The Pilots Are Over
Europe’s electric mine has left the test site. What remains is the grid, the mill, the money, and the liability. Two days. One room. The people converting Europe’s mines to electricity, in the heart of its electrified mining region.
LULEÅ, SWEDEN · 18–19 MAY
250+
Attendees
100+
Exhibition
40+
Speakers
2 Days
Networking
Europe's independent, operator-led summit for the production era of mine electrification.
The trials are done. The prototypes are parked. Europe’s mining industry is now converting active brownfield and greenfield sites into fully electrified operations and discovering that the hardest problems were never in the vehicle.
EMES 2027 convenes the people doing the conversion for two days in Luleå, Sweden, headquarters of LKAB and home of the HYBRIT fossil-free steel initiative: the epicentre of Europe’s decarbonized mining sector. One room. Every session. No sales decks. There are no parallel streams splitting your attention, and no sanitized equipment roadmaps. Speakers are operators, utilities, underwriters, and auditors presenting field data including what failed. Sessions cover mixed-fleet dual-fuel logistics, brownouts on rural 20kV feeds, and the bankability of alternative OEM supply chains.
Every session is anchored to a deadline that has already arrived. The EU Battery Passport became mandatory in February 2027. CRMA Strategic Project permitting is moving. NIS2 obligations are live across industrial grid systems. Post-2030 ETS carbon costs are already entering every electrification business case. This is not a summit about regulations coming. It is a summit for the first year they bite.
Key Event Themes
- The 25–36% Problem: Electrifying Comminution — HPGR vs. SAG Economics Under Volatile Power Pricing
- The 4-Year Wait: Megawatt Connections, Weak-Feed Stability & BESS Buffering on Rural Networks
- Depot or the Face? Underground Charging Architecture & the Ventilation Trade-Off
- Who Will Finance This? BaaS, Fleet Leasing & the Bankability Gap for Alternative OEM Supply Chains
- Which Load Dies First? Sequencing Brownfield Electrification Without Stopping Production
- Passport Live: The First Post-Deadline Battery Passport, CRMA & NIS2 Compliance Clinic
- Duty Cycle Reality: Fleet Field Data & the Powertrain Bake-Off — Battery vs. Hybrid vs. Hydrogen
- What’s a Dead Pack Worth? Second-Life BESS Valuation, Data Ownership & the 2031 Recycled-Content Clock
- The HV Skills Cliff: Certification Pathways, Parts Logistics & Converting a Diesel Workforce
- The Liability Endgame: Insurers, Auditors & Operators Settle Underground Battery Fire Risk
Who will you meet?
Connect with the people responsible for turning electrification strategy into operational reality.
- C-Suite & Operational VPs: CTOs, VPs of Innovation, VPs of Operational Excellence from Europe’s leading extraction groups
- Subterranean & Pit Operations: Underground Mine Managers, General Managers, Open-Pit Directors, and HSE Directors
- Fixed Assets & Processing: Plant Managers, Comminution Engineers, and Head Dewatering Engineers — optimizing energy beyond the wheels
- High-Voltage Grid Engineers: grid infrastructure leads and utility account managers handling megawatt-scale industrial allocations
- Microgrid & Storage Orchestrators: BESS developers, smart power management leads, industrial microgrid architects
- Fleet Systems & Security: Fleet Directors, Asset Management Leads, and cybersecurity architects aligning mobile equipment with NIS2
- Capital & Procurement Leads: structuring TCO cases and multi-million-euro fleet leases
- Mining Finance & Insurance: commodity bankers, Export Credit Agency representatives, and underwriters pricing underground high-voltage risk
- Regulatory & Compliance: legal counsel, Scope 1/2/3 auditors, and supply-chain specialists executing Battery Passport and CRMA obligations