The future of gas

PROGRAM
The EASAC report Future of Gas
00:03:41 William Gillett, EASAC Energy Programme Director and Anne Neumann, (NTNU) Co-Chair of the EASAC working group that was responsible for producing the Future of gas report
00:41:10 Comments by Andris Piebalgs, Florence School of Regulation, former EU Commissioner of Energy
00:54:30 Comments by Anne-Sophie Corbeau (Columbia University)
01:11:30 Q&A
Hydrogen and ammonia
01:23:35 Anders Strømman (NTNU): E-fuels and the Energy System Transition
01:35:40 Nils Røkke, Director HydrogenI
01:49:10 Christoph Stemmler, Senior manager, Project Enabling - Hydrogen, SEFE
02:00:20 Ben McWilliams, Bruegel
02:08:30 Q&A
Decarbonizing the gas demand side
02:17:40 Asgeir Tomasgard (NTNU): Interplay between renewables, hydrogen & natural gas
02:28:40 Konstantin Löffler (TU Berlin): Integrated energy system insights
02:35:53 Øystein Ulleberg (IFE): H2 and NH3 for use in Maritime Transport
02:47:30 Vibeke Rasmussen, SVP Product Management & Certification, Yara Clean Ammonia
02:55:30 Antti Kosonen (LUT), Professor, Lahti University of Technology (intervention)
03:00:30 Q&A
Security of supply
03:35:02 William Gillett, Energy Programme Director, EASAC: New project on security of sustainable energy supply
03:43:32 Franziska Holz (DIW Berlin): Security of supply in Europe with pipeline gas and LNG
03:55:40 Svein-Erik Losnegård, Advisor New Value Chains, Gassco: Germany-Norway energy cooperation joint feasibility study - H2 and CO2 value chain
04:04:05 Ulrik Olbjørn, Project Director for Clean Hydrogen to Europe, Equinor: Natural gas and hydrogen towards 2040
04:13:10 Dennis Wehmeyer, Head of Hydrogen & Sustainability, GASCADE Gastransport: The German core network: Kickoff for the European hydrogen economy
04:20:56 Q&A
04:32:54 Panel discussion with policy makers: Benjamin A. Notkevich (Ap) and Ola Elvestuen (V) discuss with Franziska Holz and Thina Margrethe Saltvedt.
Moderator: Franziska Holz. Moderator discussion with policy makers: Asgeir Tomasgard.
ABOUT
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters' Science advice committee together with NTRANS held a seminar 13.02.24 discussing the future of gas in the EU, based on the EASAC report Future of Gas.
EASAC’s report “Future of Gas” highlights the extremely high global warming potential of largely unrecorded methane leakages along the whole natural gas supply chain. To mitigate climate change, it is crucial to stop using all fossil fuels and to massively ramp up renewable electricity production.
For a long time, natural gas has been seen as the ideal bridge from coal on the road towards net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. In some countries, natural gas has become the main fuel to generate electricity. The EASAC report makes clear that this is a dead-end road. The report also weighs the possibilities of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and nuclear, and it urges that policy-makers, energy suppliers, energy users, and the finance sector must now work together to secure adequate supplies of clean energy while rapidly phasing out the use of fossil fuels.
What does this mean in reality? And what actions are being taken?
Photo: Einar Aslaksen / Equinor