2015 Programme
Here is the programme from last year’s National Wood Fuel Conference so you can get a flavour of the event.
All the speaker presentations, from the conference, are available to read here.
| Thursday 15 October 2015, Epsom Downs Racecourse, Surrey | |
| 08:00 | Registration, Refreshments and Trade Exhibition |
| 09:15 | Welcome by the Conference Chairman Dougal Driver, CEO, Grown in Britain |
| 09:20 | Government Policy for Biomass and the RHI Chris Miles, Senior Advisor, REA |
| 09:40 | Funding Support for Woods and Wood Fuel Alison Field, SE Director, Forestry Commission |
| 10:00 | District Heating Simon Woodward, Chairman, ukDEA |
| 10:20 | Biomass at Highfield School Bill Mills, Chairman, Highfield School, Surrey |
| 10:40 | The World's Smallest Biomass CHP Felix Ertl, Director of Sales, Entrade |
| 11.00 | Comfort Break |
| 11.20 | Sustainability of Forest Resources Ian Tubby, Principal Adviser for Business & Markets, Forestry Commission |
| 11.40 | Landowner Opportunities Robin Edwards, Director South East, CLA |
| 12.00 | Private Forestry Sector Opportunities Niel Nicholson, Nicholson’s Forestry |
| 12.20 | Sustainability requirements in the RO, Domestic RHI and Non-Domestic RHI Nicola Percival, Policy Manager, Non-Domestic RHI, Ofgem |
| 12.40 | Conference Summary Mark Lebus, CEO, LC Energy |
| 12.45 | Lunch, Networking and Trade Exhibition |
| Trade Exhibitors: | |
| CLA Charles Russell Speechlys Law Firm Entrade Forestry Commission LC Energy & Ecolyf Natural England Ofgem Spanner RE GmbH Surrey Hills Enterprises The Woodland Trust ukDEA Verdo Renewables WHA Wilkins Kennedy |
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| 14.00 | Q&A Panel Discussion Chaired by Dougal Driver, CEO, Grown in Britain |
| 14.30 | Expert Surgeries: |
| Table 1 Case Studies in Wood Fuel Simon Whalley, Chairman of the Birtley House Group Ltd Bill Mills, Chairman, Highfield School, Surrey Lucy Clark, LC Energy |
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| Table 2 ESIF Funding for Wood Fuel Supply Chains - Who, What, How? Chris Quintana, EM3 Local Enterprise Partnership |
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| Table 3 Funding Projects C2C Local Enterprise Partnership |
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| Table 4 What’s Taxing You about Woodland Ownership? Jonathan Thompson, Sally Ashford & Iwan Williams, Charles Russell Speechlys Law Firm |
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| Table 5 Sustainability Criteria Ian Tubby, Principal Adviser for Business & Markets, Forestry Commission Helen Bentley-Fox, Technical Advisor, BSL Jessica Tull, Administrator, BSL |
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| 16.00 | Close |
