Meeting your energy needs
July 1st 2007 Meeting your
The Energy Event covers all aspects of energy
efficient technology as well as procurement and
management. Here IP&E previews this year's event
and finds out what's in store for visitors
Now in its seventh year and newly rebranded,
The Energy Event will
take place on the 12th and 13th
September 2007 at the National
Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham. The
event, sponsored by British Energy is the
UK's only annual conference and
exhibition solely focused on the issues of
energy procurement, management and
efficiency.
As well as boasting a sold-out
exhibition, a major part of The Energy
Event's success over recent years has
been the quality of its conference and
seminar programme. This programme has
been enhanced for 2007 with the addition
of a new, high profile conference named
Energy Insight. Aimed at directors and
senior managers, the conference is split
into two topic areas with day one focusing
on energy procurement while day two
concentrates on energy management.
Speakers include Ian Pearson, MP, Minister
for climate change and the environment
and Matthew Farrow, head of environment
at the CBI.
Other speakers delivering papers at
Energy Insight may be of particular interest
to readers of IP&E. Andy Batchelor,
director of energy and fuel, Tesco Stores
will be speaking on day one of the
conference to give a FTSE 100 end user
perspective. Other big names on the
programme include an end user case
study from Simon Mendham from
Vodafone and William McKeever, head of
energy Europe/MEA at Bloomberg whose
paper looks at Electricity trends, analysis
and forecasting. For full details of the
speakers, readers should visit:
www.theenergyevent.co.uk
Alongside this new conference for 2007
is the established conference and seminar
programme designed and run by The
Energy Event partners. These partners
include: ESTA (Energy Services and
Technology Association); MEUC (Major
Energy Users Council); Envirowise; CIBSE
(Chartered Institute of Building Service
Engineers; BCAS (British Compressed Air
Society) and Encore International. The full
conference and seminar programme is
available at the website mentioned above
but there is a great deal to interest readers
of IP&E here. Highlights include a Water
Efficiency Workshop run by Envirowise on
both days of the event and the CIBSE
seminar on Thursday 13th September
which covers the role of building services
within the energy matrix and focuses
specifically on building certification and
lighting.
Certain elements of the MEUC's two
days of seminars might be of interest to
readers, especially the session on the
afternoon of day two which is a Carbon
Seminar covering; Phase 2 of the EU
Emissions Trading Scheme featuring
specific industry viewpoints. Also, the
ESTA 'Active Energy Management'
programme which runs across the two
days promises to have a spread of
relevant information such as a legislation
session which looks at end user
legislation, building energy labelling and
smart metering plus a session on
compressed air which is presented jointly
with BCAS.
Readers of IP&E will also be interested
in the large number of exhibitors offering
energy efficient technology and services.
Technology areas such as compressed air
and drives are well-represented as are
thermography and energy metering. For
those looking at their facility as a whole,
the gamut of heating, lighting and air
conditioning technology is represented
while on the services side there are many
exhibitors that offer consultancy and outsourcing.
A full list of exhibitors can be
found at: www.theenergyevent.co.uk
Eamonn Brennan, event director
outlines the key messages for those
looking to visit The Energy Event saying
"The event delivers an undiluted
experience for today's busy professionals,
offering both insight and innovation
through a content rich educational stream
and over 100 key exhibitors of products
and services."
Potential visitors to The Energy Event
are encouraged to pre-register at
www.theenergyevent.co.uk.
It is also possible to register for
seminars and conferences through the
site, which is advisable as places are
limited. Those without internet access
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