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DW event 2027 2023 CU Leadership Convention
1 - 3 December 2027,
Hilton Hotel, Berlin
Investing in the Future of Energy
The Energy Transition Forum is the event to learn from and network with a truly international delegation focused on investment opportunities in renewables and the energy transition. The Forum will bring together over 400 participants including institutional investors, fund managers, utility firms, project developers, investment banks and many more to discuss the biggest global investment opportunity of the century.
Who attends?
Fund Managers
To network with over 60 investors with an interest in renewable markets and discuss emerging opportunities in areas including energy storage, smart grid and much more.
Investors
To gain the perfect introduction to an increasingly important part of the global infrastructure market and the opportunity to network with other investors as well as the wider industry.
Energy Companies
With renewable energy causing a radical change to power markets across the world, and more disruption on its way. It is important for energy companies across the globe to adapt.
Key themes for 2020
- Investor viewpoint: manager selection as funds move into increasingly diverse strategies.
- Why the outlook for solar is brighter than ever.
- How and when should infrastructure funds invest in EV charging.
- An assessment of global risk/return profiles: how much risk is too much.
- How should investors manage long-term merchant risk?
- The continued rise of corporate PPAs for infrastructure investors.
One Summit: Seven Forums
The Global Investor Forum is the largest global gathering of institutional and private capital devoted to infrastructure and the focal point of the Global Summit.
Explore infrastructure opportunities across frontier and growth markets at the Emerging Markets Forum.
Hear from government on infrastructure policy across key global markets and the broader effect of politics and government on infrastructure.
The ESG & Sustainability Forum provides a place to showcase best practice and understand what good looks like from a sustainability perspective.
Your chance to hear from investors leading the digital revolution in infrastructure investment and keep up with opportunities in an increasingly important sub-asset class.
Analyse the benefits of differing investment structures, learn about landmark transactions and pinpoint new opportunities for yield.
World-leading infrastructure managers that attended last year include:
Testimonials
Lincoln Webb
Senior Vice President, BCI
If you are serious about infrastructure investing, Infrastructure Investor’s Global Summit should be a fixture in your calendar.
Stephane Wattez-Richard
Executive Director, Conquest AM
The Global Summit is the best event to meet peers, investors and keep up-to-date on the key challenges & opportunities the asset class faces today.
Holger Haaf
Uniper
To meet so many people in such a short time is not possible without the Summit.
Sponsorship Opportunities
The Infrastructure Investor Global Summit offers a unique opportunity for organisations to raise their profile as a part of the premier meeting for infrastructure investment professionals.
For more information on available sponsorship opportunities contact Alexander Jakes, alexander.j@peimedia.com, +44 (0)203 862 7498
Rory O'Connor
Managing Director, BlackRock Renewable Power, Global CIO and Head of Europe, BlackRock
Agenda
Energy Transition Forum 2020 - Friday 9th
Welcome from Infrastructure Investor
Chair’s introduction
The Maturing of the Energy Transition: Opportunities in a merchant-power world
- An assessment of global risk/return profiles: How much risk is too much?
- Are return expectations in recently raised funds realistic?
- Specialisation into new technologies & geographies
- Where do investors expect opportunities in the next 5 years?
Investor viewpoint: Portfolio allocation and manager selection as funds move into increasingly diverse strategies post-FIT
- Where are the investor allocations to renewables coming from?
- Do investors expect to increase their allocations to renewables?
- Views on fund managers diversifying into new technologies and geographies
- To what extent should investors be comfortable with greenfield risk on renewable assets?
Perspectives on the energy transition
- Outlining why more institutional capital is flowing into green energy
- Assessing levels of policy support in the US and Europe
- Who will shape the future energy landscape? What role will infrastructure funds play?
- Disruption of business models for utilities, positioning yourself for the new world order
Coffee & networking
How can investors manage long-term merchant risk?
- What risks are being assumed when you put in record low bids, and are they ‘infrastructure’ risks?
- What are the likely scenarios of future merchant risk-exposure development?
- Are there strategic alternatives to avoiding risk? Are their ways to off-load long-term risk?
The continued evolution of the PPA market in a post-subsidy world
- Are long-term PPA’s outdated for the current environment? What are the reasons for more short term PPA’s being seen?
- What are the specific risks involved? What would a significant drop-in energy prices mean for investors?
- Predictions for future growth of the PPA market
Rory O'Connor
Managing Director, BlackRock Renewable Power, Global CIO and Head of Europe, BlackRock
Read bioKeynote Presentation – Smart Cities
How and when should infrastructure funds invest in EV charging
- When will it be a viable investment for infrastructure investors?
- Making money from electric forecasts: What are the different revenue streams?
- Getting institutional investors comfortable with EV charging, is this an infrastructure play?
- Predictions for the role of infrastructure investors in EV charging in 2030
Understanding how investors can make money from energy storage
- Lessons learned to date from fund managers
- Specific risks associated with storage: How to make it bankable
- Increasing the efficiency of storage whilst scaling technology & reducing costs
- Which model is more attractive? Pure storage or storage? Utility-Scale-Micro Projects