Post crises hydrogen plans in EU Member States and building blocks for a Portugal-Spain-France-Germany H2 corridor Conférence
Portugal and Spain are simultaneously gearing up for significant domestic production, aimed at fostering reindustrialization and, potentially, facilitating exports as well. France in turn sees a more limited role for hydrogen with electrification and on-site production given a priority, but is now open to being a transit country for supplies to Germany.
Fundamental questions to be discussed in this high-level conference include: What will be the future demand for H2 in Southern Germany and Northwestern Switzerland? What quantity will be available for export from the Iberian Peninsula: What role will France play with its potential position as a “rainbow H2” nation: all-colours producer, consumer, exporter, transit country? What is required to develop a hydrogen transport corridor to Southern Germany, building on the H2Med project?
Program
8:30 | Welcome coffee
8:45–09:00 | Introductory remarks
Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, Director, Center for Energy & Climate, Ifri
Gonzalo Escribano, Director of the Energy and Climate Change Program, Elcano Royal Institute
09:00-10:30 | Panel 1
Future H2 demand in Southern Germany and Switzerland, taking into account impact of crises on the Wirtschaftstandort?
- Markus Exenberger, Executive Director, H2 Global Foundation
- Bernd Reuter, Senior Ministerial Councilor, Deputy Department Head, and Head of the Hydrogen Unit, Baden-Württemberg
- Dr. Fabian Pfaffenberger, Managing Director, Zentrum Wasserstoff.Bayern, Hydrogen Center Bavaria
- Ulrich Heppe, CEO, Stuttgart Airport
- Elke Eckstein, Senior Vice President Engineering and Facilities, Flughafen München GmbH
- Volker Hasenberg, Deputy Head of International Hydrogen Strategy, Daimler Trucks
- Dr. Arthur Janssen, Leiter Strategie & Innovation, IWB, Founder, H2 Hub Switzerland
Moderation: Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, Director, Center for Energy & Climate, Ifri
10:30-10:50 | Coffee break
10:50-12:15 | Panel 2
Supply side and export potential in Portugal and Spain
- Francisco Laverón, Direction of Energy Policies Head of Energy Policy, Iberdrola
- Francisco Maza Luque, Director of Hydrogen, Repsol
- Mayte Teresa Nonay, Director of Strategy, Enagas
- Jose Manuel Rodriguez, Director of Hydrogen Regulation & Gov Affairs, EDP
- Diogo Almeida, Head of Hydrogen Business Development, GALP
Moderation: Laurent Thery, President, Vercors Renewables Investments Advisors
12:15-13:15 | Networking Lunch (by invitation)
Address by Prof Dr. Veronika Grimm, Chair of Economic Theory, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg on Germany’s energy policy post-crises and impacts on H2
13:30-15:00 | Panel 3
The future hydrogen value chain map and ramp up: local or global ? Diverging views on systems or just a matter of sequencing and location? What is an efficient balance between electrons and molecules and how have the crises ?
- Alexandre Perra, Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Innovation, Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategy, EDF
- Mansur Zhakupov, Vice President, Hydrogen Gas, Renewables & Power, Totalenergies
- Valérie Ruiz-Domingo, Group Hydrogen Vice-President, Engie
- Pierre-Etienne Franc, CEO, HY24
- Olivia Infantes Morales, Director of Regulation and Clean Energies, Cepsa
- Luc Poyer, CEO, McPhy
- Matthieu Giard, Vice President, Air Liquide
- Bertrand Walle, Manager, Regional Energy & Carbon, HSE&Q Borealis
Moderation: Diana Gherasim, Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Climate, Ifri
15:00-16:30 | Panel 4
Squaring the transportation challenge from Spain to Germany: infrastructure upgrades, bottlenecks, H2Med, competing routes or energy supplies. What are conducive policies and regulation requied to ensure the viability of investments? How can France become a hydrogen platform with transit, storage, and flexible supplies?
- Ruud Kempener, Member of Cabinet, DG Energy, European Commission
- Philippe Bozier, Public Infrastructure and Project Finance Leader, Mazars
- Dominique Mockly, Chairman and CEO, Teréga
- Thierry Trouvé, CEO GRTGaz
- Damien Ravaud, New Gases Director, Storengy France
- Dr. Matthias Jenn, Director, Bayernets
- François Leveille, Head ofUpstream gas Infrastructure Department, CRE
Moderation: Gonzalo Escribano, Director of the Energy and Climate Change Program, Elcano Royal Institute
16:30-17:00 | Coffee and seminar conclusion
This event is by invitation only and will be held in English in hybrid format.
In partnership with Elcano Royal Institute