. all attendees) 1.2% Offgrid

uk.solarenergyevents.com | 3-5 October 2017 | 15 Marketing options Getting your message out there at Solar & Storage Live

ith thousands of members of the UK solar, storage and associated industry supply chains spending the best part of a week on the show floor, Solar & Storage Live Wrepresents the perfect opportunity to promote your company, brand and ideal to stakeholders. To help exhibitors achieve this, we have various flexible and multi- channel marketing opportunities up for grabs.

In the theatres On the show floor While our usual free conference content returns for another year, a brand If merely exhibiting at Solar & Storage Live isn’t enough, then we have a new edition to this year’s exhibition is a paid-for theatre which will be home number of options to enhance your present and attract more footfall to to our most exclusive and thought-provoking content of the week. Each day your stand. There will be a total of four digital screens placed throughout will see a different theme discussed – Energy Storage, Solar Business and the hall – one based near the entrance and three located inside our content Future Power – with an array of expert speakers. There are still a number of theatres – with digital adverts available to purchase. These will be screened sessions which you could sponsor, with packages including guest passes to on a loop over the course of the three days. And if digital isn’t your thing, we the conference and all of its content. also have availability for physical drop-down banners that can be displayed anywhere on the show floor. We can also provide directional floor tiles 1m2 For more information on available packages, in size, which bear your compa- what they entail and how you can get ny logo, stand number and an involved, please contact Meena Manthena at arrow pointing attendees in your [email protected] general direction.

For more information on any of the above information, please contact Tom Moon at [email protected]

Solar & Storage Today If you were present at the show last year, chances are you would’ve picked up one at least one copy of our daily newspapers, and these will once again Online media be gracing the show floor this year. Each morning, thousands of copies are delivered to the NEC, updating all delegates and attendees with news, Our in-house editorial team’s input will not insight and opinion from the previous day’s show. The editorial team behind be limited to the print domain. As ever, all of the PV-Tech, Solar Power Portal and Energy-Storage.News report directly from news from the show floor will be reported online at Solar the exhibition and will be on hand throughout the week. Some advertising Power Portal, with regular features including the daily live-blog opportunities within the daily newspapers remain available, ranging in size and special email snapshot newsletters to recap the day’s news. from double page spreads to quarter page ads. Limited advertising spots are available both on If you’re interested in complementing your the live-blog and on the daily newsletters and can presence at Solar & Storage Live by reaching out be arranged by contacting Oliver Amos via to the thousands of attendees who will pick up a [email protected] copy of newspaper, then contact William Swan via [email protected]

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uk.solarenergyevents.com | 3-5 October 2017 | 17 Getting to Solar & Storage Live 2017 Travelling to Solar & Storage Live

Solar & Storage Live 2017 takes place in Hall 3 at Birmingham’s NEC, which has been the home of Solar Media’s annual exhibition for the past four years. Getting to the exhibition centre could not be easier.

BY CAR

The NEC is situated just outside of Birmingham’s city centre, and it boasts that it can be reached by 75% of the UK within a three-hour drive. The M42 and M6 motorways will get you closest to the exhibition centre, from which it is clearly signposted. If you’re using a satnav, simply enter the postcode B40 1NT and follow the directions. Parking will not be a problem owing to BY TRAIN there being more than 16,000 car parking space available at the NEC, with a free shuttle bus ferrying visitors from the array of car parks to the venue’s The NEC is served by Birmingham International train station, which is just a short entrance. For those of you of an electric vehicle persuasion – and we hope walk away from the exhibition centre with a number of hotels also located within that’s a considerable portion of our visitors this year! – there are EV charging walking distance. The station is served by both Virgin Trains and London Midland and stations at both nearby trains between Birmingham International and London Euston are regular throughout Birmingham Airport the day. On all three mornings of Solar & Storage Live the first train leaves London and Resorts World, as Euston at 05:34, and the final return train leaves Birmingham International at 23:30. well as the adjacent Birmingham New Street station, in the centre of the city, is also just a 12 minute train Arden hotel, however journey away. numbers are limited.

BY AIR

If you’re travelling to Solar & Storage Live from overseas then Birmingham International Airport is located conveniently next door to the NEC. An air-rail links connects the rail station to the airport, with connecting trains running every two minutes. The airport serves destinations throughout Europe, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and North America, and is the operating base for airlines Flybe, Jet2, Monarch Airlines, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines and Thomson.

NEED SOMEWHERE TO STAY?

If you’re planning on staying for the duration of Solar & Storage Live, then there are a number of Ibis Birmingham Airport Hotel Resorts World Birmingham hotels within just one mile of the NEC. Ambassador Road Pendigo Way Solihull, Birmingham Birmingham, B40 1PU Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel B26 3AW Tel: 0121 213 6327 National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, West Midlands, B40 1PP, Tel: 0121 780 4242 Tel: 0121 780 5800 Holiday Inn Birmingham Ramada Encore NEC Airport **SPECIAL OFFER** Birmingham Coventry Road Solar & Storage Live has secured Bickenhill Lane Birmingham, B26 3QW a special offer with the Hilton Birmingham, B40 1PL Tel: 0871 663 9007 Birmingham Metropole Hotel and all Tel: 0121 780 5900 attendees wishing to stay can receive 15% off the best available rate. The Novotel Birmingham Airport special rate is available from Birmingham Airport 30 September to 6 October. This rate West Midlands can be secured online or by calling the Birmingham, B26 3QL Hilton directly. Tel: 0121 619 9003

RESORTS WORLD

One of the more recent additions to the NEC site is Resorts World. Located across Pendigo Lake from the exhibition centre, Resorts World is a shopping and entertainment centre that is open each day of the week. More than 50 design- er outlets make up the shopping centre that is open until 8pm during the week, while nearly 20 different restaurants are located throughout Resorts World, many of which remain open until the early hours – they might make a welcome change from the hotel or show floor food! Resorts World is also host to the Genting Casino which, as many attendees have found out in the past, is open 24 hours a day.

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