Conference Reception
Sponsored by npower renewables
When: Tuesday 9 October 2007
Where: Glasgow Science Centre
Over 300 delegates and exhibitors attended this networking reception sponsored by npower renewable. Glasgow Science Centre’s Science Mall provided a thrilling setting where guests interacted with hundreds of science and technology exhibits, marveled at the stars during the planetarium showings, and enjoyed drinks and food courtesy of npower renewables.

BWEA Annual Gala Dinner & Awards
Sponsored by E.ON
When: Wednesday 10 October 2007
Where: Crowne Plaza Hotel
Over 600 people attended BWEA’s annual Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony, sponsored by E.ON. BWEA invited comedienne Nina Conti, who recently wowed the crowds at the Edinburgh Festival, to entertain the guests, after which they danced the night away at a ceilidh.

Award winners:

Developers' Developer of the Year Award:
Peter Crone, Farm Energy
Voted on by the membership, the ever popular Developers' Developer award was won this year by Peter Crone. Peter has been strong positive influence on both BWEA and the wind industry for almost 20 years having started Farm Energy in 1988 as a renewable energy manufacturing and service company. Farm Energy was involved in many of the early wind farm developments in England and Wales. In the mid-90s Peter worked first for New World Power, then Zond and finally Enron, developing wind power in a number of world markets including Ireland, Spain and China. He also served on the board of BWEA. He left Enron in 1997 to rebrand Farm Energy as a wind power developer. As well as developing onshore projects throughout the UK, in 1999 he began developing a gigawatt scale offshore project in the Thames Estuary that later became known as London Array. More recently Peter unveiled Farm Energy's latest development, a proposal for a 1,500MW offshore wind farm in the Bristol Channel called Atlantic Array. Not many have pushed for and achieved so much in this industry, making Peter worthy winner of BWEA's 'Developers Developer' award 2007.

Outstanding Contribution 2007:
Chris Veal, Airtricity
At the Gala Dinner the 'Outstanding Contribution to BWEA' award went to Chris Veal of Airtricity. Over the past 15 months Chris has been instrumental in pulling together an Association position on future rounds for offshore wind and delivering this message to both Government and the Crown Estate. As chair of BWEA's 'Future Offshore' working group he also helped facilitate an informed debate around the EU 2020 renewable energy target and the role of the UK's offshore wind industry within this. By chairing a members workshop on these opportunities, and presenting the outcomes to delegates at BWEA's fifth annual offshore wind conference, Chris provided the opportunity for the wider membership to engage in this discussion at an early stage. His work has since led to the Association adopting a UK offshore wind delivery target of 20GW's by 2020.

BWEA Sailing Regatta:
EMU Ltd

Annual BWEA Sailing Regatta
12-13 September 2007

After the success of the BWEA Sailing Regattas over the last 5 years, the 2007 event was a sell-out. Almost all of the SunSail fleet of boats were booked for our regatta, in which 56 boats took part.

The three winning teams are shown below, and an extra special congratulations goes to EMU Ltd, who were overall winners.

1st place - EMU Ltd, skippered by Huw Powell

2nd place - The Carbon Trust, skippered by Harry Morrison

3rd place - ScottishPower Renewables, Nick Willis

View complete results list.

The event was supported and organised by npower renewables and the evening entertainment was provided by npower renewables and ABPmer.