SSE Thermal is responsible for SSE plc’s flexible generation and energy storage activities, with more than 650 direct employees across the UK and Ireland. As part of its commitment to achieving net zero carbon emissions, the business has a core focus on decarbonising its operations through carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen technology. SSE Thermal is part of the FTSE-listed SSE plc, the UK’s clean energy champion and a Principal Partner to the UK Government for COP26. Find out more at www.ssethermal.com.

Wherever change and innovation happens in the global energy market, Addleshaw Goddard is at the forefront, helping our clients to anticipate and respond to change and to identify and capitalise on opportunities.

AG is a good partner to have on side when change happens. We don’t like standing still.

Many businesses are actively looking at ways to be involved in the energy supply chain (either alone or with partners) whether to reduce costs, improve energy security, exploit commercial opportunities or enhance their green credentials. But making sound investment decisions in an uncertain market is risky. You need advisors who understand the uncertainties and can provide pragmatic, incisive advice that helps to minimise those risks.

3t Transform, part of the 3t Energy Group, is transforming workforce training worldwide. 

 Comprised of three operating companies focused on providing learning solutions in safety-critical, high-consequence sectors. 3t Transform enables workforces to be smarter, safer, better equipped, and more efficient. To achieve this, they provide ground-breaking new technology across three key pillars – Training, Simulators, and Learning Technologies.  

 Delivering a holistic and customised training service that blends cloud-based training management, learning management, and competency software. 3t Transform provides an end-to-end solution that radically redefines how training is organised, managed, reported, and delivered through various complementary learning technologies. 

 From state-of-the-art virtual reality (VR) training, digital twins, and E-learning training content, 3t Transform’s innovative technologies deliver a modern-day, high-performing training infrastructure for forward-thinking companies. 

BVS is a subsidiary of Bureau Veritas Group (BV), which is a world-wide organisation for classification, certification, consulting and outsourcing services with offices around the world.

Aimed at answering the needs of marine and offshore industries for technical advisory, asset management and assurance solutions, BVS brings together people, expertise, and advanced technologies to deliver proactive and tailored services, offering value to clients through innovative technical solutions.

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets.

We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency.  Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company.  We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets:  future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery.

One of the most practical options to achieve clean energy growth is hydrogen. We are supporting clients, industrial clusters and key stakeholders with their strategic intentions around hydrogen to move us rapidly towards a decarbonised economy. We are technical advisers on the processes, systems and technologies that will enable the widespread adoption of hydrogen during the transition to a zero-carbon energy system. Our experts support business case development as well as the design, safety, implementation and operation of associated infrastructure and network upgrades and carbon capture and storage requirements.

DNV is an independent assurance and risk management provider, operating in more than 100 countries. Through its broad experience and deep expertise DNV advances safety and sustainable performance, sets industry standards, and inspires and invents solutions. 

We provide assurance to the entire energy value chain through our advisory, monitoring, verification, and certification services. As the world’s leading resource of independent energy experts and technical advisors, we help industries and governments to navigate the many complex, interrelated transitions taking place globally and regionally, in the energy industry. We are committed to realizing the goals of the Paris Agreement, and support our customers to transition faster to a deeply decarbonized energy system.

ITM Power plc manufactures integrated hydrogen energy solutions for grid balancing, energy storage and the production of renewable hydrogen for transport, renewable heat and chemicals. ITM Power plc was admitted to the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in 2004. In October 2019, the Company announced the completion of a £58.8 million fundraising, including an investment by Linde of £38 million, together with the formation of a joint venture with Linde to focus on delivering renewable hydrogen to large-scale industrial projects worldwide. ITM Power signed a deal to deploy a 10MW electrolyser at Shell’s Rhineland refinery. In November 2020, ITM Power completed a £172m fundraising, including a £30m investment by Snam, one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure operators. ITM Power operates from the world’s largest electrolyser factory in Sheffield with a capacity of 1GW (1,000MW) per annum. ITM Power received an order for the world’s largest PEM electrolyser of 24MW from Linde in January 2021. Other customers and partners include Sumitomo, Ørsted, Phillips 66, Scottish Power, Siemens Gamesa, Cadent, Northern Gas Networks, Gasunie, RWE, Engie, GNVert, National Express, Toyota, Hyundai and Anglo American among others.

The Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC) develops and deploys technology to accelerate an affordable net zero energy industry. Founded in 2017, the Centre was created as part of the Aberdeen City Region Deal, with £180 million of UK and Scottish government funding to maximise the potential of the North Sea. To date NZTC have co-invested £211 million in technologies which have the potential to generate £10-15 billion in gross value added (GVA) to the Scottish economy, screened over 1560 technologies, completed or progressed 168 field trials, over 29 technologies have been commercialised and 45 tech start-ups supported.

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Offshore Energies UK is the leading trade body for the UK’s integrating offshore energies industry. Our membership includes over 400 organisations with an interest in offshore oil, gas, carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and wind. From operators to the supply chain and across the lifecycle from production to decommissioning, they are safely providing cleaner fuel, power and products to the UK. Working together with our members, we are a driving force supporting the UK in ensuring security of energy supply while helping to meet its net zero ambitions. We work on behalf of the sector and our members to inform understanding with facts, evidence and data, engage on a range of key issues and support the broader value of this industry in a changing energy landscape.

We bring almost half a century’s worth of maintenance and asset integrity experience to a wide range of energy and industrial sectors. Collaborating with our clients throughout their asset’s entire lifecycle, Stork supports them every step of the way – from planning and design through to development and construction, as well as commissioning, maintenance, modifications and decommissioning.

With a longstanding track record of working in offshore oil and gas environments, in recent years, our business diversification strategy has enabled us to secure new contracts in onshore-based industries such as nuclear and power.

UK Export Finance (UKEF) is the UK’s export credit agency, established in 1919. We support UK exporters, international project sponsors and buyers of UK goods and services, working closely with private sector partners, including banks, to offer a range of innovative and flexible finance solutions. UKEF can support UK businesses of any size and across all sectors, from capital goods to services and intangibles such as intellectual property.

In 2020/21, we provided £12.3bn in support for UK exports to 77 countries and increased our capacity to support export to over 100 foreign markets. We were ranked second internationally for the number of sustainable deals supported (TXF, 2020) and stand ready to support firms in their green transition, with £2 billion worth of direct lending dedicated to supporting clean growth projects.

UKEF has a network of experienced Export Finance Managers based in every UK region help businesses to level up their international sales. We have also expanded our internationally based regional heads, with responsibility for developing commercial ties and matching local projects to UK businesses.

To find out more about UKEF, visit www.great.gov.uk/get-finance.