Northern Ireland Net Zero Exchange

B9 is a leading developer of Power-to-X projects in the UK and Irish markets. It has three sites in the work plan with a total installed electrolyser capacity of 3.45GWe. These will allow offshore wind to be deployed without curtailment, green methanol to be supplied to ferries and large cities to be district heated. 

Representatives 

David Surplus OBE, Managing Director 

Dr John Harrison, Chief Technical Officer

GES Group is an award-winning and industry-leading company that provides power and energy solutions for SMEs and large multinationals across a range of industries in the UK and internationally. The Group has a strong long-standing trading history extending in growth across a significant number of industry sectors in their drive to develop the renewable

Representatives 

David Moore, Group Chief Executive Officer 

Richard Paul, Group Technical & Commercial Officer 

Lagan MEICA deliver innovative design and build MEICA solutions for the water and wastewater industry including deployment of hydrogen and oxygen technologies. 

Representatives 

Neil McKenzie, Director 

Lagan Energy Engineering specialises in full turnkey solutions up to and including 275kV in the renewables sector and other mission critical facilities such as data centres. As the principal contractor on the first-of-its-kind installation of a hydrogen electrolyser on the island of Ireland from wind generation, they pride themselves as a front runner contributing towards the decarbonisation of the electrical grid infrastructure. 

Representatives 

Emmet Lagan, Director 

Stephen Lagan, Director 

Mannok Build is a leading manufacturer of a diverse range of premium building materials including bulk and bagged cement, concrete roof tiles, high performance PIR and EPS insulation, aircrete thermal blocks and bespoke designed precast concrete stairs and floors. 

With a proud 50-year heritage, the company has grown into one of the most successful manufacturers of building solutions in the UK and Ireland, earning a reputation for developing industry-leading sustainable solutions. 

Representatives 

Kevin Lunney, Chief Operations Officer 

Paul Monaghan, Group Head of Sustainability 

NovoGen provides a range of specialist capabilities and services including but not limited to hydrogen refuelling systems, medical oxygen generation systems, specialist electrical services on high voltage systems and energy optimisation. 

Representatives 

Karl Conlon, Technical Director 

Nuada is a pure-play carbon capture company poised to decarbonise heavy industries through its next-generation point-source capture technology. The company builds energy-efficient filtration machines that capture CO2 from industrial off-gases, empowering emitters in hard-to-abate sectors to reduce their carbon footprint with minimum impact on their bottom line. 

Representatives 

Jose Casaban, Co-CEO 

Conor Hamill, Co-CEO 

Photonic Measurements is a water quality instrumentation manufacturer who design, build and assemble measurement and monitoring solutions for a range of applications. Their real-time IOT-enables aeration and dosing control to optimize energy consumption. Photonics Measurements range of water quality solutions ensure efficiency, reducing electricity usage in wastewater, drinking water and environmental monitoring. 

Representative 

Davy Simms, Head of Sales 

Purapipe’s revolutionary pipeline technology is a sophisticated combination of robustly tested technologies, transferred out of static manufacturing factories onto mobile pipeline production platforms, operating on construction sites across both onshore and offshore locations. 

Representative 

Dr Edward Archer, Senior Business Consultant 

The Electric Storage Company has built the PARIS software platform (providing predictability) to optimise battery storage (providing flexibility) to maximise savings and income against energy market opportunities. PARIS is offered to front of meter and behind the meter customers and on a white label basis. 

Representative 

Eddie McGoldrick, Chair 

A £100m Belfast Region City Deal project led by Queen’s University Belfast, the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre is a collaborative, innovative powerhouse of advanced manufacturing set to elevate our region globally. 

It is supporting economic growth and prosperity in Northern Ireland by creating high quality jobs and increasing inward investment through high value manufacturing innovation clusters. 

Representative

Sam Turner, Chief Executive Officer

Arup is a global sustainable development consultancy with 18,000 designers, advisors and experts working across 140 countries. With a deep understanding of Northern Ireland, Arup works in partnership to support sustainable development, collaborating to create a more resilient future for the region.

Representatives 

Pete Gray, Associate Director 

Melanie Thrush, Principal Engineer / Geothermal Consultant 

Rob Duffin, Director 

CASE is an industry-led sustainable energy research centre based in Northern Ireland. CASE is a cross-institution organisation with Ulster University and Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute. Its work helps to position Northern Ireland at the forefront of the global sustainable energy market by integrating leading research into the local industrial base for the benefit of the business community and the wider economy. 

Representative 

Martin Doherty, Centre Director 

David Rooney, Professor  

Trevor Haslett CBE, Chair  

The Department for the Economy is a government department in the Northern Ireland Executive and its responsible for wider economic policy including specific areas like energy, tourism and telecoms.

Representative 

Jimmy Graham, Director for Business, Gas, Minerals and Renewable Electricity 

NIE Networks is the owner of the electricity transmission and distribution networks in Northern Ireland, transporting electricity to 910,000 customers including homes, businesses and farms. Its role is to maintain and extend the electricity infrastructure across Northern Ireland, connect customers to the network and ensure that our equipment is safe and reliable.

Representatives 

Derek Hynes, Managing Director  

Roger Henderson, Network Asset and Investment Director 

Edel Creery, Head of Communications and Stakeholder Engagement  

Queen’s University Belfast is a powerhouse of innovation and ranks as the highest performing UK University for commercialisation of research. The university's research is founded on excellence, integrity and partnership. The highly inter and cross-disciplinary research portfolios have recognised international strengths in cancer, chronic illness, epidemiology, environmental sustainability, healthcare technologies, infection biology, ophthalmology, population health and respiratory disease.

Representative 

David Rooney, Professor

The Strategic Investment Board helps government with investment planning and delivery. Areas of key responsibility include; preparing the Investment Strategy for Northern Ireland, helping the public sector develop and deliver major programmes and projects, and helping to champion reform.

Representative

John Green, Strategic Advisor

Ulster University has a national and international reputation for excellence, innovation and research. The university works with hundreds of businesses annually in the delivery of effective innovative and research-based solutions. The School of Engineering specialises in a broad multi-disciplinary approach to engineering and its application in solving real-world industry-related problems.

Representative

Dr Edward Archer, Senior Lecturer and MSc Course Director in Composite and Polymers