Our Sponsors - UK Solar Summit

2023 Sponsors and Partners

Interested in Sponsoring?

If you would like to become a sponsor of our UK Solar Summit then please get in touch with the team today.

Diamond Sponsor

LONGi

LONGi leads the solar PV industry to a new height with product innovations and optimized power-cost ratio with breakthrough monocrystalline technologies. LONGi supplies more than 30GW of high-efficiency solar wafers and modules worldwide yearly, about a quarter of global market demand. LONGi is recognized as the world’s most valuable solar technology company with the highest market value. Innovation and sustainable development are two of LONGi’s core values.

longi-solar.com

Gold Sponsor

EDF Renewables

EDF Renewables is one of the UK’s leading renewable energy companies, developing, building, operating and maintaining innovative wind, solar and battery storage projects. We have more than 1 GW in operation and we’re planning to build five times what we already have in operation and to do that responsibly and sustainably.

Working closely with our R&D division, we’re developing future innovations, including hydrogen technology. We’re also investing in decarbonising the UK’s transport sector and developing vital power infrastructure for charging electric vehicles.

We’re passionate about creating a future where clean, low carbon energy is accessible and affordable for everyone and we want to do this as quickly as we can. By helping individuals, communities and businesses to become greener, we’re playing our part in our shared mission to transform the economy and create new sustainable employment.

edf-re.uk

Silver Sponsors

Freedom

Freedom, an NG Bailey Group company, are leaders in electricity infrastructure. From concept to completion our in-house experts design, connect, build, maintain, and renew connections, up to 132kv.
We work in partnership with customers to ensure service excellence, innovation, and value for money.

Our revolutionary and innovative POC-MASTTM allows customers, that require a connection into the electricity distribution network a safer, faster, and more affordable point of connection. It is available for loop-in loop-out and tee-off connections, up to 132kV, on both the most widely used tension and suspension towers for generation or load.

POC-MAST | Freedom | NG Bailey

RatedPower

RatedPower is on a mission to digitalize the renewable energy industry and maximize clean energy’s potential through cloud-based solutions.

Through pvDesign—their software to automate and optimize the study, analysis, design, and engineering of photovoltaic plants in all its stages—RatedPower helps companies optimize the design and engineering of utility-scale solar PV plants, maximize their profitability, and reduce energy costs (LCOE). The software has reportedly reduced by 5% the LCOE of solar plants designed with it, which translates to a 20% higher solar plant profitability.

pvDesign optimizes the design and carries out the engineering of utility-scale solar photovoltaic plants, reducing 85% of the time spent in designing PV, from 4-6 weeks to under 2 minutes.

Having simulated 9.5 TW in more than 160 countries, pvDesign brings value to developers, IPPs, contractors, investors, and manufacturers, helping them make better decisions, democratizing engineering knowledge and boosting the deployment of solar plants worldwide.

ratedpower.com

Schletter

Schletter is a pioneer and a leading brand in the development, production, and distribution of solar mounting systems with over 45 GW deployed. Our innovative solutions for rooftops and ground-mount systems are highly regarded for their durability, strength, and corrosion protection. Engineered in Germany, Schletter is a market leader in Europe and beyond with a stable and diversified customer base consisting of EPCs, IPPs/utilities and installers.

We support solar and everything it stands for – with robust PV system mounts, proven performance, an experienced team, and a belief in the enduring value solar offers humanity.

schletter-group.com

Stäubli

An international Group with a passion for innovation.

Stäubli is a global industrial and mechatronic solution provider with four dedicated Divisions: Electrical Connectors, Fluid Connectors, Robotics and Textile, serving customers who aim to increase their productivity in many industrial sectors. We are an international Group that currently operates in 29 countries, with agents in 50 countries on four continents. Our global workforce of 5,700 shares a commitment to partnering with customers in nearly every industry to provide comprehensive solutions with long-term support. Originally founded in 1892 as a small workshop in Horgen/Zurich, Switzerland, today Stäubli is an international Group headquartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland.

staubli.com

Bronze Sponsor

Solarport

Solarport is the leading UK designer and manufacturer of mounting systems for solar and BESS.

Designed and manufactured in the UK, driven by innovation, quality engineering and customer service, Solarport are the experts in cost-effective mounting systems that are easy to install.

Intelligently designed for ease of installation, to maximise efficiency and to utilise all of their foundation options, Solarport’s solar ground mount systems also accommodate portrait and landscape orientations for all panel sizes.

Throughout every stage of project delivery, a team of in-house experts are on hand to offer support, giving customers practical advice and solutions that save them time and money.

With decades of collective experience designing and installing solar PV projects, Solarport’s talented team uniquely considers every aspect of installation in their mounting system designs, offering warranties of up to 40 years.

