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The EAH team discusses shipping green house gas emissions elimination with Dr. Tristan Smith, who also helps translate some relatively positive developments at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) meeting of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) 83 in early April 2025.
About Dr. Tristan Smith:
Dr. Tristan Smith is a Professor in Energy and Transport at UCL Energy Institute and since 2010, has grown a substantial group focused on modeling and analysis of shipping’s efficiency emissions and decarbonisation pathways. He is an author of the 3rd and 4th IMO GHG (International Maritime Organization Green House Gas) Studies. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineers, Scientists, and Technologists, through which he attends and participates in IMO GHG debates.
About UCL Energy Institute:
The University College London (UCL) Energy Institute delivers world-leading learning, research and policy support on the challenges of climate change and energy security.
From data analytics to environmental economics, they equip graduates with the tools needed to succeed in a career in energy industry, academia or policy.
UCL research combines different approaches to develop tools, models and methods that address global energy challenges. Students and staff have a genuine passion for energy research, cutting carbon emissions and reducing energy demand.
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Links:
UCL
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/environment-energy-resources/energy/about/ucl-research-guiding-global-energy-transition
UCL Newsletter
https://ucl.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9c46e9f5e89e162ce6e4df39c&id=4fa6573287
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The EAH team unpacks multiple acronyms and endeavors with Nelson Monjarro, the lead coordinator of the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) a public-private initiative bringing together the energy and maritime sectors to enable the establishment of Clean Energy Marine Hubs (CEM-Hubs) at ports worldwide. The CEM-Hubs initiative has nine Energy and Transport Ministries working together with leaders of the energy maritime value chain and key partner organisations.
About Nelson Mojarro:
Nelson specializes in international energy and innovation, advising shipowners and m port leaders on alternative fuels and innovation. He has over 15 years of experience in high-level international energy policy and diplomacy, technology & innovation investments, as well as decarbonization. In addition to CEM-Hubs, his work focuses on green acceleration, connecting green finance, data, innovation and energy for a net-zero world.
As Representative of the Energy Sustainability Fund (£300M), based in Europe, Nelson led multi-million Euro international cooperation programs on clean energy innovation with the European Commission and the UK. He was a country delegate at COP21 in Paris and has participated in multiple COPs. He co-organised the COP28 Presidency CEO-Ministers meeting on energy and maritime in Dubai.
Nelson was an Advisory Board member of the Initiative Partnering to Accelerate Sustainable Energy Innovation of the World Economic Forum (WEF), and Vice-Chair of the Committee for Energy Research and Technology (CERT) of the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Nelson developed and coordinated the first government partnership on innovation with the Breakthrough Energy Coalition (BEC), a group of international investors led by Bill Gates, and initiated and launched the partnership between Mission Innovation, a multi-billion government initiative and the World Economic Forum (WEF) to advance clean energy innovation as well as business and government engagement.
Nelson is a former OIES Saudi Aramco Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. He also holds an MA in Industry and Innovation Analysis and did his doctorate studies at The Science Policy Research Unit in Sussex, United Kingdom (SPRU).
His research interests are related to technological change/innovation and energy transitions, particularly on the relationship between 'infrastructure change' and new 'green fuels'. He has published in academic journals about the use of biofuels in oil firms, such as BP, Shell, Petrobras and Pemex and was selected in 2013 as a Future Energy Fellow by Shell to write about Clean Energy for the Energy Collective.
About CEM:
The Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) is a high-level global forum to promote policies and programmes that advance clean energy technology, to share lessons learned and best practices, and to encourage the transition to a global clean energy economy. Initiatives are based on areas of common interest among participating governments and other stakeholders. The Framework for the Clean Energy Ministerial, reaffirmed at the twelfth Clean Energy Ministerial in 2021, defines the CEM governance structure and outlines the mission statement, objectives, membership, and guiding principles. The CEM brings together a community of the world’s largest and leading countries, companies and international experts to achieve one mission –accelerate clean energy transitions.
The CEM is an international clean energy leadership platform, a convening platform, an action platform, and an acceleration platform. It serves as a platform, where its members help shape the global clean energy agenda, and advance the deployment of specific clean energy technologies and solutions. It is also a bottom-up, government-led community for exchanging knowledge and insights, building networks and partnerships, and facilitating coordinated actions on clean energy and an implementation vehicle that helps its members
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The EAH team had the pleasure of speaking with Susana Moreira about H2Global’s plans to transform how Europe buys green fuels.
