Afternoon Workshop
Upcoming technologies: Greening your heat supply
- Bart Verest, Lead Partner Energy Policy & Regulatory Affairs at E&C Consultants
- Emma Nocquet-Wass, Energy Procurement and Transition Consultant at E&C Consultants
Many companies have targets to decarbonize their power supply by 2030 and to achieve full-scope decarbonization by 2050. To reach that first target, solutions are at hand.
But full-scope decarbonization also means the replacement of fossil fuels for your heat supply. And that currently looks like a much more difficult task.Green hydrogen was warmly embraced as a miracle solution by politicians and opportunistic businessmen. But with its three-to-one ratio (you need 3 MWh’s of electricity to generate a MWh of energy with hydrogen), it’s difficult to see how we’ll make the economics of green hydrogen work.
Biogas is another solution, but here we are restricted by the limitation of flows of raw materials. Meaning that the third option, electrification of heating processes is the most viable at the moment.
In this workshop, we’ll take a peek beyond the current race for more renewable power at the big upcoming challenge of decarbonizing your heat supply.