Apple, Facebook, Google, Norsk Hydro, Dutch Railways, and British Telecommunications have all announced long-term contracts to procure green electricity from renewable energy projects in Europe. Corporate power purchase agreements (PPA) today finance 1.2GW of wind capacity in Europe. This session will look at what potential lies in this nascent market and what role industrial players can play in bringing new and additional capacity online.

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Offshore wind has successfully overcome many technical and cost challenges in recent years and grown at an impressive rate. However, investor appetite for this asset class remains mixed; many investors see considerable opportunities and lower risks, but others still shy away from the sector. This session will discuss what is positively and negatively affecting confidence levels, whether the risks are real or perceptual, and what can be done by the sector to further improve confidence. Overall, we will seek to answer the question - is offshore wind power now a mature asset class?

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As the wind power industry moves towards competitiveness with thermal generation, support mechanisms will become less important. This will mean investors face a shift in the mix of risk in wind power investments. How will those risks be allocated? The scope for innovation in risk management will need to broaden, and risk protection providers will have to sharpen their suite of tools to get the work done. This session will review where the state of the art is today, and what the industry can expect for the future.

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DONG Energy’s auction price for the Borssele Wind Farm Sites I and II turned out to be a game changer. In this interactive session you can learn how the Dutch government helped drive down the costs of offshore wind as the co-developer of offshore wind projects. Is this the way forward to an era of booming offshore wind without subsidies? DONG Energy explains how as co-developer a government can successfully take part in a winning business strategy. The transmission systems operator TenneT presents the advantages of constructing five standardised platforms. After these presentations we will invite the audience to take part in a lively debate with the speakers.

Keynote speaker René Moor gives a glimpse of his presentation: "The Borssele 1 and 2 auction price was a giant leap in the development of the industry. Offshore wind turned out to be cheaper than we thought. Now it can have a bigger role in the transition towards sustainable energy supply. This should be the first step towards an era where offshore wind is competitive without subsidies and become one of the major climate neutral sources of electricity."

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This session will follow the discussion of the results of the Borssele tender in The Netherlands. It will provide a brief overview and discussion of industry views on the potential for LCOE reduction onshore and offshore, consider how low LCOE might go in different territories and include a discussion of the context of LCOE when looking at energy markets.

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Replacing Europe’s fossil-fuelled generation assets with renewable energy will require significant and sustained investments for decades to come. Certainty for private investors is crucial to complete the energy transition. However, in recent years abrupt - and in some cases retroactive - changes to support schemes and planning and permitting regimes have caused substantial losses for investors and created uncertainty for wind projects in several European markets. As a result, new wind investments are increasingly concentrated in a smaller number of markets, with Germany accounting for 50% in 2015.

What can be done to protect investors against retroactive changes and restore confidence in the markets that have been marred by political flip-flopping?

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