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