At ELUK2026, delegates will gain actionable knowledge and strategic insight focused on delivery, investment readiness, and real-world implementation of the UK’s Net Zero ambitions. Key outcomes include:
- Translate policy into execution, understanding how refreshed Net Zero delivery plans, planning reform, and regulatory certainty accelerate private investment and reduce project risk.
- Learn how to unlock capital for large-scale deployment, including blended finance structures, RAB models, PPAs, CfDs, and investment pathways for hydrogen, CCS, nuclear and grid infrastructure.
- Understand grid, planning and infrastructure acceleration, including connection queue reform, fast-tracked NSIPs, and infrastructure prioritisation for data centres and energy-intensive industries.
- Analyse the energy demand surge triggered by AI and data centres, exploring co-location with renewables, SMRs, microgrids and heat reuse for sustainable compute growth.
- Gain clarity on nuclear delivery timelines, from SMRs and AMRs to fusion commercialisation — and how nuclear drives industrial regeneration, energy security, and baseload resilience.
- Explore the role of CCS and industrial clusters, focusing on enabling heavy industry decarbonisation, preserving jobs, and leveraging existing oil & gas infrastructure for CO₂ transport and storage.
- Understand the build-out of a renewable-led grid, analysing storage innovation, interconnectors, and flexibility markets to deliver resilient, affordable decarbonised electricity.
- Identify investable hydrogen deployment cases, including hydrogen for industry, mobility and heat — and how hydrogen integrates with nuclear and CCS to form industrial ecosystems.
- Examine oil & gas transition pathways, focusing on managed decline, skills redeployment and using existing assets to support CCS and hydrogen infrastructure.
- Get a holistic view of integrated energy systems, linking electricity, heat, hydrogen, digital, transport, and housing infrastructure to reduce costs and accelerate Net Zero.
- Access a workforce and skills blueprint, including the National Energy Skills Passport, accelerated retraining, and strategies to build a diverse and inclusive talent pipeline.
- Discover the next wave of breakthrough technologies, including fusion, space-based solar, next-gen storage materials, and frontier innovations shaping the future beyond 2050.
These learning outcomes will equip attendees to accelerate delivery, unlock investment, and lead implementation — transforming Net Zero from ambition into reality.