LEMA Summit October 2024

The Local Energy Markets Alliance (LEMA) is a pioneering business-led initiative to develop a commercially viable market for consumer-facing Local Energy Systems (LES).

The energy transition is placing an increasingly complex burden on the grid leading to growing congestion and politically unacceptable connection queues. LES trials have demonstrated the technical ability to mitigate this congestion. What is needed now are the market structures to deliver commercially viable LES at scale. This initiative will enable our industry to step up to collectively ‘simplify the energy burden and unlock commercial growth’. It is about us taking action now.

On the 1st and 2nd October 2024, we held our two-day event at Leeds Castle in Kent. This was an opportunity to help set the agenda and to be seen as a leader in this vital and emerging field. The LEMA Summit 2024 invited selected guests to:

• Understand our latest thinking on District Self Balancing, the Dynamic Load Averaging Contract and how it can mitigate connection queues

• Debate what is possible in terms of local energy sharing to maximise self-consumption

• Explore just what ‘consumer first’ means in practice and how to deliver a compelling consumer proposition

• See how we intend transferring the knowledge we generate to streamline and accelerate this market

• Plus: pragmatic financing options, overcoming place-based barriers, European opportunities, experiences and solutions and more

• Above all, the opportunity to discuss these matters with senior decision makers from your own and other sectors in a private and relaxing environment

Click the link below to see our photo gallery.

LEMA Summit photo gallery

Fast-tracking Local Grid Connection