World Hydrogen Derivatives Pre-Event Webinar
Assessing the Capability of the Hydrogen Derivatives Market for Commercial Operations

With the global hydrogen market emerging out of its infancy, it will become essential to develop viable transportation and distribution methods at affordable costs, particularly when it comes to transporting hydrogen over long distances. This opens up a new market for hydrogen carriers or derivatives, and their role in providing an alternative to more costly and less energy efficient hydrogen transportation alternatives, such as pipelines and cryogenic storage. Hydrogen derivatives however are not yet ready for mass market deployment, and still need to be evaluated and developed across a range of use cases. This event will delve into the challenges and opportunities that are present in the hydrogen derivatives space, as well as evaluate the suitable applications across a myriad of sectors.

On a separate note, there are a number of use cases already for hydrogen derivatives in industrial applications, that still require decarbonising. Ammonia is commonly used in fertiliser as well as other chemical-heavy industries. Likewise, methanol has been used across the chemical space for decades. Both ammonia and methanol are considered to be propulsion fuels of the future, with Southwest China's Guizhou province setting a goal of launching 10,000 methanol-powered vehicles back in 2019.

This event will highlight the opportunities hydrogen derivatives have within the hydrogen world as well as how we can decarbonise the wider supply chains by reducing the carbon intensity of production.

Agenda:

Is the hydrogen derivatives market ready for commercial use?
How can the production and transportation of hydrogen carriers be scaled up to support wide-spread industrial decarbonisation?
What role will hydrogen derivatives play and which carrier will be the most effective in the energy transition?

Speakers

Michelle Robson

Senior Investment Manager, AP Ventures

Michelle Robson is a Senior Investment Manager with AP Ventures focused on investment, portfolio management and management of the Fund’s portfolio construction. Michelle is a director on the board of Starfire Energy and HPNow, and an observer on the board of Amogy and Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies. Michelle has extensive experience in portfolio and business development, commercial strategy creation and implementation and new and innovative deep tech and digital technologies. Her international experience spans Europe, USA and Australia. Prior to AP Ventures, Michelle held a number of group and commercial strategy roles within Anglo American including establishing and leading Anglo American’s first digital and innovation function. Before this, Michelle was a Manager with boutique management consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting.

Margaret Mutschler

VP Project Development, CWP Global

Margaret has vast experience in the packaging, negotiating and managing of complex infrastructure projects. She serves on a number of investment fund boards, providing guidance to finance infrastructure projects. As a partner in Mutschler Consulting Services (MCS), a cross-sectoral consultancy supplying engineering, management and development solutions on sustainable cross-sectoral projects, she is supporting CWP Global in developing their international PtX projects. Margaret’s role in CWP Global’s international Green Hydrogen team is as Vice-President Project Development. She served as the inaugural chairperson of Namibian Green Hydrogen Association (NamGHA).

Ronny Haufe

Chief Executive Officer, CCB Energy Holding

Ronny Haufe is a versatile Norwegian businessman with an extensive professional background in business development, strategic work, negotiation processes, generic planning, supply chain and shipyard service management. He was educated in the Royal Norwegian Navy and the Norwegian School of Information Technology with wide operational experience and expertise within logistics and IT. Ronny Haufe has dedicated the last five years to developing a climate-positive industrial park, with a particular focus on establishing H2 production based on the use of natural gas or biogas with integrated CO2 capture. He has a strong belief in CO2 storage, but also more creative and climate-efficient utilization, as well as achieving and making available other energy carriers based on hydrogen. He has a strong enthusiasm for the ambition to create circular value chains with green synergies between different industries. Industries that will contribute to a better climate and thus a better future. He is also chairman and member of several companies within green industry and subsea technology and is a frequent speaker and participant at events within clean hydrogen energy carriers, CCS and sustainability.

Anita Demuth

Deputy Director, PtX Lab Lausitz

Before entering the exciting green hydrogen and PtX world, Anita worked in several international development projects on climate policy and finance, renewable energies, sustainable business and economic policy. Since March 2021, she has been part of a growing team that builds up a new think tank for green and sustainable PtX markets, sectors and policies. Her focus here lies in scientific work on sustainability criteria for PtX and policy instruments for market ramp-up.

Abdelaziz Yatribi

Co-Founder and CEO, Yamna

Abdelaziz is the Co- Founder and CEO of Yamna, a green hydrogen and ammonia development and investment platform backed by HyCap (a leading Hydrogen Private Equity Fund). His purpose, through Yamna, is to contribute to the energy transition by providing the most competitive green molecules and fuels that meet the needs of world tomorrow while safeguarding our planet.

He has a proven track record of developing and leading multi-million dollar projects in the Solar, Wind, and more recently Green Hydrogen and Ammonia sectors, He is an industry leader within the Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen/Ammonia space. Over the years, he has accumulated a wealth of experience in the renewable energy sector, where he has accomplished record achievements leading organizations towards exponential business growth by securing and implementing the most competitive solutions on the market whilst preserving shareholder value triggering billions of dollars investments into the sector.

Gokce Mete

Global Hydrogen Lead (Climate Investments)

Dr Gokce Mete is Global Lead in heavy industry transition and low-carbon hydrogen at South Pole, designing and developing business models and project investment case for renewable hydrogen. She also leads policy and advocacy efforts of South Pole in the hard to abate industry space to steer companies towards ambitious and credible corporate climate leadership. Gokce is co-founder of the Women in Green Hydrogen Network, author of over 30 publications, and has over 12+ years of business and strategy development, policy & regulatory analysis, leadership, project and stakeholder management experience focused on climate change, international development, carbon markets and green transformation of energy, heavy industry and minerals sectors. Previously she was the Head of Secretariat of the UN Leadership Group for the Industry Transition hosted by the Stockholm Environment Institute which explores how policy, finance and business practices in hard-to-abate industry sectors such as steel, cement, heavy duty transport and chemicals can be aligned to achieve climate neutrality.