Sponsors 

Headline Sponsor

Celtic Sea Cluster 

The Celtic Sea Cluster Board was established by Welsh Government and Cornwall & Isle of Scilly LEP and supported by Marine Energy Wales, Cornwall Council owned Wave Hub Development Services Ltd (trading as Celtic Sea Power) and Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult. The Board has agreed Terms of Reference and identified enabling actions to be delivered through working groups to accelerate market creation in the Celtic Sea, identify project pipeline and reduce project timelines, mobilise the regional supply chain, establish a strategy for infrastructure and help deliver the Governments Offshore Wind Sector Deal for UK content. The CSC Board now includes The Crown Estate as an associate member, representation from the Celtic Sea Developers Alliance and UK Government BEIS as a formal observer. The Celtic Sea Cluster was formally launched in Cardiff, Wales, in September 2021 and now has over 120 members and is developing a strategic board membership to include local government representation.

Event Partner

Bute Energy

Bute Energy are designing renewable energy parks in Wales, for Wales. The climate emergency is the most pressing concern of our times. We’re driving the shift to a decarbonized energy system across Wales by creating a family of energy parks that generate clean, green onshore power and bring critical economic growth to our communities.  We’re privately owned, for public good. We want to make sure Wales is a thriving, healthy, wealthy nation that independently powered by renewable, sustainable and decarbonization energy – this is our vision for a future Wales. Our mission is to deliver on this promise – by creating renewable energy projects that provide clean, affordable power whilst fostering local economic growth and social wellbeing.  Our parks across Wales will deliver 25% of the green energy that Welsh Government says we need to get to Net Zero, playing a pivotal role in meeting their target for 100% renewable electricity in Wales by 2035.

Event Partner

BlueFloat Energy | Renantis Partnership

The Partnership brings together BlueFloat Energy and Renantis with the aim of contributing to a world leading floating offshore wind industry in the UK, combining innovative technology with a plan to attract and grow a skilled workforce and stimulate a thriving local supply chain. In the Celtic Sea, we are developing two floating offshore wind projects, Llywelyn and Petroc, located in Welsh and English waters, which could make a significant contribution to helping the UK achieve its 5GW target for floating offshore wind by 2030. The Partnership has two floating wind sites in Scotland – Broadshore north of Fraserburgh and Bellrock east of Aberdeen, as well as the majority stake in the consortium with Ørsted to develop the Stromar project east of Wick. We also secured bid success in the recent INTOG leasing round with two innovation projects, Sinclair & Scaraben, which lie adjacent to Broadshore. https://www.bluefloat.com https://www.renantis.com

 Event Partner

Equinor 

Equinor is a broad energy company that is leading the energy transition and building a material position in renewable energy, focused on offshore wind. We are developing as a global offshore wind major, currently powering European homes with renewable electricity from offshore wind farms in the UK and Germany and advancing clusters of integrated renewable energy offerings in Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. We are currently constructing the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, and have installed more floating offshore wind than anyone else through our Hywind Scotland and Hywind Tampen wind farms.

Event Partner

RWE 

By 2030, RWE want to be one of the world's largest producers of electricity from renewable energies and will be investing more than 50 billion euros in offshore and onshore wind power, solar, batteries, flexible generation and hydrogen. We are expanding our own capacity in these areas to 50 gigawatts. RWE global portfolio includes offshore and onshore wind, solar, hydrogen, batteries, biomass and gas, plus tailored energy solutions for large customers, covering Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.

Platinum Sponsor

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. 

Event Sponsor

Apollo

Apollo is a front-end and through-life engineering provider that enables our clients' easy access to a highly skilled engineering capability across the energy industry and through the energy transition.

At Apollo, we understand your problems, we know budgets are limited and timescales are short. We use our experience to help you reduce risk, lower costs and make informed engineering decisions, locally and globally.

We work with operators, service companies, installation contractors and vessel owners across oil and gas, downstream and nuclear as well as playing our part in the energy transition by supporting wind, wave and tidal projects. Now in our twelfth year, we’ve grown from two people to 120 and provide engineering support to global super majors and technology start-ups. We thrive on the challenge and believe we can provide answers that no one else can.

Education & Skills Sponsor 

Blue Gem Wind 

EDF Renewables UK and Ireland is a subsidiary of EDF Group, one of the world’s largest low-carbon electricity companies, and our investment and innovation is reducing costs for consumers and bringing significant benefits for communities.

In the UK and Ireland, EDF Renewables has over 2GW of assets in operation or under construction across offshore wind, onshore wind, solar and battery storage, as well as a development pipeline exceeding 10GW.

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Careers Wales

Careers Wales is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Welsh Government providing an impartial, all age careers guidance service to the people of Wales.