Susana Moreira is the Executive Director and Co-Chair of H2Global Stiftung. The H2Global Foundation is dedicated to fostering international cooperation and raising awareness about the H2Global mechanism and other market-based tools among governments worldwide to support their climate goals. It is also the body that has developed and now runs a unique double-sided auction mechanism, that aims to encourage global production of green fuels by providing long term certainty to project developers and allowing customers to purchase shorter term contracts, at prices that reflect market rates. In just three years, the H2Global instrument, implemented by Hintco, has mobilized over €5.86 billion from government sources to compensate for the price difference between supply and demand.
To hear more about Susana, H2Global and how they are hoping to unlock some of the worlds largest eFuel projects, don’t miss this week’s episode!
About Susana Moreira:
Susana Moreira is Executive Director and Co-Chair of the Board at H2Global Stiftung.
She has 15 years of experience working on energy and mining issues. During her 10+ years at the World Bank, she played a leading role in developing new projects in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa. She also led the “Climate-Smart Mining” initiative as well as the “Kickstart Hydrogen Knowledge Series”, and spearheaded various in-depth research publications on gases-for-transition, including green hydrogen, mining, and sustainability. Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked as a consultant on energy, political rights in Africa and public relations. She holds a PhD in International Studies, an MA in Pacific International Affairs, and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations.
About H2Global Stiftung:
H2Global supports the urgent need to create functioning markets for clean hydrogen and other low-emissions fuels by mobilizing public and private capital. The H2Global mechanism is designed to facilitate the ramp-up and use of clean hydrogen and other low-emissions fuels on an industrial scale, thereby actively contributing to the global energy transition and decarbonization efforts.
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Links:
Hintco Fact Sheet
https://cdn.sanity.io/files/u4w9plcz/production/8506bc6f24909ba96b6748f3fb0b28ab914607da.pdf
H2Global - Idea, Instrument, and Intentions Policy Brief
https://files.h2-global.de/H2Global-Stiftung-Policy-Brief-01_2022-EN.pdf
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EAH co-hosts Christopher Jackson, Alicia Eastman and Patrick Molloy sat down with Dr. Gökçe Mete Gascon to learn more about Vattenfall activities in decarbonizing hard to abate sectors such as steel and transport including methanol and other alternative fuels. As Co-founder and Board Member of Women in Green Hydrogen, Dr. Mete is focused on steel, methanol, and infrastructure.
About Dr. Gökçe Mete Gascon:
Dr. Mete is Senior Partnership Manager at Vattenfall, building and maintaining strategic partnerships with industrial players, such as chemicals, steel, refineries, industrial gases and transport to jointly tackle the challenges and opportunities of decarbonization, green hydrogen and the electrification of industrial processes.
Gökçe is Co-founder and Board Member of the Women in Green Hydrogen Network, Qualified lawyer, PhD, and author of 30 publications. She had over 14 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.
Prior to joining Vattenfall, she led South Pole’s heavy industry transition and renewable hydrogen portfolio as Global Head of Hydrogen, designing and developing business models and project investment cases for renewable hydrogen.
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.
About Vattenfall:
Vattenfall is one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat with approximately 19,000 employees. For more than 100 years, they have electrified industries, supplied energy to people's homes and modernised ways of living through innovation and cooperation. They are committed to building a future where everyone can choose fossil-free ways to move, make and live.
Vattenfall seeks to become fossil free itself and looks beyond its own industry to really make a difference. Together with its partners, the Company is taking on the responsibility to find new and sustainable ways to electrify transportation, industries and heating.
About Women in Green Hydrogen:
Women in Green Hydrogen is a network of passionate women working in the green hydrogen sector. The vision is to increase the visibility and amplify the voices of women working in green hydrogen. The network provides a platform to connect, empower, and change.
Diversity is essential for a sector that thrives on innovation and new ideas. The network works to promote the participation of women in conferences, expert talks, and relevant media to shape a more diverse and inclusive discourse in the world of green hydrogen. The goal is to build a community to foster knowledge exchange, connect women in green hydrogen, and create professional opportunities for members.
WiGH organizes networking events and panels about relevant topics in green hydrogen, manage an international expert database, and offer a mentorship programme. They are also active on social media to increase visibility, promote activities and facilitate exchange.
