Christian Pho Duc, Managing Director of Smartenergy Projects, Smartenergy
- Enabling hydrogen to be a systemic solution to achieving a renewable world for energy, mobility & industry
- Opportunities and challenges facing green hydrogen to replacing grey hydrogen across the value chain
- What regulatory, financial and market developments need to happen for cost to come down and bulk production to scale up?
Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Secretary General, Hydrogen Europe
- How big can the hydrogen market really be?
- What will drive world demand growth of hydrogen and how will it be priced?
- An update on the short term global supply dynamics
- What medium term trends that are shaping the market?
Stefan Reichelstein, Director, Mannheim Institute for Sustainable Energy Studies
- How much will this cost & where will investment come from?
- What policy & public perception barriers need to be overcome?
- Sector coupling and creating a united energy framework for electricity and gas
Moderator:
Frank Wouters, Global Lead Green Hydrogen, Worley
Panellists:
Dr Tudor Constantinescu, Principal Advisor – DG for Energy, EC Commission
Noe van Hulst, Hydrogen Envoy, Ministry of Economic Affairs & Climate Policy, The Netherlands
João Galamba, Secretary of State for Energy & Deputy Minister, Portugal
- What is the motivation to make the Hydrogen “extension” ahead of parity?
- What to avoid - experiences from previous technology transitions
- What main choices to be made for on-grid and off-grid renewable power plants?
Christian Pho Duc, Managing Director of Smartenergy Projects, Smartenergy
- What will it take to encourage and grow demand for green/blue hydrogen?
- Business models – how to invest in future infrastructure for energy, mobility and industry
- With hydrogen technologies reaching maturity how does the industry move from R&D to market activation?
- What is the cost base and when will it break even?
Moderator:
James Watson, Secretary General, Eurogas
Panellists:
Laurent Carme, Chief Executive Officer, McPhy
Eva Hennig, Head of Department Policy Issues, Thüga
Soonil Jeon, Head of Fuel Cell Engineering Design Group, Hyundai Motor Group
Jean-Marc Leroy, Senior Vice President, Infrastructure, Engie
- What are the opportunities and constraints for the value chain and policy markers?
- What political & insurance risk impacts finance decisions?
- How do we step up to truly large scale projects commensurate with climate change targets quickly?
- Shifting from short term to long term investment models
Moderator:
Pedro Guedes De Campos, Financial Engineering Officer, FCH Europe
Panellists:
Dries Acke, Director, Energy Systems Programme, European Climate Foundation
Bert van der Toorn, Global Lead Mid / Downstream Oil & Gas, Biofuels & Hydrogen, ING Bank
Fernando De Sisternes, Energy Specialist & lead on the Energy Storage Partnership Program, The World Bank
Dr. Alena Fargère, Principal, Swen Capital
- The international Trading of renewables option – what are the timescales for at scale green hydrogen
- What technologies are in the market / on the horizon to allow green hydrogen to organically develop alongside blue?
- Challenges to developing the supply chain – the importance of mega scale, large and small projects
- Regulation & encouraging investment.
- Storage - how to articulate the differences between gas storage and battery market to policy maker
- Economies of scale – Bringing down the cost of components
Benjamin Grunfeld, Partner, Energy, Sustainability, and Infrastructure, Guidehouse
Questions led by: Christian Pho DUC, Managing Director of Smartenergy Projects, SMARTENERGY
- Given grid constraints means a lot of capacity coming on line won’t find a place on the grid, how can developers benefit from hydrogen?
- Can renewables produce enough green hydrogen to meet our needs, and might hydrogen boost commitment to renewables? What about the rate of deployment?
- Reducing load factors on power plants, creating more flexibility and reliability
- Overcoming infrastructure constraints
- Exploring the cost of electrolysis, capex & opex investment – making hydrogen economically viable
- Traceability: guarantees of origin – where are we?
