Annual Innovation Conference
Every year, ENA hosts the Summit serving as a vital platform for the dissemination of knowledge surrounding completed and ongoing innovation projects. This conference provides Energy Networks with a unique opportunity to engage directly with stakeholders, gaining valuable insights into their priorities, preferred modes of engagement, and fostering further opportunities for collaborative innovation projects.
Energy Innovation Summit 2024, 29-30 October at Exhibition Centre Liverpool
The Energy Innovation Summit, the UK's leading event for energy innovation, today revealed the agenda for this year's event, which is prioritising three themes this year:
- Accelerating system capacity to enable mass integration of low-carbon technologies
- Understanding the challenges of operating in net zero and enabling an inclusive transition for all
- Ensuring reliability and resilience of an increasingly critical energy system
Agenda can be viewed here.
Energy Innovation Summit 2024
Day 1 - 29 October 2024
Opening and Keynote Address
Updating the innovation strategy in response to Government policy
Enabling an inclusive transition that supports low income and vulnerable customers through their decarbonisation journey.
How can network innovation meet the Net Zero needs of customers?
Growing flexibility and services to make it more accessible, fair and beneficial.
Understanding and developing operational and technical resilience, to reduce outages and speed up restoration.
Solutions for reducing the environmental impact of operations and from building new assets or repurposing existing.
Emerging innovation from supply chain and services
Accelerate the implementation of scalable impactful ideas into BaU
Day 2 - 30 October 2024
Whole system coordination of planning and operations across multiple systems and organisations using data and digital vectors
Distilling the longer-term innovation needs for new connections of the future
How does network innovation enable and enhance customers’ transition plans?
Generating evidence and learning to enable the transformation of networks, operations and customers to hydrogen
How can innovation accelerate addressing customer capacity challenges?
Improving safety of the networks and fault prevention to minimise impact on customers.
Technology solutions to increase capacity of existing infrastructure to support growth in renewables and LCTs
Encouraging and supporting radical innovation to resolve strategic challenges
Previous Summit Presentation Slides
2023
2022
