Date: 29 August 2024
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Venue: Online (via Microsoft Teams)

Course Overview

Electrification of heat and transport, offers immense benefits such as in terms of emissions reductions, driving efficiencies in the economy, security of supply and electricity market gains.

It offers further benefits in terms of its interaction with the electricity grid and penetration of renewable electricity in the market.

The electrification of heat and transport is not simply new demand, but can provide more dynamic gains for the electricity sector. It also can support more dynamic applications in the electricity market and result in greater financial gain to the those electrifying.

Current wasted electricity generation can in fact be utilised by the new electrification of demand with wide gains.

This webinar will highlight the lost energy on the Irish electricity system due to dispatch down from constraints, curtailment and oversupply. It will also highlight the opportunities that are available to reduce this issue, boost electrification and highlight the business opportunities around these market changes.

Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes

Attendees will get an overview of the current electricity market. They will learn of the market structure that is allowing for waste in electricity generation and how this can be utilised by electric heat and transport and to meaning lower cost electricity.

Who Should Attend

Irish Commercial/Industrial sectors considering the electrification of heat and transport, Policy Makers, Regulation Analysts, Heating Professionals, Transport Professionals, Electricity Market Professionals, Sustainability Managers, Engineering Managers, Academics, Engineers.

Course Content

• The landscape for electrification.
• The current electricity market.
• The potential for end demand users of electrification to gain from the grid.

About the Speaker 

Patrick Calnan is the founder of Reasire, a business focused on creating a world powered by sustainable infrastructure. He is a Chartered Engineer with over two decades of experience the majority of which has been in the energy industry. He has built businesses and teams focused on the delivery of energy assets using his experience in analytics, commercial negotiations and project delivery. He has worked in all facets of the energy industry from a trading to project management, corporate Power Purchase Agreements to ancillary services markets. His experience covers onshore, offshore, storage and thermal assets as well as developing a retail business in the electricity market.