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Links:
Women in Green Hydrogen https://women-in-green-hydrogen.net/
Vattenfall:
https://group.vattenfall.com/
Books by Dr. Mete:
The Energy Transitions and Future of Gas in
the EU: Subsidise or Decarbonise? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32614-2
The Palgrave Handbook of Social License to Operate and Energy Transitions (Palgrave Macmillan,...
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EAH co-hosts Alicia Eastman and Patrick Molloy sat down with Karen Baert, the CEO and co-founder of Ammobia to learn about their high-efficiency innovation of the ammonia production process. We also discussed the role of ammonia and the challenges that clean tech innovators face.
About Karen Baert:
Karen has extensive experience across the sector having completed her Bachelors in Mechanical and Chemical Engineering in Brussels, Master in renewable energy at the Technical University Berlin, and MBA at Stanford University. Karen spent several years at Bain & Co., and worked with Breakthrough Energy Ventures, as well as Stanford GSB Impact fund, before co-founding Ammobia. Karen and her Co-founder and CTO are taking on the 100 year-old Haber Bosch process by developing their own reactor which offers potential for improved efficiencies in ammonia production with less emissions and lower capex.
About Ammobia:
Ammobia is developing Haber Bosch 2.0 - an innovative low cost, flexible process for clean ammonia production from clean hydrogen and air. They leverage the latest advances in materials science and catalysis to produce clean ammonia at low cost. Their processes and systems work across production scales and modes and they expect:
- to require one third the capex
- increased safety & flexibility (running directly on renewables)
- 80-90% lower emissions
- 10x reduction in pressure
- 150°C reduction in temperature
US-based Ammobia closed an oversubscribed, US$4.2 million funding round in April. Led by Starlight Ventures and including Collaborative Fund, Chevron Technology Ventures, Arosa Capital, Zero Infinity Partners, R7, DNX Ventures and Plug and Play Tech Center, the funds will support a 1000x scale-up of Ammobia’s next-generation synthesis technology.
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Links:
https://www.ammobia.co/
https://ammoniaenergy.org/articles/funding-for-ammonia-energy-startups-in-2024/
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2024/04/03/ammobia-funding-green-ammonia
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EAH co-hosts Alicia Eastman and Patrick Molloy sat down with Amy Hebert, the CEO of Arcadia eFuels and learned more about Arcadia goals to produce future fuels that protect our environment and power the world. Learn more about Arcadia projects in Denmark, the United Kingdom and the United States as well as Project SkyPower, which Amy co-Chairs, paving the way for the first large-scale eSAF plants in Europe to reach Final Investment Decision by the end of 2025.
About Amy Hebert:
Amy Hebert has more than 25 years of global industry experience and 12 years in executive leadership focused on the refining, chemical and polymer markets. She has expertise in all aspects of business management including developing and executing long term business strategy while managing overall financial wellbeing; managing joint ventures, new plant construction, and plant expansions from idea, through design and startup. Most recently, she was Deputy CEO and Chief Commercial Officer for Haldor Topsoe, and prior to that Vice President Europe with Celanese and Global Vice President Catalysts at Albemarle.
Amy holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Amy is also a supervisory board member, nomination and audit committee member of specialty chemicals player IMCD (formerly International-Müller Chemical Distribution).
About Arcadia eFuels:
Arcadia eFuels is creating net zero carbon fuels that use existing infrastructure and work in existing engines. Arcadia leverages proven technology in a novel way to meet the significantly outpaced market demand.
Arcadia intends to build multiple plants that will each produce 80,000 tons (100 million liters or 28 million gallons) of eFuels per year.
Specifically, Arcadia will produce eDiesel and electro sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) to power the hard to abate long haul transportation sectors such as aviation and shipping.
Beginning with renewable electricity, Arcadia will make green hydrogen, then combine carbon dioxide from direct air capture and/or other biogenic carbon sources to produce syngas. Further processing produces carbon neutral eFuels such as eSaf, eDiesel, eNaptha, and LPG.
The carbon neutral eFuels can be used by existing cars, trucks, ships, and airplanes as a complete replacement for fossil fuels.
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Links:
www.arcadiaefuels.com
www.project-skypower.org
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This week on EAH we have the CEO of C2X. Producing green fuels is no easy business, and among the many challenges, finding that elusive offtake often ranks high on the investor concern list. But C2X is a little different. Backed by A.P. Moller Holdings, the company has a unique understanding of how to find compelling commercial propositions for customers.
