Wednesday 26th June 2013, South of England Showground, Ardingly, Sussex

The Feed-in Tariff (FiT) and the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) schemes allow farmers and other landowners who invest in renewable projects to claim potentially attractive payments for the electricity and heat that they generate.

However, for those with busy work schedules, it can be very difficult to commit the necessary time to assess the various opportunities, decide on the best technologies to utilise and identify the most suitable suppliers to work with.

The Renewable Energy Exchange (REX) helps to resolve this difficulty by creating an independent market-place that enables interested landowners to have a series of time-efficient pre-arranged appointments with potential suppliers. Participants can then review their options and make well-informed decisions and so take full advantage of the current incentives from the FiT and RHI schemes.

This event, one of a series of networking events held across the UK, provides a time-efficient opportunity for landowners to have pre-arranged meetings with selected technology providers and services firms, in order to evaluate options and short-list prospective suppliers.

There will be a wide range of companies available for meetings to discuss the viability and practicalities of potential renewable projects, including: wind power, solar pv, hydropower, anaerobic digestion, biomass heating, heat pumps (both ground source and air source) and solar thermal.

Participation is free for those looking to invest in renewable projects on their own land. On the run-up to the event all registered participants are invited to go-online to select which companies they would like to meet with and so create themselves a networking programme consisting of pre-arranged meetings and roundtable discussion groups.

Individual appointments and roundtable discussion group sessions are scheduled to take place between 09:30 and 16:30 on the day of the event. However, the format of the event is designed to be flexible to individual needs. So for those who purely wish to meet with two or three companies, or who are travelling from afar and can only be there for part of the day, can tailor their networking programme accordingly.

If you are looking to invest in a renewable project on your own land and are interested in meeting with selected technology suppliers and advisory firms, please apply for your free place here.

If you represent a renewable technology supplier, land agent or other advisory firm and are potentially interested in hosting meetings with those looking to invest in renewable projects, please register your interest, so that we can then send you details of the various participation options.

You can download more details of all the upcoming regional REX events, together with an overview of some of the renewable technologies that farmers are now investing in.