Net-Zero for Greater Manchester – challenges and innovation opportunities

Join us on 13th July as we bring together innovators & end users to discuss key energy challenges & how innovation can help achieve net-zero

This event is a must-attend for energy innovators, GM organisations looking to decarbonise their buildings and those involved in the city-region’s net zero transition.

The Greater Manchester (GM) city-region faces huge challenges in meeting its ambitious 2038 carbon neutral target. The Energy Innovation Agency works with innovative businesses connecting innovative products and services with end-users, to scale the most promising energy innovations.

Join us on the 13th of July to hear from the Agency team, organisations facing huge decarbonisation challenges, and innovators with some brilliant new solutions and initiatives that will help the city region achieve its goals.

Are you an energy innovator? Pitch your solution to the Agency team and key stakeholders on the day!

Are you a GM business looking for net-zero support? Join us to hear about how you can access a range of smart and effective low-carbon energy solutions for your business to help you reduce energy costs, optimise your energy, and even become more competitive.

Find out more about how the Agency is able to support innovators, and how it is leveraging public funding to increase the scale and pace of low-carbon projects for end-users in the non-domestic building sector in GM.

Agenda:

09:30-10:00 – arrival & networking

10:00 – 10:20 – welcome & introduction to the Energy Innovation Agency

10:20 – 11:10 – Panel 1: GM’s Energy Challenges

11:10 – 11:25 – coffee break

11:25 – 12:15 – Panel 2: Carbon Neutral GM & The Green Skills Gap

12:15 – 13:15 – lunch

13:15 – 13:40 – Innovate GM & The Built Environment Demonstrator Funding

13:40 – 13:50 – Demonstrator Funding – how to get involved

13:50 – 14:00 – closing remarks

14:00 – 14:30 – networking

The Energy Innovation Agency is a unique organisation, created to help the GM city-region transition to a low-carbon economy by enabling energy innovators to scale and grow their businesses. Supported by eight partners from the public and private sectors, we offer a range of diverse services to businesses to help them develop, deploy, and deliver their innovative products and services here in GM; innovations which can help overcome the energy challenges that many GM businesses face and help them not only with their net-zero journey but also to reduce energy costs.