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SusTEM 2015 Industrial Forum

Sustainable Thermal Energy Management Industrial Forum
9 July 2015 -- Gosforth Park Marriott Hotel -- Newcastle upon Tyne

Opening Speech: Prof.Roskilly
Keynote Speakers' Presentations : Dr Garry Felgate, Dr Stan Higgins, Dr Arjan Geveke
Speaker profiles pdf logo

Collated results: Discussion results, Opinion Poll Results, Opinion Polls Results 2

Report PDF 1,145Kb

report on the forum with compiled results

The importance of private sector involvement in any solution to climate change was stressed by Jim Yong Kim, the President of the World Bank at the World Economic Forum (WEF) last year. This year, shaping a global sustainable development agenda is a core part of the WEF climate change sessions. Towards this effort the SusTEM forum will focus on thermal energy management.

Who should attend: organisations interested in implementing leading-edge technology and being involved in planning the route to an economically and environmentally sustainable industrial environment towards 2020 and beyond.

Benefits of attending:

find out about developments in other organisations;
exhibit a poster, promote your organisation‘s novel technology or practice;
opportunity to discuss and develop solutions with expert researchers;
represent your organisation’s interests and opinions on the real challenges and industry needs for meeting energy targets towards 2020 (we will disseminate the resulting report widely to industry, researchers, policy makers, funders & other stakeholders);
discover opportunities & identify potential collaborators during networking sessions.

Agenda:

Keynote speaker: Dr Arjan Geveke, Assistant Director of Energy Policy, BIS
keynote speaker: Dr Garry Felgate, Communications Director, Association for the Conservation of Energy (UKACE).
keynote speaker: Dr Stan Higgins, CEO, North East Process Industries Cluster (NEPIC);
facilitated discussion sessions to share knowledge and foster creative thinking to identify the real challenges in meeting energy targets;
networking sessions designed to support attendees’ aims (specify during registration).

Venue: 1^st floor, Marriott Hotel Gosforth Park.

Registration: £50 including lunch & exhibition of poster. Please register online by 22 June.

To exhibit a poster (no extra charge): email k.rajendran@ncl.ac.uk

Venue: Marriott Hotel Gosforth Park [Book your group rate for SusTEM2015]

Related Event: The forum runs in conjunction with The SusTEM 2015 International Conference July 7-8, 2015, in the same venue. You are eligible for the Speaker rate, if you are attending this forum. If further discounts are required, email:k.rajendran@ncl.ac.uk.

Discussion session 1

Theme 1: barriers to application of new technology in industry.

We collected opinions from commercial companies during a previous industrial forum and a visit to The Energy Event in 2014 regarding barriers to improving energy efficiency. The results were varied but revolved round some key issues:

lack of time for considering efficiency enhancement activities / Lack of R&D facilities within the organisation/ lack of information about what’s possible
uncertainty in a regulatory framework/ lack of communication between different organisations and disciplines
costs, return on investment & payback periods which are not in line with company financial strategy/ risks of investment into development, lack of confidence in new technology
business interruption / lack of clear solution to production and process constraints (which may need to be individualised). Need to implement without compromising operating practices

This session will disseminate the feedback we received, followed by a discussion session around what is being done currently to overcome problems and what future possibilities there are.

Discussion session 2

Theme 2: industry “wish list” - a 5 year agenda

The objective of this session is to reveal industry's anticipated views, practical needs and desires for technological, policy and practice changes for a positive lead up to 2020. These results can be useful input to company strategy and for academic institutions to guide future research direction and for policy makers to understand root causes of problems and identify possible solutions.

Potential discussion points:

How is energy use being managed currently? i.e. monitoring, enhancements, problems

What future energymanagement related trends are anticipated?

What solutions and opportunities may exist to improve current situation in an ideal world?

Wouldn't it be great if....

A visualisation from WRI