We work with young people, adults, teachers and parents and can help with career planning, preparing to get a job, finding and applying for apprenticeships courses and training.

We support employers to raise awareness of their company or sector and to reach out to future employees.

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Gwynt Glas

Gwynt Glas is a floating offshore wind farm project being developed by EDF Renewables, supported by exclusive development partner DP Energy. The project is bidding into The Crown Estate Leasing Round 5 in the Celtic Sea.

The Gwynt Glas team are working collaboratively to support the advancement of technology, infrastructure and supply chain in order to maximise the value of the Celtic Sea opportunity to South Wales and the South West of England and meet Government net zero targets. EDF Renewables and DP Energy have pioneered and piloted the Destination Renewables programme at Pembrokeshire College and are working to roll-out at multiple Welsh and English FE colleges.

Event Sponsor

EDF Renewables 

EDF Renewables UK and Ireland is a subsidiary of EDF Group, one of the world’s largest low-carbon electricity companies, and our investment and innovation is reducing costs for consumers and bringing significant benefits for communities.

In the UK and Ireland, EDF Renewables has over 2GW of assets in operation or under construction across offshore wind, onshore wind, solar and battery storage, as well as a development pipeline exceeding 10GW.

Event Sponsor

Floventis Energy

In 2021 Cierco and SBM Offshore formed the joint venture company, Floventis Energy, with the goal of becoming a market leader in offshore floating wind power.  The joint venture brings together complementary skills and expertise to produce the know-how required to develop and deliver complex technology projects successfully in the offshore environment.  Already driving demonstration projects in California and the UK, Floventis is building a portfolio of projects to take floating offshore wind, through a stepwise process - increasing project size, to full scale commercial development proposals by 2030.

Event Sponsor

ORE Catapult

We are the UK’s leading technology innovation and research centre for offshore renewable energy. The last 10 years have seen a remarkable transformation in the offshore renewable energy sector, and ORE Catapult has been at the very heart of that.

ORE Catapult will play a key role in delivering the UK’s largest clean growth opportunity, through our mission to accelerate the creation and growth of UK companies in the offshore renewable energy sector. We will use our unique facilities and research and engineering capabilities to bring together industry and academia and drive innovation in renewable energy.

Event Sponsor

Renantis

Renantis (formerly Falck Renewables) develops, designs, constructs and operates onshore wind farms, solar plants, floating offshore wind farms and energy storage facilities globally. Renantis has a strong track record of providing specialised services and expertise at all stages of the value chain. From production to consumption, they provide technical advisory, asset management and energy management services to clients in 40 countries.

In the UK, Renantis’ first onshore wind farm was Cefn Croes, near Aberystwyth. Renantis now has 12 operational wind farms in the UK, from the north of Scotland to Wales with 700 MW of projects including solar and hydrogen in advanced development and a further pipeline of earlier stage development projects of some 600 MW. 

Event Sponsor

RPS Group 

As the offshore wind industry continues to develop and mature globally, RPS specialists are supporting developers and stakeholders with their renewable energy investments, innovation and commercialisation. 

We offer a range of technical consultancy and operational support to this rapidly growing market, these services include; planning, environment, permitting & consenting; site investigation & characterisation; port infrastructure and logistics; metocean (including wind resource measurement); unexploded ordnance (UXO); marine assurance and QHSSE, data management & visualisation. Our breadth of services enables our teams to work alongside our clients throughout the asset lifecycle, providing international standard advice.

Event Sponsor

Statkraft 

Statkraft is Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy.

Across our UK businesses we employ nearly 500 staff in Wales, England and Scotland. We’re at the heart of the energy transition, proud to be technology agnostic, with activities across wind, solar, hydro, storage, grid stability, EV charging, green hydrogen as well as being the UK’s leading energy transition trader.

The UK is an essential market for Statkraft’s global ambitions to develop 9 GW of wind and solar power by 2025. To date we’re proud to have invested over £1.3 billion in the UK's renewable energy infrastructure and facilitated over 4.3 GW of new-build renewable energy generation through Power Purchase Agreements.

Event Sponsor

White Cross 

White Cross Offshore Windfarm is a 100 MW test and demonstration, floating offshore windfarm in the Celtic Sea. The project is being developed by joint venture partners Cobra and Flotation Energy.

White Cross is a flagship project of Cobra and Flotation Energy’s long-term partnership, which builds on previous experience of developing and delivering floating offshore wind in the UK. White Cross will be integral to the delivery of the UK Government’s 5 GW ambition for floating offshore wind and will play a key role in supporting the UK’s net zero ambitions. One of a few partnerships globally to have delivered a floating offshore wind project through to commercial operation, we have the technical knowledge and engineering expertise that leave us uniquely placed as pioneers, shaping the future of renewable energy.

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