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Building a renewable future in Asia Pacific
Sonya Kalnin, Watson Farley & Williams, looks at Asia Pacific’s transition from building capacity to building systems.
The heat transition
Raymond C. Decorvet, Global Business Development, Heat Pumps, Everllence, explains mega heat pumps for grid balancing and district heating.
Fail to prepare; prepare to fail
Megan Barrett, Executive Director, Engineering Tomorrow, rings the alarm on tomorrow’s energy labour shortage and argues why it should be addressed at earlier levels of education.
From demonstrators to serial production: Industrialising floating wind foundations
Laurent Verdier, Chief Business Development Officer, BW Ideol, outlines how recent production line developments signal to the floating offshore wind industry that a sustainable supply chain is getting ready to serve a multi-gigawatt pipeline.
Strengthening solar energy with smarter cybersecurity
As solar becomes increasingly recognised by EU institutions as critical grid infrastructure, its importance to Europe’s energy security is coming into sharper focus. Christelle Barnes, General Manager at SolarEdge UK, addresses how photovoltaic installers, developers, EPCs, and system owners can strengthen cybersecurity and better protect both their assets and the wider grid.
The global shift to ultra-large modules
Arif Aga, Director, SgurrEnergy, questions whether 600 – 700 Wp designs are compromising mechanical reliability in the solar photovoltaics industry.
The maintenance bias in operations and maintenance
Kieran Hill-Cousins, Monitoring and Performance Manager, Ethical Power, places a spotlight on the importance of how renewable energy sites are operated, and emphasises how availability should be used as a metric for performance.
Beyond dry docking: The future of asset integrity in floating offshore energy
Danny Constantins, Executive Chairman, EM&I, Malta, explores how innovation, robotics, and continuous maintenance are reshaping offshore production in Asia Pacific and beyond.
Understanding the corrosion challenge
Robert Cole, Corrocoat, discusses extending asset life in Energy from Waste facilities through advanced corrosion protection.