C2X is also a leader in the development of new large scale green methanol projects. Starting with their flagship project in Louisiana, the company looks to develop projects with both biofuel based green methanol and e-methanol derived from electrolysis and biogenic CO2. This provides a unique perspective on both old and new technologies for green fuel production, and how to close the gap.
As our first EAH episode dedicated to green methanol (and its role in fuels like SAF), we couldn’t have found someone better!
About Brian Davis:
Before joining C2X as CEO in July 2023, Brian enjoyed a 32-year international career at Shell including assignments as SVP of Global Energy Solutions, Head of Corporate Strategy for the Shell Group and SVP of Shell Chemicals. After leaving Shell he served as EVP and Chief Commercial Officer for Marathon Petroleum Corporation based in San Antonio, Texas. More recently, he was a senior advisor to multiple companies around the world focused on scaling up solutions to accelerate the energy transition.
Brian earned a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia. He has lived and worked in Australia, the UK, the USA, Turkey, The Netherlands, and Barbados.
About C2X:
C2X focuses on scaling up the production of affordable green methanol to facilitate transition to use of renewable fuels and renewable chemicals across multiple industries.
Links:
C2X - www.c2xglobal.com
Maersk - www.maersk.com
A.P. Moller Holdings - www.apmoller.com
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In light of exciting positive policy developments in Australia and the impact on domestic and export sales of green electrons, hydrogen, and ammonia; the EAH team speaks with Isaac Hinton, Head of Australia for InterContinental Energy (ICE), a global pioneer in large-scale green hydrogen development. Isaac unpacks the ‘Future Made in Australia Act’, other Federal and Statewide government initiatives and their impact on the green hydrogen industry. He delved into the positive ramifications for InterContinental Energy projects in Western Australia (WGEH and AREH), and overall Company leadership, partnership and activities intended to truly move the decarbonization needle.
About Isaac Hinton:
Isaac is the Head of Australia for InterContinental Energy, a global pioneer in large-scale green hydrogen development, now in its 11th year with mega-projects in Western Australia and Oman.
Isaac oversees the Company's strategic initiatives, activities, and partnerships in Australia, supporting long-term growth and project implementation. Isaac also chairs the consortia developing the Western Green Energy Hub (WGEH) and the Australian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH).
With a career spanning two decades in energy and resources, including over a decade at BHP in various senior roles across Sales, Procurement, Finance and Operations; coupled with his leadership in key Australian green energy initiatives, Isaac brings a wealth of expertise and insight to the renewable energy landscape.
About InterContinental Energy:
InterContinental Energy (‘ICE’) is an industry leader, with three flagship projects attracting partnerships from energy giants such as Shell, bp, and KEPCO. The company's innovative approach has gained support from major institutional investors such as one of the largest sovereign wealth funds GIC of Singapore, and the largest hydrogen only fund, Hy24. Beyond project development, it has emerged as a leading technology provider through its patented Power to Hydrogen nodal innovation, P2(H₂)NodeTM.
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Links:
Intercontinental Energy
https://www.intercontinentalenergy.com
EPA Release
https://intercontinentalenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/20241125-EPA-media-release-FINAL.-Header.pdf
Western Green Energy Hub
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Green_Energy_Hub
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Back by popular demand, Christopher Jackson, Alicia Eastman, and Patrick Molloy speak about the industry highlights and lowlights, expectations for 2025 and what we can do to improve outcomes across the board. Equal parts sweepingly generalist and mind numbing minutiae create the perfect pundit cocktail. Wallow in the bad news and celebrate the bright sides together!
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Links:
https://www.eahpod.com
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The EAH team discuss Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF), chemicals, plastics and the route to hydrogen at scale with Andrew Symes of OXCCU.
About Andrew Symes:
Climate Tech investor and entrepreneur Andrew Symes is focused on net zero technologies. He helped spin out the company and led the first investment round from IP Group in 2021 before joining as CEO in 2022. He was previously Investment Director at IP Group (now Kiko Ventures), an Associate at BP Ventures, and held commercial roles in the BP commodity trading business.
Andrew has a first-class Masters degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford.
About OXCCU:
OXCCU combines CO2 with H2 and renewable electricity to create sustainable fuels and materials such as Electrolytic Sustainable Aviation Fuel (eSAF), chemicals and plastics.
They have developed cutting-edge technological processes and catalysts that could revolutionise the way we produce fuels, chemicals, and biodegradable plastics. They combine CO2 from a variety of sustainable sources with H2 and renewable electricity, resulting in a sustainable and environmentally-friendly energy solution.
