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ALL-ENERGY 2015 – Getting ready to welcome you! The plans are well advanced; hundreds of exhibitors from home and overseas will be there; the conference programme with over 400 speakers is rapidly taking shape; and it’s all-systems-go for an exciting Giant Networking Evening. All the component parts of All-Energy 2015, the UK’s largest renewable and sustainable energy exhibition and conference, are in place! the industry such as finance and funding and grid access. Importantly to readers of Farming Express is that there will (as ever) be a session on ‘Renewables for the Farming Community’ (Wednesday 6 May, 16:00-17:30), organised in association with the NFUS Renewable Development initiative, which is facilitated by Smiths Gore and overseen by NFU Scotland with support from the Scottish Government through its Scottish Rural Development Programme (SRDP) funding. The programme will be online by early March. That’s not where relevant sessions end – Local Energy Economies is being organised by Community Energy Scotland; and the ‘quick The 15th show in the annual series will fire community energy seminar theatre’ be held Wednesday 6 - Thursday 7 May will see a host of presentations taking in its new home, the SECC in Glasgow, place, many of which will be relevant to having moved from Aberdeen where it visiting farmers (also 6 May). Thursday had a great farming following. Within 7 May sees a community energy session the exhibition and conference All-Energy in the main conference; and additionally covers all forms of renewable energy, and on both days there are sessions with embraces other key component parts of appeal covering onshore wind; onsite renewables, renewable heat, solar, all forms of bioenergy - the list is almost endless. These topics are reflected in the exhibition where visitors can follow subject-specific trails such as onshore wind; renewable heat; solar; bioenergy ....... Farmers can expect a highly rewarding time at the show meeting experts face-to-face, comparing note 