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The LowCVP’s 2019 Annual Conference, taking place in Westminster, London on Monday 8 July, will focus on the low carbon fuels agenda; acknowledging the momentum behind moves to ‘electrify everything’, while analysing which other fuel types can support the drive to cut emissions in the short, medium and long-term as well as which policy interventions are required to support them.
The event will feature discussions around sustainable biofuels, hydrogen and new generation, low emission fuels.
The LowCVP Conference will form part of a two-day fuels-focused event (8-9th July). Sponsored by Shell, the LowCVP Conference 2019 is held in collaboration with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and in association with the Renewable Energy Association (REA).
The two events focusing on future fuels will be co-located at One Birdcage Walk. Monday’s “Future Fuels on the Road to Zero” will focus on fuels policy. Tuesday’s “Low Carbon Transport: Engineering the Fuels of the Future”, run by IMechE, will focus on fuels practice, technology and emissions testing.
The 2019 LowCVP Conference is being held in association with the Renewable Energy Association who will be collaborating in a parallel discussion on the role of next generation fuels during the afternoon session.
A post-conference evening drinks reception will be held in the grand Elizabethan style Library at One Birdcage Walk, bringing together delegates and participants from both events, as well as invited MPs, Lords and other VIPs.
Monday 8 July 2019
One Birdcage Walk, Westminster
Event held in collaboration with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and in association with Renewable Energy Association (REA)
In Association with London Climate Action Week 1-8 July
Sponsored by Shell
DRAFT AGENDA (subject to change)
10.00
Registration
10.30
Welcome and introduction
Andy Eastlake, Managing Director, LowCVP
10.35
The climate context; twelve years for 1.5 degrees C
Prof Kevin Anderson, Professor of Energy and Climate Change, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
10.50
Electrification, yes; but what else for the road transport sector in delivering decarbonisation?
Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Member of the Committee on Climate Change
11.05
Future fuels for road transport
Prof Neville Jackson, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Ricardo
11.20
Discussion/Q&A
11.30
Break, networking and exhibitions
11.55
Can electrification alone deliver the ‘Road to Zero’ or do we need a more nuanced strategy?
‘Courtroom’ discussion (style of BBC’s ‘Moral Maze’)
Chair: Adam Chase, Director, E4Tech
Panellists:
• Greg Archer, UK Director, T&E
• Philippa Oldham, Head of National Network Programmes, Advanced Propulsion Centre
• Gaynor Hartnell, Head of Renewable Transport Fuels, Renewable Energy Association
• Jo Coleman OBE, UK Energy Transition Manager, Shell
Witnesses:
• Prof Dave Greenwood, Leader of the Advanced Propulsion Systems team, Warwick Manufacturing Group (Battery progress & future prospects)
• Prof Rob Morgan, Professor of Thermal Propulsion Systems, University of Brighton (Freight and hard-to-electrify applications)
• Amanda Lyne, Chair, HFCA (Hydrogen and fuel cells)
• Jeremy Tomkinson, CEO, NNFCC (Biofuels)
• Anna Lindt, Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (Motor industry fuels perspective) (tbc)
13.00
Discussion with participants – Q&A
13.15
Lunch, networking and exhibitions
14.30
Welcome back and introduction
Chair tbc
14.35
Ministerial keynote
Minister of State for Transport (tbc)
Followed by a Q&A session
14.55
Future fuels; the view from a transport operator
Speaker tbc
15.10
Next generation fuels – overview
Gaynor Hartnell, Head of Renewable Transport Fuels, Renewable Energy Association
15.25
Short tea/coffee break
15.40
PARALLEL SESSION ONE:
The commercialisation of next generation fuels
Chair: Gaynor Hartnell, Head of Renewable Transport Fuels, Renewable Energy Association
Panellists:
• Ben Madden, Director of Element Energy and Project Coordinator, H2ME Mobility
• Neville Hargreaves, Business Development Director, Velocys
• Andy Cornell, Finance and Commercial Director, Progressive Energy
Followed by discussion and Q&A
15.40
PARALLEL SESSION TWO:
Maximising the benefits of current, sustainable transport fuels
Chair: Jonathan Murray, Policy and Operations Director, LowCVP
Panellists:
• Aaron Berry, Deputy Head, Low Carbon Fuels Division, Department for Transport (Carbon and sustainability standards in transition fuels)
• Grant Pearson, Commercial Director, Ensus (Biofuels policy, E10)
• Emmanuel Desplechin, Secretary-General, ePURE (International perspective; implementation of RED2) Followed by discussion and Q&A
17.00
Government low carbon fuels strategy for transport
Rachel Solomon Williams, Energy Technology and Innovation, Department for Transport
17.15
Conference summary and LowCVP plans
Andy Eastlake, Managing Director, LowCVP
17.30- 19.00
Networking Reception (Library)
An opportunity to network in the grand Elizabethan-style library at One Birdcage Walk with VIP guests.
Guest speaker/s to be confirmed
Note: The LowCVP Conference will be followed on 9 July by an IMechE-led event focused on future fuels (engineering and practice) at the same venue.
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