For more information, please visit: solarportsystems.com

Supporting Sponsor

Skyfri

Skyfri is a Norwegian-based cleantech startup that enables solar asset owners to maximize performance while keeping operating costs at a minimum. Skyfri’s propriety technology targets and transforms key underperformance areas: identifying energy loss in real-time, breaking the siloed data stream and doing it all autonomously. Through the digital asset management software Skyfri Intelligence, Skyfri automates, digitalize and optimize operations, maintenance, and asset management of solar assets all over the world.

In addition, Skyfri SolarSCADA is the first fully integrated system specifically designed for distributed solar assets. The system is delivered pre-commissioned and ready to install, which decreases the installation time by 80%. SolarSCADA is developed in-house to simplify sensor installation, calibration and maintenance for instruments used for solar system monitoring on site.

Per January 2023, Skyfri is present in eight countries with more than 3GW AUM across Europe, Asia, Africa and Northern America.

Our vision is to make solar power the most accessible, smartest and cleanest energy source through use of technology and innovations.

skyfri.com

Editorial Partners

PV Tech

The PV Tech Power publication explores technology and its impact on downstream PV projects. With a focus on technologies impacting LCOE (Levelised Cost of Energy) of commercial and utility scale solar energy plants world-wide, PV Tech Power addresses all key stakeholder groups that can accelerate the global large scale deployment of solar energy and storage technologies.

pv-tech.org

Solar Power Portal

The Solar Power Portal is the leading renewable energy resource for all UK solar power and feed-in tariff information. Solar power is one of the few renewable energy generating technologies that can help the UK reach its EU binding targets in urban centres.

The Solar Power Portal keeps people both inside and outside the United Kingdom up to date with developments and deployments in the solar industry in the UK. Providing in-depth news, opinions, information on certified products and installers, installations charts, a solar calculator (backed by government figures) and accurate policy updates straight from government, the Solar Power Portal is your one-stop-shop for solar power information in the UK.

solarpowerportal.co.uk

Partners

CIO Review

Published in Fremont, California, CIO Review is one of the leading print magazines in the US. It is the knowledge platform where C-suite executives deliberate on critical market challenges and current technological trends across industries. We are a unique magazine because all of our contributors are senior executives from the industry.

cioreview.com

Climate17

We are recruitment specialists across Clean Energy & Environmental markets. Our team has been recruiting in renewable energy since 2007, and we have an extensive network of professionals within this sector.

Climate17 have a track record of placing positions at all levels throughout the project lifecycle – from Acquisition, through development, consents and construction, to operation and asset management.

We take a partnership approach in working with our clients on hard-to-fill positions where we can bring value, usually engaging on assignments on an exclusive basis; this allows us to dedicate the time and resources necessary to identify the best possible candidates available in the market for their requirements. We can assist in defining and scoping roles, setting informed remuneration packages, creating attractive and compelling job adverts, and effective resourcing plans.

To hear more about how we can help, get in touch with the team at Climate17, and speak with one of our specialist consultants.

climate17.com

Energy Tech Review

Energy Tech Review is a guardian angel in this concern, assisting the service providers and business people to choose from the vast pool of enterprises who have worked in the energy sector to bring positive changes in our environment. Energy Tech Review aggregates the brightest minds, opinions, analyses, the latest technologies, and the most mind-boggling arguments about the critical issues that exist in the energy sector.

energytechreview.com

Energy UK

Energy UK is the trade association for the energy industry with over 100 members - from established FTSE 100 companies right through to new, growing suppliers, generators and service providers across energy, transport, heat and technology.

Our members deliver nearly 80% of the UK’s power generation and over 95% of the energy supply for 28 million UK homes as well as businesses.

The sector invests £13bn annually and delivers nearly £30bn in gross value - on top of the nearly £100bn in economic activity through its supply chain and interaction with other sectors. The energy industry is key to delivering growth and plans to invest £100bn over the course of this decade in new energy sources.

energy-uk.org.uk

Financial Service Review

Financial Service Review is a leading technology magazine that reaches out to over 56,000 print subscribers and over 85,000 digital subscribers. It provides a comprehensive platform for senior-level industry experts, buyers, and decision-makers to share their insights following a unique learn-by-peers approach.

financialservicesreview.com

International Battery & Energy Storage Alliance

The International Battery and Energy Storage Alliance (IBESA) is the first international network of excellence in the field of battery and energy storage. IBESA offers a worldwide network, contacts along the value chain of different business sectors, exclusive high-quality market research know-how as well as complete marketing and public relation packages. The alliance enables an international and practice-oriented transfer of knowledge to foster businesses and markets at the best. The influential network of IBESA is based on many like-minded individual partners that share the same values and overall objectives.

ibesalliance.org

Joint Forces for Solar

Joint Forces for Solar (JF4S) is a global solar alliance of industry stakeholders ranging from multinational corporations to industry associations and local installation companies who partner in the mission to expand the use of solar technologies at the global, regional and local level and establish a vibrant renewable and clean energy industry. Founded in 2009, the JF4S have grown to be the leading global business and knowledge platform and enabler. Partners benefit from comprehensive support to maximize their brand visibility, connect with other stakeholders and further establish solar energy.

jointforces4solar.com