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Links:
OXCCU
https://www.oxccu.com/about
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The EAH team sits down with power pioneer Marco Dell’Aquila, Patient Zero of the hydrogen bug. Under his tutelage, Andrew Leedom, Patrick Molloy and Chris Jackson were motivated to launch their successful and rewarding careers in hydrogen. Alicia Eastman has also found inspiration and an excellent lunch time raconteur.
About Marco Dell’Aquila:
Marco is an investor, adviser, developer, author and professor with nearly 35 years experience in the energy sector. He is currently the Chief Investment Officer at Protium and he co-founded and chairs Power Capital. Marco is also a Senior Adjunct Professor of Energy, Resources and Environment at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies and the co-founder of Inspiratia.
He co-founded Infrastructure Journal (now IJ Global) in 1997. In the 1990s, he was an Executive Director of General Electric Capital’s projects group based in London, developing and investing in energy projects in the EMEA region.
Professor Dell'Aquila has taught at SAIS since 2011 and is a member of the SAIS Europe Advisory Council. As Chairman of inspiratia and previously IJGlobal, Dell’Aquila has spent 25 years as an author and commentator on the evolution of energy and infrastructure markets, as well as regulation and emerging technologies to combat climate change. He has also advised on numerous energy transactions around the world spanning virtually all forms of cleantech and renewables.
Marco has a BSc (Tech) in Civil and Structural Engineering from the University of Manchester and an MA in International Relations and Economics from SAIS.
About Power Capital
Power Capital is a financial advisory firm which has won mandates of corpus €13 billion since 1997.
About Inspiratia
UK based Energy and Infrastructure data & analysis provider.
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Links
Protium: https://protium.green/team/
Inspiratia: https://inspiratia.com/
SAIS: https://sais.jhu.edu/
Power Capital: https://www.powercapital.ie/
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EAH spoke with Miguel, after a little over a year in the CEO post, to understand where the group is heading. He describes his plans for the Company and in particular, the DeCarbon Technologies Group, which is working with many important partners to accelerate emissions elimination innovation.
About Miguel López Borrego:
Miguel began his professional career in 1987 as a controller at VDO AG. He was subsequently CFO of VDO Instrumentos in Spain and the worldwide VDO Instrument Division. Within the Siemens Group, López was CFO of various business units of Siemens AG from 2001 – including the Industry Automation Division from 2008, the Digital Factory Division from 2014 and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy from 2017. In the years from 2018 to 2022, he was President & CEO of Siemens in Spain. During this period, he also performed the role of Non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors at Siemens Gamesa. From 2022 to May 2023, he held the position of Chairman of the Board of NORMA, an automotive and industrial supplier. Since June 2023 he has been CEO of thyssenkrupp AG.
Miguel studied business administration at the Mannheim University of Cooperative Education. López also completed a global MBA program at the universities of Toronto (Canada), Erftstadt (Germany), Linz (Austria) and Shanghai (China).
About thyssenkrupp:
thyssenkrupp is an international industrial and technology company employing ~100,000 people. Across 48 countries it generated sales of €38 billion in fiscal 2022/2023. Since October 1, 2023, the business activities have been bundled into five segments: Automotive Technology, Decarbon Technologies, Materials Services, Steel Europe and Marine Systems. Backed by extensive technological know-how, the businesses develop cost-effective and resource-friendly solutions to the challenges of the future. Around 4,000 employees work in research and development at 75 locations all over the world, mainly in the fields of climate protection, the energy transition, digital transformation in the industry and mobility of the future. thyssenkrupp currently has a portfolio of approximately 14,630 patents and utility models. Under the thyssenkrupp umbrella brand the company creates long-term value with innovative products, technologies and services and contributes to a better life for future generations.
To this end, the company pursues ambitious climate protection targets and optimizes its own energy and climate efficiency. At the same time, it uses its diverse abilities along the relevant value chains to play a significant role in driving forward its customers’ green transformation. thyssenkrupp is listed in the MDAX index. thyssenkrupp shares are traded on Frankfurt Stock Exchange (symbol: TKA) and as American depositary receipts (symbol: TKAMY) in the USA.
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Links:
thyssenkrupp:
https:/www.thyssenkrupp.com/en/home
thyssenkrupp DeCarbon Technologies:
https://www.thyssenkrupp.com/en/company/corporate-structure/decarbon-technologies
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The team sits down with Gene Gebolys CEO and founder of World Energy to discuss his and World Energy's journey to producing sustainable fuels and their plans in the hydrogen space.
