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Northern Ireland
Energy Forum 2025

24th Annual Energy Forum

Wednesday 12 November 2025 • Titanic Belfast


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Northern Ireland Energy Forum 2025

The Northern Ireland Energy Forum, now in its 24th year, is the longest established annual conference for Northern Ireland’s energy sector and is a not-to-be-missed event for anyone with an interest in the local energy industry. The 2025 Forum will once again bring together all the key players, from Northern Ireland and further afield, to focus on the most important aspects of energy policy and the latest developments across the sector. It provides a unique opportunity for all those operating within the sector to come together for networking and discussion.


Key features of the 2025 Forum include:

  • In-depth examination of key policy issues
  • Address from the Minister for the Economy
  • Update from the energy regulator
  • Overview of Northern Ireland’s major energy projects
  • Attended by all the key players in the Northern Ireland energy sector
  • Major networking opportunities

Where

Titanic Belfast

When

Wednesday 12th
November

2025 themes

  • Decarbonising the Northern Ireland economy
  • Regulatory outlook for the energy sector
  • Energy security in a fractured world
  • The future of the electricity grid
  • Heat networks as part of a just transition to net zero
  • Developing a biomethane sector in Northern Ireland
  • Meeting the need for long term energy storage
  • Accelerating the development of renewable energy sources
  • Developing a hydrogen economy

Event Speakers

Speakers confirmed so far include:

Speaker 1

Caoimhe Archibald MLA 

Minister for the Economy

Speaker 1

Richard Rodgers 

Department for the Economy

Speaker 1

John French

Utility Regulator

Speaker 1

Roger Henderson

NIE Networks

Speaker 1

William Orbinson KC

Speaker 1

Anna Rita Bennato

CERRE affiliate

Speaker 1

Niall Martindale

firmus energy networks

Speaker 1

Tamasin Fraser

Omnipower Renewables

Speaker 1

Alan Campbell

SONI

Speaker 1

Sara Lynch

Queen's University Belfast

Speaker 1

Andrew Ryan

TLT Solicitors

Speaker 1

Paddy Larkin

Mutual Energy

Speaker 1

Keith Bell

UK Energy Research Centre

Speaker 1

Declan Billington

Heron Decarb Solutions

Speaker 1

Mark McGranaghan

Smart Grid Ireland

Speaker 1

Edel Creery

NIE Networks

Programme

Registration & morning coffee

Chair’s welcome and introduction

Edel Creery, Director of Customer & Market Services
NIE Networks

MINISTERIAL ADDRESS

The path to net zero: secure, affordable, clean

Caoimhe Archibald MLA
Minister for the Economy

Regulatory outlook

Protecting Consumers on the way to Net Zero

John French, Chief Executive
Utility Regulator

PANEL DISCUSSION: ENERGY LEADERS’ FORUM

Alan Campbell, Chief Executive, SONI

Roger Henderson, Network Assets & Investment Director, NIE Networks

Niall Martindale, CEO, firmus energy networks

Senior representitive, SSE

Morning coffee / networking break

Building blocks of the energy transition I
Planning and
environment

Planning, environment and delivering energy projects: The pressure is on

Andrew Ryan, Partner
TLT Solicitors

Storage

Batteries in wind-dominated areas of network: solution or problem? A Scottish case study

Keith Bell, University of Strathclyde and co-Director
UK Energy Research Centre

Grid

Future electricity grid: Shaping our electricity future

Senior representative
EirGrid

Flexibility

Flexibility in the energy sector

Anna Rita Bennato, Loughborough Business School and Report Author
CERRE

Green hydrogen

Green hydrogen and the energy transition

Paddy Larkin, Chief Executive Officer
Mutual Energy

Questions & answers / Panel discussion

Networking lunch

Building blocks of the energy transition II
Geothermal

Delivering a geothermal energy project

Sara Lynch, Head of Sustainability
Queen’s University Belfast

Heat networks

The role of heat networks in decarbonising the heat sector

Declan Billington, CEO
Heron Decarb Solutions

Electricity grid

Deploying of a highly decarbonised energy grid on the island of Ireland by 2030

Mark McGranaghan, Chair
Smart Grid Ireland

Questions & answers / Panel discussion

PANEL DISCUSSION: SHAPING NORTHERN IRELAND’S FUTURE ENERGY LANDSCAPE

Tamasin Fraser, Founder and Managing Director, Omnipower Renewables

William Orbinson KC

Richard Rodgers, Deputy Secretary, Head of Energy, Department for the Economy

Chairman’s summary and conference close

Sponsorship & Exhibition opportunities

There are a limited number of opportunities for interested organisations to partner with the 2025 Northern Ireland Energy Forum. This is an excellent way for organisations to showcase their expertise and raise their profile with a key audience of senior policy and decision makers from across Northern Ireland’s energy sector. For further information on how your organisation can benefit, contact Olivia Ross on 028 9261 9933 or email olivia.ross@agendaNi.com

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Delegate rate
£345

+ VAT

Event Venue

Event venue location info and gallery

Titanic Belfast

1 Olympic Way
Queen’s Road
Titanic Quarter
Belfast
Northern Ireland
BT3 9EP

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