Updated Media invitation to Global Offshore Wind 2024 conference and exhibition

10 June 2024 - RenewableUK press release

RenewableUK is inviting journalists to the country’s biggest annual international offshore wind event, Global Offshore Wind 2024, which takes place at Manchester Central on Tuesday 18^th and Wednesday 19^th June.

Over 5,000 delegates will be attending the event, which includes over 200 exhibitors from more than 50 countries as well as over 200 conference speakers. Our updated list of keynote speakers now includes the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Claire Coutinho, Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero Ed Miliband,  President of COP26 and former  Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Sir Alok Sharma and RenewableUK Chief Executive Dan McGrail.

Industry leaders from the biggest companies in the sector will be speaking at the conference sessions, including senior figures from our event partners Equinor, Ørsted, RWE, ScottishPower Renewables, SSE Renewables and Vestas, and our innovation partner Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult. 

Other speakers include the Government’s former Offshore Wind Champion Tim Pick who now chairs the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership, as well as representatives from bp, National Grid and The Crown Estate.

A wide range of topics will be covered at the event with two simultaneous conference streams across both days, as well as sessions in our Energy Transition Zone, Innovation Theatre and Supply Chain Hub. Topics include unlocking global investment opportunities, identifying new markets, maximising job creation, growing supply chains worldwide, speeding up the consenting process, building grid infrastructure faster, accelerating the roll-out of innovative technologies such as floating wind, green hydrogen and robotics, and ensuring that the industry continues to build projects in a sustainable way which protects biodiversity.

A series of side events are also taking place at the venue such as the 19^th UK Taiwan Renewable Energy Conference. Other international delegations will be attending from Chile, China, Colombia, India, Singapore and South Korea.  

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For further information, contact

Robert Norris, Head of Communications
07969 229 913 Robert.Norris@RenewableUK.com

1. RenewableUK’s members are building our future energy system, powered by clean electricity. We bring them together to deliver that future faster; a future which is better for industry, billpayers, and the environment. We support over 470 member companies to ensure increasing amounts of renewable electricity are deployed across the UK and to access export markets all over the world. Our members are business leaders, technology innovators, and expert thinkers from right across industry.
   
   


2. For more details on Global Offshore Wind 2024, please contact events@renewableuk.com
   
   


3. RenewableUK’s full events programme is available here.