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Todays Event

• What is Generate?How Generate works
• Specialist Mentoring
• Discussion with Generate Team
• Register Interest and Networking

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What is Generate?

• Generate is a business support programme that
  offers businesses in the Lisburn City, Belfast
  City and Castlereagh Borough Council areas access
  to specialist industry support to avail of supply
  chain opportunities in the emerging markets for
  wind, marine, bio-energy, smart-grid and energy
  storage.

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What is Generate?

• The programme will help to generate new sales,
  new markets, new contracts and sustained business
  growth through
• Participation in the evolving and emerging
  renewable energy sectors
• The identification of supply chain opportunities
  and strategic collaborations
• Research and Development support

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What is Generate?

• Scale of opportunity within sectors
• Wind offshore - 525 million (NI) 100 billion
  (UK)
• Bio-energy - 100 billion (UK)
• Wave and Tidal - 8 billion per year by 2030 (UK)
• Smart- Grid and - 1 billion (NI) 56 billion
  (UK)
• Energy Storage

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What is Generate?

• Wind offshore - 525 million (NI) 100 billion
  (UK)
• How did we arrive at this figure?

Through the Invest NI Collaborative Network
Programme (Phase 1) a Scoping Report
highlighted...... Potential Offshore Wind of
market 525 million likely to be attracted to NI
capability and location.....
.....with a potential skills spend of 28
million available to NI across engineering and
skills training in the offshore wind and OG
sectors
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What is Generate?

• Wind offshore - 525 million (NI) 100 billion
  (UK)
• How did we enter this market?

Siemens had 80 staff in Belfast...Burke Shipping
operated with 22 full-time and 12 part-time staff
for Siemens worth approx.....2 million....
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What is Generate?
Siemens asked Burke Shipping to supply more
technically qualified people... Currently working
with Department of Employment and Learning to
access funding and build capacity in Mechanical,
Electrical, Hydraulic and Composites engineering
to up-skill operatives.... This will assist
Siemens in reducing operating costs for quayside
operations and Burke Shipping are now being asked
to supply services in Germany...
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Who is eligible?

• It is anticipated that businesses from the
  following sectors will be suitable for Generate,
  however this list is not exhaustive and companies
  will be assessed on an individual basis
• Construction
• Engineering and Manufacturing
• Transport and Logistics
• Environmental Assessment and Consultancy
• ICT
• Financial and Legal

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Who is eligible?

• Regardless of what sector you are in, if you feel
  your company has the potential to enter the
  Renewable Industry Supply Chain, then simply
  register your interest today, talk to the
  Generate Team to confirm suitability for the
  programme and discuss potential projects
• The programme is limited to 60 small to medium
  businesses within the following Council areas
• Lisburn City Council (28)
• Belfast City Council (28)
• Castlereagh Borough Council (4)

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How Generate Works
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How Generate Works

• Specialist one-to-one mentoring to help your
  business identify project opportunities or
  develop existing projects in the renewable
  industry

The Generate Team
Elias Dencker has over 20 years practical project
engineering and technological risk management
experience in the UK including over 5 years in UK
offshore wind and associated supply chain. Most
recently, Elias was a UK offshore wind project
manager for DONG Energy
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Generate Team
Paul provides specialist services to the marine
energy sector undertaking work for marine energy
site and technology developers through research,
design development of marine energy technology
for the deployment of demonstration and
commercial scale arrays.
CASE is an industry led sustainable energy
research centre providing access to research
funding for industrial partners in Energy and
Demand Side Management . Sam is BREEAM Assessor
and accredited trainer, with a clear working
knowledge of the practical application of
sustainability at all operational levels.
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Generate Team
Alastair has pioneered biomass in the UK
providing the conceptual design and specification
for Northern Irelands first steam biomass plant
and is currently working on the first of a series
of new Biomass/EFW power stations in Northern
Ireland incorporating innovative zero liquid
effluent technologies.  
Sally is an active member of the offshore
operations community and works with Development
Agencies to improve knowledge of offshore wind
supply chain opportunities and to help to improve
the potential for local communities to provide
services in the operational phase.
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Generate Team
Chris works closely with Invest NI Technology
Executives and the Department of Employment and
Learning to support businesses with the capacity
to contribute to renewable energy supply chain
delivering a coordinated solution to
organizational growth across a wide range of
engineering and support disciplines.
James provides data and a strategic analysis of
supply chain opportunities for manufacturing
sectors providing technical support and guidance
to local SMEs in the development of their
products and services through innovative
solutions to support organizational growth.  
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Generate Team
Rachel implements marketing, promotion and
recruitment strategies for innovation programmes
working with industry to develop business
concepts and provides strategic assistance
through a range of programmes such as Knowledge
Transfer Partnership, Innovation Vouchers,
Connected, InnovateUs and Fusion.
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How Generate Works

• Generate Team will help your business identify
  project opportunities or develop existing
  projects in the renewable industry by
• Developing contacts with potential customers
• Taking part in key networking opportunities to
  showcase your business to local and international
  renewable energy companies
• Participation on best practice and Meet the
  Buyer events

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How Generate Works

Knowledge Transfer Events Bio-energy Market
Opportunities September 11 2014, Belfast
Assured Asset Energy Ltd (AAE) provides
project finance for farmers and landowners for
Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plants. Specialising in
the Renewable Energy sector, Assured Asset Energy
Ltd (AAE), recently launched a 27 million fund
in N Ireland.
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How Generate Works

Knowledge Transfer Events Wave and Tidal
Opportunities October 14 2014, Bristol Resolving
the challenges associated with offshore
electrical infrastructure for tidal arrays is
widely considered to be a priority area of
development for the sector coupled with the
challenges surrounding a 20 year component life,
is the remote conditioning monitoring of systems
and components required to last that long.
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How to become involved?

• Register your interest with the Generate Team
  today
• Cost 120.00 including VAT
• Limited places available!
• Contact Details
• Email info_at_generateni.com
• Website www.generateni.com
• Twitter _at_generateni