Moderator:
Giles Dickson, CEO, Wind Europe
Panellists:
Ulf Eriksen, Vice President, Hydrogen, Statkraft
Walburga Hemetsberger, CEO, SolarPowerEurope
Hans-Joachim Polk, Member of the Executive Board, VN
Ulrik Stridbaek, Vice President, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Ørsted
Gabrielle Gauthey, Senior Vice President - Carbon Neutrality Businesses, Total
- Working together to create an ‘at scale’ hydrogen market for the short medium and long term
- Developing and/or converting your assets for hydrogen use
- End User technology readiness levels - available vs affordable technologies
Moderator:
Marc Oliver Bettzüge, Head of the Chair of Energy Economics, Department of Economics, University of Cologne
Panellists:
Hans Coenen, Vice-president Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Gasunie
Axel Wietfeld, Managing Director, Uniper Energy Storage
Matthew Harwood, Global Vice President of Strategy, Risk and Sustainability, McDermott
- Green: Global trading, removing constraints, timescales for renewable availability, timescale for scalability end to end?
- Blue: Enabling scale and infrastructure - benefits of SMR and methane pyrolysis
Moderator:
Timm Kehler, Chairman, Zukunft Erdgas
Panellists:
Konstantin Romanov, Head of Division & Executive Secretary, Coordinating committee on environmental protection and energy efficiency, Gazprom
Eric Sebellin, Marketing & Strategy Director - Hydrogen Energy, Air Liquide
Koos Overwater, Vice President – New Technologies, TechnipFMC
Mark Neller, Director / UK Energy Lead, ARUP
- What are the opportunities & constraints to converting to 100% green hydrogen in Europe’s gas grids?
- What regulatory & technical hurdles need to be overcome?
- To what extent are existing pipes suitable for hydrogen? The gas quality debate
- Making the right decisions to encourage investments
Moderator:
Torben Brabo, CEO, Energinet
Panellists:
Sabine Augustin, Head of Strategy, Open Grid Europe
Thierry Trouve, CEO, GRTgaz
Keith Whiriskey, Deputy Director, Bellona
Yves Vercammen, Director Transformation Projects, Fluxys
Ed Syson, Chief Safety & Strategy Officer, Cadent
- Could fuel cells really become a main form of power?
- What infrastructure & safety development needs to happen to support widespread use?
- What technologies are out there to reduce Co2 and who pays for it?
- Ammonia – can this become the fuel of choice for maritime?
Moderator:
Patrice Domenge, Director of Engineering and R&D, Alca-Torda Application
Panellists:
Robert Missen, Head of the Unit in charge of Innovation & Research, European Commission Directorate General for Mobility and Transport
Rear Admiral (ret) Klaas Visser, Associate Professor – Marine Engineering, TU Delft
Natacha Stamatiou, Research Analyst, Environmental Defense Fund
Christa Sys, BNP Paribas Fortis Chair on Transport, Logistics and Ports, University of Antwerp
Koos Overwater, Vice President – New Technologies, TechnipFMC
- Innovative technology to capture co2: the costs behind blue hydrogen and strategies for reducing energy consumption
- Ensuring the commercial viability of blue hydrogen – who will invest?
- What are the opportunities and limitations of hydrogen storage? Salt caverns & depleted gas fields
- CCUS and hydrogen technology developed in regional industrial clusters
Moderator:
Marc Oliver Bettzüge, Head of the Chair of Energy Economics, Department of Economics, University of Cologne
Panellists:
Ståle Aakenes, Chief Economist, Gassnova
Eve Tamme, Senior Advisor, Global CCS institute
Arnaud Berthet, Chief Business Development & Strategy Officer, Storengy
Dan Sadler, Low Carbon Solutions, Equinor
Timm Kehler, Chairman, Zukunft Erdgas
- I Policies, incentives and regulatory environment
- Building new production & distribution facilities for mobility markets
- Hydrogen fuel cells & port equipment opportunities
- Partnerships & creative financing schemes
Q&A facilitated by: Carsten Rothballer, Coordinator Sustainable Resources, Climate & Resilience European Secretariat, ICLEI