16
Jun
2023
Debates Conférences
Hybrid
from 08:45 to 17:00
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European Hydrogen Conference
European Hydrogen Conference
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Post crises hydrogens plans in EU Member States and building blocks for a Portugal-Spain-France-Germany H2 corridor Conférence

Germany’s transition to climate neutrality will require large volumes of low carbon hydrogen and byproducts (H2). A large part will have to be imported, and German companies plan to play a key role across significant portions of the value chains with the backing of the government.

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 Programme, Elcano Royal Institute

 

09:00-10:30  |  Panel 1

Future H2 demand in Southern Germany and Switzerland, taking into account impact of energy crisis on the Wirtschaftstandort?

  • Markus Exenberger, Executive Director, H2 Global Foundation
  • Dr. Fabian Pfaffenberger, Managing Director, Zentrum Wasserstoff.Bayern (H2.B)
  • Bernd Reuter, Senior Ministerial Councilor, Deputy Department Head, and Head of the Hydrogen Unit, Baden-Württemberg
  • Volker Hasenberg, Deputy Head of International Hydrogen Strategy, Daimler Trucks
  • Ulrich Heppe, CEO, Stuttgart Airport
  • Elke Eckstein, Senior Vice President Engineering and Facilities, Flughafen München GmbH
  • 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
  • Olivia Infante, Director of Regulation and Clean Energies, Cepsa
  • Mayte 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, VRIA
 

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
 

13:15-14:40   |  Panel 3 

The future hydrogen map and ramp up: local or global? Fundamentally 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 impacted realities and strategies?

  • Alexandre Perra, Group Senior Executive Vice-President, Innovation, Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategy,EDF
  • Valérie Ruiz-Domingo, Group Hydrogen Vice-President, Engie
  • Mansur Zhakupov, Vice President, Hydrogen Gas, Renewables & Power, Totalenergies
  • Matthieu Giard, Vice President, Air Liquide
  • Luc Poyer, CEO, McPhy
  • Boréalis, Fertiberia (tbc)

Moderation: Diana Gherasim, Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Climate, Ifri

14:40-16:00  |  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 Boziers, Public Infrastructure and Project Finance Leader, Mazars
  • Dominique Mockly, Chairman and CEO, Teréga
  • Thierry Trouvé, CEO GRTGaz
  • Julien Breton, Head of New Business & Services, Storengy
  • Dr. Matthias Jenn, Director, Bayernets
  • Dominique Jamme, Director, French Energy Market Regulation Commission (CRE)

Moderation: Gonzalo Escribano, Director of the Energy and Climate Change Programme, Elcano Royal Institute

 

16:00-17:00  |  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

 

 


Address: 
27 rue de la Procession, 75015 Paris
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For more information on the debate, please contact Aurélia Bessède at bessede@ifri.org

Keywords
Economic partnerships European Strategy Hydrogen France Germany Portugal Spain