Connecting Green Hydrogen Europe 2024’s Post

🌎Connecting Green Hydrogen Europe, Madrid 2024🌎   The CGHE event in Madrid last week was an incredibly exciting and rewarding experience! Two days full of highlights included the panel session on 𝐔𝐧𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚: 𝐀 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐇𝐲𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 led by our EVP Iberia, Niels van Buuren, and the panel session on 𝐇𝐲𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 - 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐁𝐮𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬' 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 led by our VP Strategy Consulting & Project Development, Peter Daemen. In between the panel sessions, our Iberia team had insightful meetings with industry leaders, interesting discussions with innovative companies and inspired conversations on leading the energy transition and the role of green molecules.⚡️🔋 We would like to thank everyone who visited our stand and joined us for a typical Dutch delight “haring” or for a more local specialty “jamón Ibérico” during our booth drinks. Together, we will leverage Iberia's potential to lead the European green hydrogen economy!🌟⚗️ See you next year! #Power2X #EnergyTransition #GreenMolecules #CGHE2024 #Hydrogen #H2 #Projectdevelopment #ErasmoPower2X #MadoquaPower2X   Thierry Lepercq, Anton Martinez Rodriguez, Carolina Mesa Ivern, Jorge Palomar Herrero, André Pina, Alan Ripa Ngkaion, Maribel Rodríguez Olmo, Dr. Alexander Fleischanderl, Franz Helm, Gotzon Gomez Sarasola, Rizwan Janjua

Takeaways from Madrid… and a 🏆! Spain isn't on everyone's lips in the H2 world for no reason. It has both natural and cultural strengths and is playing these: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬! Spain boasts a healthy and abundant mix of hydro, wind, and solar, resulting in reasonably priced clean energy. And experience in integrating it into the grid. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩! On both the electrons and molecules sides, companies like Iberdrola, ACCIONA, Enagás Enagás Renovable , Repsol, and CEPSA are unavoidable energy leaders, leveraging decades of experience in building and operating projects. 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭! The strong engineering culture in Spain particularly struck me. 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝! Spain is home to energy-intensive industries, including refineries, ammonia, and steel plants. Spain consumes half a million tonnes of grey H2 annually, poised to be replaced by renewable H2. Of course, it's not all pink and shiny. There are challenges, such as water scarcity, the need to transpose #REDII and III (similar to other EU countries), political sluggishness with pending subsidy programmes. Yet Spain’s drive is there and it's been a pleasure to sense it! And so - I'm thrilled to bring back the Connecting Green Hydrogen Europe 2024 Excellence award on behalf of the Atmen team! It’s a wonderful souvenir and a promise to return. Special thanks to the jury for their attention and insightful questions: Belén Linares Corell from CEPSA, Sebastian Vetter from Equinor Ventures , Nevin Alija from Mulheres na Energia, Vuk Trifkovic from BCG X, and Achmed Junusov from H2UB. A special shout-out to our cherished partner, H2UB, for making this happen!