Thanks to the Summit’s partners, in particular our Headline Partner, the Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy (CASE).
About CASE
The Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy (CASE) is an industry-led sustainable energy research centre. Through the Green Innovation Challenge Fund, CASE supports collaborative research and development (R&D) in sustainable energy.
CASE aims to bridge the gap between industry research needs and academic research offerings. CASE’s work helps to position Northern Ireland at the forefront of the global sustainable energy market by integrating leading research into the local industrial base for the benefit of the business community and the wider economy.
Visit: www.case-research.net/
For more information on CASE, please see below for videos on the DINOSAURS Project and the VATTS Project.
Additional Partners
Northern Ireland Electricity Networks (NIE Networks) is the owner of the electricity transmission and distribution networks in Northern Ireland, employing over 1,400 people and transporting electricity to over 910,000 customers including homes, businesses and farms. Every year, NIE Networks invests around £100million in the network – consisting of 2,300 kilometres of transmission network, 47,000 kilometres of distribution network and 340 major substations. Acquired by ESB in December 2010, NIE Networks operates as an independent organisation with its own Board and management teams and separate regulation via the Utility Regulator for Northern Ireland.
A leading corporate law firm in Northern Ireland, ALG offers a combination of local market expertise and knowledge, with the strength and depth of an international law firm.
ALG’s Belfast office works with domestic and international companies and government bodies in relation to their business activities in Northern Ireland. The firm provides the full range of corporate legal services including corporate, banking and financial services, commercial property and litigation.
ALG’s Energy, Infrastructure and Natural Resources team is unrivalled in the Irish and Northern Irish market. The firm’s all-island team of specialist lawyers has decades of expertise, deep sectoral knowledge, and a commercial approach which combine to give clients the leading edge in the market. ALG ensures that its clients keep pace with market and regulatory developments so that they are well positioned to manage challenges and exploit market opportunities. The firm provides solution orientated advice to utilities, international energy companies, financial institutions, private equity, infrastructure funds, sponsors and government.
ALG’s Belfast and Dublin office teams work closely together in providing fully integrated legal services across the island of Ireland.
For more information, visit www.algoodbody.com/belfast
SONI is the Transmission System Operator (TSO) for Northern Ireland, managing the transmission system, or the “Grid” as it’s better known, second-by-second, each and every day, from its Control Centre in Belfast. In addition to SONI’s role in the present, it has a critical and central role in the delivery of Northern Ireland’s Energy Strategy and climate action ambitions through the upgrading of Northern Ireland’s energy infrastructure to facilitate a cleaner energy future.
Transmission Investment provide specialist services to investors in high voltage electricity assets covering technical and commercial assurance, and development, construction and operations management. Transmission Investment are particularly active in the transmission of offshore renewable energy (OFTOs), the development of international electricity interconnectors and grid stability projects. Working with investor partners, they develop, procure, construct, own and operate transmission assets.