I had the privilege of giving a GRIDTech Talk at the #GRIDTech2024 in Brussels. Kind thanks to all the participants and presenters, it was really a great, warm event with good discussions.
I could write a lot about all the possible aspects that I started to think about after the event, but perhaps I focus on technology neutrality. This was raised in practically all the sessions and for example in the opening remarks. Yet, it looks like we lack an understanding of how renewable hydrogen can benefit from low-carbon hydrogen and how this should be taken into account when planning for future hydrogen-based energy systems.
We also need to change our thinking based on the colors, where "green" is always better than "others". Instead, we should talk about the numbers, like CO2 emissions based on life-cycle assessments. Where the emissions of "green" are really low while using only, say, wind energy, the operations during "dunkelflaute" require supplemental power to be used. Eventually, this will raise the emissions of the electrolysis hydrogen closer to the limit stated in the regulation, 3.4 kgCO2e/kgH2. On the other hand, the hydrogen produced by Hycamite has less emissions than 1 kgCO2e/kgH2. In some cases, we have reached even below 0.2 in our site evaluations. Low-carbon hydrogen can really be worth its name.
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On December 2, I will have the pleasure to moderate the GRIDTech event.
The event is organised by Eurogas and GIE with technical partnership of ENTSOG. It starts at 2:30pm and finishes at 6:30pm, and takes place in Brussels (Stanhope Hotel).
We will have the pleasure to listen to the keynote speech of Prof. Dr. Andrea Wechsler, Member of ITRE Committee of the European Parliament
There will be three panels on
1) Repurposing for H2 in practice: technical basis and transparent principles
With David Gil, Subject Manager, Interoperability & Data Exchange at ENTSOG; Daniel Fraile, Chief Policy Officer at Hydrogen Europe and Joost Hooghiem, Director of Hydrogen Network Netherlands at Gasunie
2) What role for gas infrastructure in a successful industrial carbon management strategy & climate transition?
With Arno Büx, President of GIE, CEO of FluxSwiss Sagl, SVP Corporate Commercial at Fluxys Group; Magdalena Vallebona, Climate & Energy Director at Cerame-Unie and Michał Wendołowski, Senior Manager of Climate Technology and Policy at Bellona Europa
3) How can flexibility support competitiveness in a decarbonized energy system?
With Joaquim Nunes de Almeida, Director of Mobility & Energy Intensive Industries at DG GROW (European Commission); Charlotte Roule 夏澜, President of Gas Storage Europe (GSE), CEO of Storengy; Jeroen Sanders, Member of the Executive Board and Chief Transition Officer at Enexis and Annika Brack, Director and Head of Practice, Energy, Mobility and Sustainability at CERRE
Three GRIDTech Talks
* Christoph von dem Bussche on the German Core Hydrogen Grid
* Luis Ignacio PARADA on Securing & Greening Energy for Europe – The Role of a Terminal Operator
* Matti Malkamäki on the BotH2nia project
Finally, Boyana Achovski, Secretary General of GIE, Piotr Kus, General Director of ENTSOG and Andreas Guth, Secretary General of Eurogas will deliver their concluding remarks.
#gas #gasgrids #hydrogen #flexibility #competitiveness #biomethane #decarbonisation
Center on Global Energy Policy Robert Johnston Lyubomira Efremova Antoine Hoxha François-Régis Mouton Andrei Covatariu Christelle Verstraeten Axel Scheuer Miguel Gil Tertre Luca Franza Pau Ruiz Guix Olivier De Block Daria Nochevnik Anne Houtman Dan A. Rieser, PhD Christopher Jones Thierry Deschuyteneer BALDWIN Matthew (Move) Kathrin Kutlescha, PhD Siobhan Hall
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Market Manager, Guarantees of Origin
3moThanks for sharing this, Olli! 🤩 We really are living interesting times in the GO-space right now with significant foreseeable increase in both supply and demand. It will be interesting to see how the REDIII-driven future increase in PPAs will impact the market of the unbundled GO, as well 🙌