🗓️ Tuesday 11 November 2025
🕘 9:00am – 5:00pm
📍 COSLA, Verity House, 19 Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh EH12 5BH

Join us this November in Edinburgh for a landmark conference focused entirely on the future of solar and storage in Scotland. From global insights to local action, this event brings together industry leaders, policymakers, and innovators to explore the role of solar in building a cleaner, more secure energy future for Scotland.

What to Expect:

∙Expert panels on energy security, storage, and investment

∙Success stories from Scottish solar pioneers

∙Insight from leading European and global solar bodies

∙Practical discussions on policy, grid, and economic opportunity

∙Networking with developers, suppliers, investors, and stakeholders

Who Should Attend:

This event is designed for solar and renewable energy professionals, energy investors and developers, local and national policymakers, grid and infrastructure experts, and community energy leaders. It will also be highly relevant to those working in skills, education, and workforce development, all playing a vital role in building Scotland’s solar future.

What topics to expect:

Session 1:

Looking at the potential for solar and battery storage in Scotland, this session will set out the industry’s policy asks ahead of the 2026 election, and places these within a wider European and global context.

Participants:

∙Solar Energy Scotland

∙Global Solar Council

∙SolarPower Europe

Session 2:

Exploring a wide range of approaches to the design and delivery of solar and storage schemes, this session provides an opportunity to hear from those delivering projects at every level, including community, municipal, commercial and ground mounted, or utility scale, schemes.

Participants:

∙Stirling Council

∙Edinburgh Council

Session 3:

Grid access, connection processes, capacity limits and affordability are just some of the subjects that will be discussed in this session – relevant to rooftop and utility scale schemes alike.

Participants:

∙NESO

∙SSEN

∙SPEN

∙Roadnight Taylor

Session 4:

The benefits of solar and battery storage extend beyond lower bills and greener power. This session will consider a range of other benefits, including economic growth, training and employment, supply chain opportunities, biodiversity improvements and energy security, while also addressing common misconceptions.

Participants:

∙Biggar Economics

∙Optimat

∙Orbit Communications

Tickets and more information coming soon.