System-level steps in the Dutch energy transition

NAE Expert Meeting

By invitation only, working language: English

The Dutch energy transition increasingly requires choices at the system level. While many individual projects are technically feasible, without coherence they do not automatically result in an affordable, scalable, and secure system solution. On May 28, NAE will organize an expert meeting to establish – based on shared facts and explicit assumptions – a testable framework for an NAE advisory on regionalization as an implementation logic for system-level steps in the Dutch energy transition.

The intended outcome is to generate sufficient system insight to formulate an advisory that:
(i) makes explicit the balance between electrification and molecular energy carriers,
(ii) helps organize investable and socially explainable choices at the regional level,
(iii) addresses the availability of technical and engineering talent as a critical success factor.

Programme

9.30 – 10.00 | Arrival & technical check

10.00 | Welcome by Lukas Roffel, Chair of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering

Speakers

• Setting the scene by Dirk Smit, Chair preparatory committee
• Why the transition now calls for system-level steps, Gert Jan Kramer, Professor of Sustainable Energy Supply Systems at Utrecht University
• Balance between direct electrification and molecular energy carriers, Gerard van Pijkeren, Director EnergyStock

11.15 I Break

• Safety and permitting issues, Monique Berrevoets-Steenbakker, Strategic Advisor SAVE, Antea Group Nederland
• System architectures and the demand for metals, minerals, logistics and industrial supply chains, Simon Michaux, Senior Scientist at Geological Survey of Finland (GTK)

12.30 I Lunch break

13.15 I Part two

• Conditions to make system-level steps socially acceptable, economically justifiable and administratively manageable, Pieter Boot, Senior fellow Centre for International Energy Policy

13.55 I Paneldiscussion 1

14.40 I Break

15.00 I Paneldiscussion 2

15.45 I Conclusions and next steps

16.00 I Closing event

Moderator

Ulrich Starke, Co-founder ZEF B.V. – Zero Emission Fuels