About Gene Gebolys:
Gene Gebolys is the founder and CEO of World Energy. For over 25 years, World Energy has been at the forefront of commercializing renewable fuels and was the world’s first commercial-scale sustainable aviation fuel producer.
Today, World Energy is investing over $15 billion into major new projects in California, Texas, and Newfoundland to help leaders accelerate their efforts to make net-zero real. Gene launched World Energy to accelerate the commercialization of alternatives to fossil-based motor fuels and has played a leading role in building today’s global biofuels industry. Under Gene’s leadership, World Energy is currently undergoing a $2.5 billion dollar conversion project at its Los Angeles facility that will convert the facility into a 100% renewable production hub. The Los Angeles project is the model for World Energy’s Houston facility conversion, currently underway. Once complete, the LA and Houston facilities will allow World Energy to produce a total of 500 million gallons of SAF by 2026.
World Energy:
World Energy is a low-carbon solutions provider focused on helping the world's leading companies make their net-zero commitments real. Our solutions Include sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel, and renewable naphtha, with plans to create renewable propane and green hydrogen.
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Links:
Announcement of World Energy’s SAF certificate insets deal with BCG (5/7/24) https://www.worldenergy.net/bcg
The Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance (SABA) announcement from April aggregating 20 corporate buyers for a $200 million investment in the SAF industry via SAFc.
More about World Energy: https://www.worldenergy.net/
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The team sits down with Rishi Jain to discuss Cross River’s marquee wind, hydro, nuclear, hydrogen, ammonia project in the revitalized heavy industrial Port of Belledune, New Brunswick, Canada.
About Rishi Jain:
Rishi is a Partner and Managing Director at Cross River Infrastructure Partners. He leads the hydrogen and nuclear business development activities of the firm and is responsible for all aspects of project origination. Rishi also manages commercial processes, stakeholder relations, is closely involved with financial structuring of projects, and is the lead for strategic partner relationships.
Prior to joining Cross River, Rishi was a special situations and macro analyst at Great Oaks Capital Management, focused on energy, natural resources, and industry. Rishi also originated and managed the firm’s earlier stage investments in new industrial clean-tech and clean-resource companies.
Rishi is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and also completed the Chartered Financial Analyst program.
About Cross River Infrastructure Partners:
Cross River is an early-stage developer of clean energy infrastructure including clean fuels production such as clean industrial-scale hydrogen and ammonia production via water electrolysis, as well as nuclear and renewable power generation. Within nuclear, Cross River is focused on development of advanced nuclear projects, deploying generation IV SMRs for industrial CHP and hydrogen, as well as medical and industrial radioisotope production. The group also develops wind, solar and storage solutions primarily for upstream green hydrogen and green industrial production.
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Links:
https://crossriverip.com/
https://www.portbelledune.ca/green-energy-hub/green-hydrogen-project
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Co-hosts Chris Jackson and Alicia Eastman had the pleasure to interview Bart White of Santander Corporate and Investment Banking (SCIB). The discussion was mostly regarding optimizing different bespoke tools to accelerate the energy transition with some case examples provided by Bart. After the interview, Patrick Molloy stepped in to unpack and discuss some of the wide-ranging topics with the same rigor we have come to expect.
About Bart White:
Bart runs the SCIB Energy financing activities across EMEA and parts of Latin America. The team is primarily focused on financing and advisory for Renewables where Santander has ranked #1 in 2022, 2023 and 2024 YTD Europe). They are also involved in Hydrogen, CCS, BESS, Biogas, and other tangential subsectors such as EfW and Smart Meters.
Previously, Bart ran the Santander UK and Nordics structured finance business, and before that he led the Santander European structured finance advisory practise. Bart has also worked at UBS leading their EMEA Utilities and Infrastructure Finance business, as well as RBS. Bart holds an MA in Physics from the University of Oxford.
About SCIB:
In 2023, Santander CIB was named global leader in export finance for the second year running and ended the year In 2023 as the world's leader in export finance, with transactions amounting to US$13.2 billion and a market share of 12.1%.
The bank’s global scale and local knowledge of the sectors and markets where its clients operate has ensured Santander’s position on top of the ranking published by Dealogic, one of the most widely used tools for analysing the performance, trends, activity and market share of financial institutions.
