Held in partnership with the University of Nottingham’s Energy Institute and the East Midlands Freeport the 2024 Midlands Energy Summit will explore how businesses, academia and policy makers can come together to ensure that clean growth underpins our future economic landscape.
The Summit will explore the strengths of region and the role of the business community in this space.
The Midlands has all the components to lead the development of future energy provision, storage and distribution, with cutting edge developments in energy creation through Fission, Fusion and Hydrogen. We are home to businesses operating at the cutting-edge of the practical application and global roll out of future energy technologies, as well as Universities, who are at the global center of developing expertise in the commercial application of nuclear and hydrogen technologies.
On the day there will be a series of keynote presentations and panel discussions; the full agenda to be announced in due course.
Detail to date:
- Update from the East Midland Freeport, detailing activities around energy – Tom Newman-Taylor, CEO
- Advancing Energy Transformation Through Research -Professor Mark Gillott, Faculty Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Student Experience & Professor of Sustainable Building Design, University of Nottingham
- University of Nottingham Policy Commission: A just transition to Net Zero – Professor Lucelia Rodrigues, Professor of Sustainable and Resilient Cities, University of Nottingham
- Panel discussion on clean energy skills – detailing the challenges and opportunities
- Panel discussion on how the energy system needs to develop to meet the changing needs of business and the wider civil society
