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 should enquire below:

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