1. business and industrial
2. energy
3. renewable energy
4. wind energy

IWFA May Conference 2015
7th of May - HERITAGE HOTEL PORTLAOISE
Session 1: Next Support Scheme for Wind/Revaluation of Wind Farms
Chaired by Justin Rutherford, Director Rutherford Consulting Ltd.
Time
9:50 – 10:00
Talk
Welcome Address
10:10 – 10:20
Next Support Scheme for Wind
The Department will provide an overview of renewable
energy policy including the process underway to
develop a new renewable electricity support scheme
Re-Valuation of Wind Farm Rates
The Valuation Office will provide an overview on the
revaluation of wind farms rates and how the appeal
process works
Q&A
Coffee & Networking in Exhibitors Area
10:20 – 10:40
10:40 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30
Speaker
James Carville, Chairman Irish Wind
Farmers Association
Errol Close, Assistant Principal Officer
(Decarbonisation Division) - DCENR
Declan Lavelle, Head of Valuation
Services
Session 2: The Future of Wind
Chaired by Sheila Layden – Director, Energypro
Time
11:30 – 11:50
11:50 – 12:10
12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 12:45
12:45 – 14:00
Talk
Speaker
Implementation by Ireland of the grid obligations Joanne Finn, Partner at Eugene F
in the Renewables Directive
Collins
I-SEM Update
Grattan Healy, Ierne Ltd
“Grattan’s talk will pick up on the legal issues
Joanne Finn,
presented by Joanne Finn, and examine their
relevance, particularly as regards curtailment, to the
design of I-SEM, while outlining the SEMC’s latest
‘Markets’ consultation paper”
Flywheel Energy Storage
Frank Burke, Schwungrad Energie
Flywheel energy storage consists of an advanced carbon
fibre tube, which is floated on magnets inside a
vacuum. Electricity from renewable sources like wind
turbines is used to spin the tube or flywheel at very high
speeds. Because the flywheel is in a near frictionless
environment, it continues to spin until such time as the
energy is required back in the electricity grid. The new
hybrid flywheel energy storage plant is to be built at a
site in Rhode, Co Offaly
Q&A
Lunch followed by Networking in Exhibitors Area – Kindly sponsored by Enersol
Mnag.ie
IWFA May Conference 2015
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Session 3: Preparing your Project for Final Stages of Gate 3/ Increasing
Revenue on your Wind Farm
Chaired by Wilke Janssen - Sales Country Manager, Enercon
Time
14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:40
15:40 – 16:00
Talk
Increasing Windfarm Revenue through Data
Analysis
An explanation on how to analyse your SCADA
data to help improve turbine performance. Talk
will highlight issues on power curves, common
ways in which availability may be mis-calculated
by your SCADA system, and some suggestions for
predictive maintenance analysis.
Section 5 – The Developer’s Perspective
Securing Financial Close
Banks step by step guide to preparing your wind
farm for financial close
Q&A
Networking Evening
Speaker
Ronan O’Meara, Director, EnergyPro
Alice Whittaker, Philip Lee Solicitors
Lunch Sponsor:
7 pm - 6th May
Heritage Hotel Portlaoise
Supporting Sponsors:
Mnag.ie
IWFA May Conference 2015
7th of May - HERITAGE HOTEL PORTLAOISE
Chairs for Each Session:
Justin Rutherford, Director Rutherford Consulting Ltd
Justin is a consultant with 15yrs renewable energy experience, specialising in wind energy development, financial
modelling, and energy trading under supplier-lite structures.
Sheila Layden, EnergyPro Ltd Through Moneenatieve Wind Farm Ltd, she developed two windfarms, totalling 12 MW and operational since 2005. Sheila has managed windfarms in Ireland for over 17 years, for individual windfarm owners, MWFL and corporate funds. In 2014 she set up EnergyPro and is currently spearheading EnergyPro’s growth in the area of windfarm data analytics. This includes reviewing windfarm data to proactively manage and improve turbine performance. For the past eighteen months she has been actively involved in the consultation process for the design of the I-­‐SEM. Sheila has a Bachelor of Engineering from NUI Galway, and a Diploma in Accounting and Finance. Wilke Janssen, Sales Country Manager with Enercon
Wilke has an Industrial Engineer Degree in Environmental and Energy Technology and has been working in the Irish Wind
Energy Market for the last 5 years.
Speakers:
Errol Close - Assistant Principal Officer (Decarbonisation Division), DCENR
Errol is an Assistant Principal Officer in the Decarbonisation Division in DCENR with responsibility for management of
the REFIT schemes and the development of the new support scheme for renewable electricity
Mnag.ie
IWFA May Conference 2015
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Grattan Healy BEmech MBA, Energy Adviser, Director, Ierne Ltd.
Grattan worked as the Energy Policy Adviser to the Green Group in the European Parliament / European Free Alliance from 1995 to 2001, after which he returned to Ireland to develop renewable energy projects. For that purpose and also to provide consulting services, he founded Ierne Ltd (ierne.ie). He is a council member of the Irish Wind Energy Association, full member of Meitheal na Gaoithe, and a partner in Fuinneamh Sceirde Teoranta (a founder member of the National Offshore Wind Association of Ireland), which is developing an offshore wind project off the Galway coast. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from UCD and an MBA from Trinity. Joanne Finn – Partner Eugene F Collins
Joanne is a partner and is head of the EU Competition & Regulated Markets Group. She has over 14 years’ experience
advising Irish and international clients.
Joanne regularly advises on competition law and merger control for key clients in the energy, agri-food and health sectors.
She has advised on investigations by and complaints to the Competition Authority and the European Commission and
has advised Government Departments on successfully obtaining State aid approval. In 2010, Eugene F. Collins was
appointed as an Irish advisor to the European Commission’s Legal Service in the Commission’s intervention in the
landmark BIDS case, and the firm carries out on-going advice for that client.
Joanne advises public and private sector clients on the implications of EU and Irish regulation in a wide range of sectors
including consumer law, energy, telecommunications, aviation and health. Joanne also advises on procurement law and
is regularly involved in acting both for and against awarding authorities in relation to challenges to contract awards.
Ronan O’Meara – Director EnergyPro
Ronan is a chartered engineer and renewable energy analyst, with a particular research interest in computational fluid
dynamics modelling of wind flow patterns around obstacles. As a director with EnergyPro, he focuses on wind turbine
performance analysis. He previously worked as Engineering Manager at Airgen Renewables where he led a team of 15
engineers and technicians in analysing and developing wind turbine sites across the UK. Ronan holds a Bachelor of
Engineering from UCD and a Masters in Renewable Energy Systems Technology from Loughborough University.
Alice Whittaker , Partner Philip Lee Solicitors
Alice is a specialist in Environmental, Planning and Energy Law, and a partner in Philip Lee.