APRIL 5

9:30 (CET)

When setting ambitious goals for the energy transition, we assign a large role to decarbonized molecules, designed to push aside and phase out fossil fuels and offer them an alternative.

Biogas and hydrogen are the leaders in this scope of technologies, and it is no coincidence that they are experiencing such a boom. However, the hype around them also has a downside - it is difficult to understand how mature the technologies are, what the real challenges for their development are, what we need to focus our efforts on right now, and what volumes we can count on in the future.

Our speakers

Dr. Kirsten Westphal is a Member of the General Executive Management Board of BDEW, the German Association of Energy and Water Industries.
Prior to this position, she was Director at H2Global Stiftung, leading the independent Analysis & Research Division. Kirsten is a Member of the National Hydrogen Council.

Between 2008 and 2021, she worked at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP). She headed the project “Geopolitics of Energy Transformation – Hydrogen”, funded by the Federal Foreign Office, where she now serves as an external advisor. She was a Member of the Expert Panel to the Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation in 2018-2019 and contributed to the Commission’s Report “A New World”, published in 2019. She has published widely on international energy relations and EU external energy relations.

Tatiana is a research fellow at CGEP, Columbia University, a Professor at SciencesPo Paris, and Founder and Director of the New Energy Advancement Hub (NEAH).

Ph.D. in Economics, 30 years of experience in energy markets research, and profound knowledge of energy transition - new energy technologies, market organization, and corporate strategies.