11th Sept 2025 | 11.00 – 12.30PM BST | Free Live Webinar
Renewable energy projects are increasingly won or lost at the development stage, yet many developers continue to treat safety and risk management as downstream concerns. With longer timelines, complex joint ventures, and tighter margins, the stakes have never been higher for getting early-stage decisions right.
ARMSA Academy’s expert panel webinar brings together leading specialists in legal, HSE, commercial, and client-side development to tackle the critical decisions that determine renewable project success.
This webinar reveals how development choices cascade through construction and operations, creating hidden risks that erode margins, trigger delays, and compromise asset performance.
Join our panel of industry specialists as they answer some of our carefully crafted questions:
- Why developers hold more risk than they realise?
- Many developers still treat safety as a downstream responsibility. Why is this mindset dangerous?
- We’re dealing with longer timelines, more complex JV models, and tighter margins. What does that do to risk visibility and accountability?
- How do regulatory frameworks like CDM 2015 expect developers to behave, and how does this differ from current practice?
Is there anything else on your mind? Register now to submit your question to the panel, and we will pose your question live!
Sarah Logan-Symm
Development Project Manager – Vattenfall UK
Drawing on her dual expertise in development and HSE and first-hand experience of how early decisions can escalate risk during construction, Sarah brings a grounded, real-world perspective to the panel on what developers often overlook.
Paul Bradley
Head of Operations – Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Energy Division
Paul brings a highly authoritative and regulatory lens to the panel, grounded in decades of frontline and strategic leadership across high-hazard sectors. The UK’s regulatory framework has attracted the attention of emerging renewable markets making the HSE the go to regulator on the international stage.
Sonia Dunlop
CEO – Global Solar Council
Sonia represents the collective view of the solar PV industry and can highlight what’s needed at a sectoral level to build resilient, safe, and investable pipelines. The GSC is playing a pivotal role in harmonising standards across the solar PV value stream.
Jimmy Hansson
CEO – Skala Partners
Jimmy’s international experience working at executive level with utilities and global IPPs brings a strategic, investor-aligned view of development risk. He has dealt with the consequences of early decisions on commercial outcomes, asset value, and scalability.
