The Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy (CASE) has today announced Scott Woodard, Acting Director of the Bureau of Energy Resources at the Office of Energy Transformation at the U.S. Department of State, as a keynote speaker at the forthcoming Northern Ireland Energy Summit.

Taking place at the ICC Belfast on Wednesday 21 June 2023, the Northern Ireland Energy Summit is being led by CASE – a research partnership between Queen’s University, Ulster University and AFBI, based at Queen’s University. The Summit is also supported by corporate law firm A&L Goodbody, NIE Networks, SONI and Transmission Investment.

A transmission licence application has been made in Northern Ireland for a proposed new electricity interconnector, which aims to connect Northern Ireland and Scotland around the end of the decade. The project will be privately financed and will reduce the likelihood of electricity outages by facilitating greater access to other electricity markets. This also means that emissions of significant levels of harmful greenhouse gasses can be avoided.

NIE Networks – a core partner of the NI Energy Summit – is to invest “well in excess of £3billion” in the electricity network and create more than 1,000 new jobs over the next 10 years (2023 to 2032) to facilitate Northern Ireland’s net zero carbon future.

There can be few more important sectors at present than renewable energy.

Whether solar, wind, tidal, hydrogen or other, the ability for Northern Ireland to successfully adopt these technologies and transition to a low carbon environment in the coming years is critical to the province’s ability to maintain a globally competitive edge in the future.

Bridging Northern Ireland’s energy gap – agriculture will be very much part of the solution

​Queen’s University Belfast academic – and former Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) president – Ian Marshall believes that agriculture will be at the very heart of an energy revolution that is set take place over the coming years, writes Richard Halleron.

Global experts to gather in Belfast for NI Energy Summit

The Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy (CASE) has today launched the inaugural Northern Ireland Energy Summit – a one-day conference that will see global experts, government and energy industry leaders gather in Belfast this June.