International Renewable Energy Storage Conference and Exhibition (IRES) 2012

Because of the huge success EUROSOLAR and the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) are continuing the IRES series in 2012. IRES 2011 attracted attendance from more than 40 countries with 600 attendees and repeated the success of the previous year.

The event is an international gathering of all relevant stakeholders: From the energy storage business, both the renewable and conventional energy business, grid operators and utilities, players from the hybrid and electric vehicle sector, the building industry, finance, R&D and politics.

The conference programme will among others address small scale/distributed storage solutions like batteries as well as bulk storage solutions like hydrogen/Power-to-Gas and the role storage solutions play within the smart grid.

Further highlights of this year´s event will also be the interaction of energy networks for power, gas and heat and cross-sectoral use of energy storage systems.

Conference topics:

• Storage solutions for electricity, heat and mobility (electrochemical, electrostatic, electromechanical, electrodynamic, chemical, thermal and thermochemical)

• The legal, political, social, national economic and market economic aspects of integrating energy storage into the energy supply system

• The need for storage capacity scenarios and assessment studies for all applications and energy sectors

• Strategies for systems with a high share of Renewable Energy and 100% Renewable Energy systems – focus on the use of storage

• Storage systems in stationary applications as well as vehicle to grid solutions and their integration into the power grid

• Hybrid and combined Renewable Energy power plants/virtual power plants and smart grid concepts with Renewable Energy

• Self consumption of photovoltaic energy, off-grid and micro-grid systems

• Heat storage for buildings and industrial applications

• Compact therma