This year SBS annual conference will highlight the important role of SMEs in renewables. We invite you to join us for this important day and register here.
Small Business, Big Energy:
Empowering SMEs in Renewables
20 November 2025
ACE Events, Brussels
Av. d’Auderghem 22, 1040 Bruxelles
Europe’s energy transition is at a critical juncture, with reliance on imported gas threatening competitiveness and highlighting the urgent need for rapid decarbonisation. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are vital to this shift, driving innovation in manufacturing, installation, and software across the renewable energy sector.
However, the SME voice remains limited in standardisation. To address this, SBS has published a new study. The study outlines SME involvement across the renewable energy value chain—solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, ocean energy, hydrogen, and biofuels—and pinpoints where their contribution to standardisation is most needed.
This conference will use the report’s findings as a foundation to discuss policy implications and develop standardisation strategies that will help SMEs maximise their influence across the sector. Keynote speakers will discuss with the audience practical strategies to help SMEs ride the renewable energy wave and strengthen their engagement in standardisation, foster collaboration across stakeholders, and identify concrete steps to empower SMEs to innovate, scale, and shape Europe’s renewable energy transition.
AGENDA
12:30 pm – Networking Lunch – Limited places available
13:30 pm – Registration / welcome coffee
2 – 2:20 pm – KEYNOTE
2:20 – 3:15 pm – PANEL 1 | Empowering SMEs in the Renewable Energy Sector
3:15 – 3:45 pm – COFFEE BREAK
3:45 – 4:40 pm – PANEL 2 | Building Europe’s renewable and energy-efficient future
4:40 – 5 pm – CLOSING REMARKS
