Madrid | Power & Renewables Briefing 2025

3:00pm

Registration and refreshments

3:30pm

Welcome and opening presentation

European Power: the pace, opportunities and challenges of transition

• Rising supply meets flat demand
• Power prices fundamentals: old habits die hard…
• Opportunities for merchant renewables – will wholesale prices be enough?
• Q&A

3:45pm

Second presentation

Decarbonising European power: the challenges of unprecedented change

While political commitment to transition endures in Europe, delivery is being tested by significant headwinds. What key challenges must successful investors adjust to?

• Electrification is lagging targets – can electric vehicles, decarbonised heat, green hydrogen and data centres deliver their promise to invigorate markets?
• How deeply will geopolitical uncertainty impact energy markets, supply chains and the policy landscape?
• What will the future market landscape look like, how will it be formed and what are the wildcards?
• Q&A

4:00pm

Networking break

4:25pm

Third presentation

Energy storage: Europe’s gigawatt-scale revolution

Exploring the drivers for storage in Iberia and across Europe, the where, why and how of large-scale adoption – with spotlights on:

• Standalone utility scale storage: arbitrage economics, capacity market prospects, and opportunities ancillary services
• Hybridized storage: the economics of storage alongside existing PV, viability with wind generators, and other hybrid options
• Q&A

4:40pm

Fourth presentation

The role of PPAs in renewables project success?

Analysis of the defining trends in the Iberian (and wider European) PPA market

• Defining fair value: what bearing do power prices, capture rates and technology costs have on the PPA market?
• How are PPAs evolving in support of hybrid assets?
• Data Centre demand as a driver of PPA volumes

4:55pm

Fifth presentation

The changing use case for energy price projections: in complex, fast-changing markets, what do you need to know?

5:10pm

Conversation with our analysts

5:40pm

Closing remarks and networking reception

7:00pm

Drinks reception

9:00pm

End of event