On July 15th 2020, Energy Post hosted an online panel discussion with Dr. Florian Ermacora (European Commission), Professor Ad van Wijk (TU Delft), Marcel Steinbach (BDEW) and Giulia Branzi (SNAM). At the event, video recording below, readers heard a summary of the proposals for Europe’s new Hydrogen and Sector Integration strategies direct form the Commission, insights from van Wijk on how supply will come as much from outside as from within the EU, a note of caution from trading specialist Steinbach and the TSO view from SNAM, Europe’s largest natural gas infrastructure company and Energy Post’s partner for the event. The discussion was moderated by Erik Rakhou, Baringa Partners and ACER alternate member for the Board of Appeal…
Part one: the presentations
Part two: live Q and A
Frans Rusting says
Very interesting webinar. Thanks!
I agree of course with all those who say that one has to look at the whole system: production, transport, consumption.
Surely people have thought about this, but what I missed in the interesting contributions is the point that production of electricity based on sun, wind not only costs money but als needs land/sea surface. Without having facts available I feel that this might be a very limiting factor. I’m not saying that I prefer nuclear energy, but the required space certainly is an advantage of nuclear.
Per Dalgaard says
bout neclear power…
And based om Thorium.
Ram Yadav says
Hydrogen is broadly held to be the most favorable of different such technologies that could be deployed on a large scale over the coming years. Replacing finite fossil fuels with much cleaner technologies such as hydrogen could lead to major environmental benefits.