Power-To-Gas seminar

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Program day 1 - 20 March 2013

9.30 - Registration and welcome with coffee and tea

10.00 - Opening by your chairman: why power-to-gas?
Jörg Gigler - Chairman of the Power2Gas steering Group, Dutch Gas Innovation Team

10.30 - GERG Research Roadmap for Power-to-Gas Technology
Robert Judd - Secretary General, European Gas Research Group (GERG)

√ The WHY factor: electricity surplus and grid facilities

11.00 - Growing supply of sustainable electricity: can we handle it?
Gert van der Lee - Team Leader Long Term Gridplanning, TenneT

11.30 - Coffee and tea break

12.00 - Surplus of electricity: the development of offshore wind farms
Ton Hirdes - Director, NWEA

12.30 - IRENE-40: Infrastructure Roadmap for Electricity Networks in Europe
Enrique Gaxiola - Project Member, IRENE-40

√ Feasibility to realize power-to-gas projects and applications

13.00 - Lunch

14.00 - The potential of Power-to-Gas: the new Eureka?
Marcel Weeda - Senior researcher Hydrogen Transition & Infrastructure, ECN

14.30 - Technical feasibility of Power-to-Gas projects
Clemens Hoffmann - Fraunhofer-Institut für Windenergie und Energiesystemtechnik (IWES)

15.15 - Coffee and tea break

15.45 / Options and  nancial feasibility of the use of hydrogen for Power-to-Gas solutions

Ulrich Bünger - Senior Scientist, Ludwig-Bölkow-Systemtechnik, GmbH

√ Positioning storage alternatives; a comparative perspective

16.30 / Where does power-to-gas stand in relation to other storage facilities?
Stine Grenaa Jensen - Chief Economist, Ph.D., Gas Development and Preparedness Manager, Energinet.dk

√ Power-to-Gas: what’s your point of view?

17.00 - House of commons debate: believers versus criticasters
Take your stand and start the debate with your colleagues and speakers present at the seminar.

Theorems on:
• Power-to-gas; yes or no?
• Scale and scope
• Feasibility of power-to-gas
• Efficiency and commercialization

18.00 - Wrap-up by your chairman followed by networking drinks in the foyer

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Program day 2 - 21 March 2013

9.00 - Welcome with coffee and tea

9.20 - Opening by your chairman
Jörg Gigler - Chairman of the Power2Gas steering Group, Dutch Gas Innovation Team

9.30 - Regulatory framework; standardization and certi cation
Harold Pauwels - Manager NEN Energy Resources

10.00 - Impact of hydrogen injection on transmission, distribution and conversion
Jürgen Lenz - Vice-President Gas, DVGW e. V.

√ Electrolyze and hydrogen storage innovations

10.45 - Water Electrolysis Technology: special requirements for a PtG application
Filip Smeets - General Manager, Hydrogenics Europe

11.15 - Coffee and tea break

11.45 - Power e cient plasma activation of CO2: a novel route towards energy storage in chemical bonds

Richard van de Sanden - Director, Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER)

12.15 - Large scale storage of hydrogen
Luis Correas - Project Coordinator, HyUnder

12.45 - Lunch

13.45 - PtG experiences of the German gas industry compared to the Dutch industry
Hans Coenen - Vice president Corporate Strategy, Gasunie & Director, Gasunie Deutschland

14.30 - Innovation in Energy storage at E.ON - Focus PtG pilot plant in Falkenhagen
Andrei Zschocke - Technology & Innovation Manager, E.ON Innovation Center Energy Storage

15.15 - Hydrogen infrastructure in the Groningen Seaports
Theo Smit - Manager Strategic Development, Groningen Seaports (with reservation of agenda)

16.00 - Wrap up by your chairman