With this positioning, the Group demonstrates its ability to meet client needs globally in a tough landscape. Santander CIB reached the first position in Europe and is among the top 10 in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.
Credit insurance from ECAs and other multilateral institutions is one of the main means of financial support for international expansion. It helps companies obtain financing through specialised products with competitive terms and conditions that are tailored to their needs and mitigate the risks that their cross-border activities can pose.
In recent years, Santander CIB has been developing its Export & Agency Finance (EAF) business, with the spotlight on import and export clients. It has contributed to the design of innovative products hand in hand with ECAs, combining global and local origination and structuring capabilities that underpin the franchise's success.
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Links:
www.santandercib.com
https://www.santandercib.com/press-room/santander-cib-named-global-leader-export-finance-second-year-running
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Co-hosts Patrick Molloy, Chris Jackson, and Alicia Eastman speak with Alfa Laval’s Tue Johannessen about the company’s role in the energy transition, and more specifically about involvement in hard-to-abate sectors where hydrogen is a key building block, as well as how a new Business Unit for Electrolyzer & Fuel Cell Technologies will help bend the cost curve for green hydrogen.
About Tue Johannessen:
Tue has a long track record in chemical engineering, CleanTech, sustainability, innovation, and business development.
He earned his PhD from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 1998 and spent some time in academic and entrepreneurial roles. Research in ammonia storage led to co-founding a CleanTech start-up in 2006 as CTO - operating in the automotive emissions control sector. His work with ammonia continued at Maersk as the R&D lead which would become the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping. He led the modeling efforts including all relevant fuel pathways and vessel technologies built into a comprehensive techno-economic tool, NavigaTE, allowing for analyzing and building maritime transition strategies.
In 2022, he joined the Alfa Laval Energy Division in a business development role focused on Fuel Cells & P2X. Since January 2024, he is now VP in the newly established Business Unit for Electrolyzer & Fuel Cell Technologies heading Strategy and Partnerships.
Fun fact: Tue is an inventor and in addition to other patents and IP, he and colleagues from DTU were awarded EPO’s European Inventor Award in 2016.
About Alfa Laval:
The Company was founded 140 years ago, with customers in over 100 countries, employing more than 21,300 people. Annual sales in 2023 were SEK 63.6 billion (~5.5 billion Euros). The company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
Alfa Laval is dedicated to helping billions of people to get the energy, food, and clean water they need, while eliminating emissions in the marine fleet, the backbone of global trade.
The company is committed to optimizing processes, creating responsible growth, and driving progress to support customers in achieving their business goals and sustainability targets.
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Links:
www.alfalaval.com
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Patrick Malloy, Alicia Eastman, and Chris Jackson speak with Topsoe CEO Roeland Baan about new technologies and new projects, leveraging his expansive background and the assets of an 84 year old science and innovation institution, to tackle climate change.
About Roeland Baan:
Roeland joined Topsoe as President and CEO in 2020 with a clear focus on establishing the company as a leader in technologies and solutions for the energy transition. He is heading the company’s nearly 3,000 employees across a dozen countries to rewrite the future of fuels production.
Roeland engages in dialogues and forums with other key opinion leaders to identify and deploy solutions that enable the global energy transition. He often shares his perspectives on matters ranging from decarbonization of energy-intensive industries to electrolyzer capacity, new technologies that support carbon emission reductions, and the challenges and regulatory frameworks needed to achieve a fair and inclusive green energy transition.
Roeland has more than 40 years of experience developing businesses, supporting customer relationships, driving growth, building cohesive organizations and amassing deep operational and strategic knowledge across the energy, fuel and steel industries. Prior to joining Topsoe, he was President and CEO of Outokumpu, a producer of stainless steel, and before that CEO of rolled and extruded products at aluminum manufacturer Aleris. Roeland also held leadership positions at Arcelor Mittal, SHV NV and Shell.
He serves as Chairman of SBM Offshore NV and is member of the Syensqo Board of Directors and the Hydrogen Council Board.
Roeland earned an M.S. in economics from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
About Topsoe:
Topsoe is a leading global provider of technology and solutions for the energy transition. They combat climate change by helping customers and partners achieve their decarbonization and emission reduction goals.
Based on decades of scientific research and innovation, they offer world leading solutions for transforming renewable resources into fuels and chemicals for a sustainable world, and for efficient and low-carbon fuel production as well as clean air.
