Event Partners & Sponsors

Event Partner

Simply Blue Group 

 Simply Blue Group is a leading early-stage developer of blue economy projects in the following areas – floating offshore wind, wave energy and low-impact aquaculture. 

Headquartered in Cork Ireland, Simply Blue Group have a global pipeline of 9GW of floating offshore wind projects. In Ireland and the British Isles, Simply Blue Group has 3GW of floating offshore wind projects and have partnered with Shell (Ireland), Total Energies (Wales) and Orsted & Subsea 7 (Scotland). Simply Blue Group are developing wave energy off the West Coast of Ireland and a low-impact aquaculture project in Scotland.

Event Partner 

Orsted

The Ørsted vision is a world that runs entirely on green energy. Ørsted develops, constructs, and operates offshore and onshore wind farms, solar farms, energy storage facilities, and bioenergy plants, and provides energy products to its customers. Ørsted ranks as the world’s most sustainable energy company in Corporate Knights' 2021 index of the Global 100 most sustainable corporations in the world and is recognised on the CDP Climate Change A List as a global leader on climate action.

Sponsor 

ORE Catapult

ORE Catapult was established in 2013 by the UK Government and is part of a network of Catapults set up by Innovate UK in high growth industries. It is the UK’s leading innovation centre for offshore renewable energy.
Independent and trusted, with a unique combination of world-leading test and demonstration facilities and engineering and research expertise, ORE Catapult convenes the sector and delivers applied research, accelerating technology development, reducing risk and cost and enhancing UK-wide economic growth.
Active throughout the UK, ORE Catapult has operations in Glasgow, Blyth, Levenmouth, Aberdeen, the Humber, the South West and Wales and operates a collaborative research partnership in China.

Event Sponsor 

The Crown Estate

The Crown Estate is a significant national landowner with a diverse £16bn portfolio that includes urban centres and development opportunities; one of the largest rural holdings in the country; Regent Street and St James’s in London’s West End; and Windsor Great Park. We also manage the seabed and much of the coastline around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, playing a major role in the UK’s world leading offshore wind sector.

We are a unique business established by the Crown Estate Act 1961, operating independently, and tasked with growing the value of the portfolio for the nation and returning all of our net profit to the Treasury for the benefit of the nation’s finances. This has totalled £3.2bn over the last ten years.

Through addressing our strategic objectives, The Crown Estate delivers financial value to the Treasury and creates wider environmental, social and economic value for the nation, both for now and into the long term