Securing green energy supply

For decades, mainly natural gas was and still is used for heating in the built environment, agriculture and industry as well as for power generation and as industrial feedstock.

While society is demanding a transition to renewable sources, we now see that the security of energy supply, as we have known it for a long time, is no longer a given. We see challenges arising with the availability and the affordability of energy, but also our pace towards a clean energy system in 2050 needs to be increased.

Energy Reinvented Community (ERC) wants to address these challenges in 2023. The annual theme will be SECURING GREEN ENERGY SUPPLY. Steering board member Rene Peters (TNO) says: “Deepening our understanding what the stakes are, how this affects industry and what role partnerships can play in developing the solutions society so desperately needs, will be at the center.”

Aiming to expand the circle and bring in new ideas, ERC will also give the stage to start-ups active in sustainable energy solutions. Steering board member Jan Prins (Siemens Energy ) explains: “Newcomers bring in the new ideas and innovation we need, where we all can benefit from, Industry, society and the planet not in the least. At ERC we want to give start and scale-ups the stage to share.”

March: Heat

With the phasing out of natural gas and the goals deriving from the Dutch climate agreement, the heat transition is gathering momentum. Municipalities play an important role: via the Regional Energy Strategy (RES) and via the Vision on Heat Transition. Industry needs to deliver as well, with sustainable solutions for the heat transition, from electric heat pumps, biogas, and thermal storage to residual heat from industry and geothermal and aqua thermal energy. And investing in a knowledge infrastructure and human capital.

June: System integration

As we move towards a decarbonised world, energy supply will be primarily sourced from renewable power sources such as Offshore wind, floating solar, hydro, Wave thermal, creating an unprecedented need for huge energy modular base load power generation is required different including and storage capacity solution are required A variety of new technologies to store energy are developing at a fast pace and are increasingly becoming more market competitive.

“Deepening our understanding what the stakes are, how this affects industry and what role partnerships can play in developing the solutions society so desperately needs, will be at the center.”

November: Energy Hub Europe

Europe wants to be climate neutral in 2050. Together countries in northwest Europe have the assets, knowledge, and people to change the system. We will look at a wide variety of collaborations that can bring numerous synergy benefits. E.g. the role of ports as energy hubs, the realisation of an international hydrogen backbone, ensuring green hydrogen will make its way into Europe, and the role of the North Sea.

With 1,400+ members the Energy Reinvented Community is designed to connect a wide range of stakeholders related to the energy industry. Its aim is to provide a platform for discussions, foster partnerships, spark ideas, generate innovation and enable cross sector and cross border activities, all related to the energy transition. Energy Reinvented Community was founded TNO, Siemens Energy and Shell in 2013. EBN joined the partners in 2018 and TenneT in 2021.

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