Haldor Topsoe founded the company in 1940 and with headquarters in Denmark, Topsoe has nearly 3,000 employees serving customers all around the globe.
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Links:
Topsoe
https://www.topsoe.com/
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This week’s episode is a discussion between EAH hosts Patrick Molloy, Alicia Eastman, and Chris Jackson. The team cover the current status of hydrogen regulation, innovation, financing, markets, and consolidation. Hanging over most conversations in the decarbonization or future fuels space, is the perpetual question: When will investors actually step up with significant capital to help companies make it through the development desert, instead of letting promising companies languish in the double dunes of despair? There has been a lot of talk, but not a lot of action. Listen to the team unpack recent developments and hopes for the future.
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This week, the EAH team speaks with Jan Haizmann, one of the founders of the Zero Emissions Traders Alliance (ZETA) and an energy trading veteran expanding the enabling market tools and structures in Europe to the MENA region in order to facilitate exchange with the global market for net zero energy carriers like hydrogen and derivatives.
About Jan Haizmann:
Jan Haizmann is a qualified lawyer who has spent most of his career focused on building energy markets. In parallel, he established a boutique consulting group, Correggio NET, now based in Dubai. The European Commission has used Jan’s services since 2010 to help build new energy market structures.
Jan and Paul Van Son, the Chairman of Dii Desert Energy and ZETA, originally met in 1999 when Paul was the CEO of a Dutch utility. Together, they set out to build an energy wholesale market in Europe. They channeled this through the European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET). They built the association from scratch reaching 150 companies from 25 countries and became a key partner for the European Commission. Paul was the chairman of EFET until 2012, and Jan was one of the four key staff in the venture, as well as Board member for 15 years.
Jan left EFET last year to set up the Dutch not-for profit foundation - Zero Emissions Traders Association (ZETA) with Dii Desert Energy including Paul and CEO Cornelius Matthes as well as Frank Wouters who leads MENA Hydrogen Alliance. Recognizing the market potential for sustainable energy in the GCC and more general MENA region, the group believes that the climate transition must be accelerated through market tools, in order to give proper credit for reduction and elimination of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.
About ZETA
Founded in 2023, ZETA develops market tools to assist traders, regional producers, exporters, and investors in carbon-neutral projects, as well as off-takers in the MENA region and beyond. By enabling local companies to hedge market risks from long-term contracts, ZETA makes sustainable investments safer and stimulates new investment.
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Links:
Zero Emissions Traders Alliance (ZETA)
https://www.zeta-global.org/
Dii Desert Energy
https://dii-desertenergy.org/
CorreggioNET
https://www.correggionet.eu/
European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET) renamed Energy Traders Europe
https://www.efet.org
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This week Alicia and Patrick speak with Adamo Screnci from NextChem.
About Adamo:
Adamo is Vice President of Sustainable Technology Solutions at NextChem, where he has coordinated several mergers and acquisitions involving extensive intellectual property and related patents.
Previously, Adamo was Vice President of the newly created Clean Hydrogen Business Unit at Total Energies where he was involved with decarbonization efforts such as Masshylia and Hy24.
Adamo built the Green H2 & Green Chemical business line at thyssenkrupp (Nucera) and helped large projects like NEOM design their green hydrogen strategies. Before that, he was the co-founder of McPhy Energy, a start-up in the field of energy and adviser to CEA Liten's CEO, in order to build the national hydrogen roadmap for the Ministry of Environment in France.
Adamo began his career as an engineer for ELF Atochem and Siegwerk as well as Air Liquide where he quickly moved from a project management position to the management of a unit before becoming Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
Adamo holds an MA in Engineering, Process, Electrochemistry, and Energy from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble and is a graduate of the INSEAD International Development Program. He is a Board Member of MENA Hydrogen Alliance and a Member of World Hydrogen Leaders.
About NextChem:
NextChem is a subsidiary of MAIRE group dedicated to sustainable technology solutions. Leveraging their expertise in nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon capture, fuels, chemicals, and polymers, they deliver solutions and processes to enable the energy transition. Since the 1970s, the MAIRE Group has been dedicated to developing and offering technology solutions, processes, basic engineering designs, as well as proprietary equipment and catalysts, to drive global decarbonization efforts. They offer solutions which utilize business synergies and cross-fertilization opportunities within the Group, drawing from an array of specialist skillsets.
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Links:
https://www.nextchem.it/en/
http://linkedin.com/in/adamoscrenci
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