A lunchtime seminar on Wales’s energy future, energy policy,
economics and renewables experts will exchange ideas at the
Pierhead, National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff Bay, at midday on
Thursday July 13.
The National Assembly for Wales Research
Service and the Learned Society of
Wales are hosting the Exchanging Ideas Seminar on the
role of renewables in Wales’s future energy
mix. , a member of the National
Assembly for Wales’s Climate Change, Environment and Rural
Affairs Committee and the Cross Party Group on Sustainable Energy
will chair the seminar.
said: “We need to examine
what the future of energy generation in Wales will look like, the
role of renewables and how to create greater certainty around
funding and future energy investment in a low carbon future.
“There are many exciting projects that may help up meet our low
carbon energy goals, from the established Gwynt y Môr wind farm
off the north Wales coast to the long awaited Swansea Tidal
Lagoon. We will examine the ambitions of the Welsh
Government to develop more renewable energy projects for the
future.”
Speakers will include:
- Dr Nina Skorupska CBE
Chief Executive Officer of the Renewable Energy
Association;
- Professor Max Munday,
Director of the Welsh Economy Research
Unit at Cardiff Business School and a Deputy Director of
the Cardiff University Water Research Institute;
- Professor Hywel Thomas
is Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research, Innovation and Engagement at
Cardiff University and one of the lead researchers onthe FLEXIS (Flexible
Integrated Energy Systems) project; and
- Professor Andrew R.
Barron is the Sêr Cymru Chair of Low
Carbon Energy and Environment at Swansea University.
