hydrogen

8 min.
Tjisse Stelpstra, Regional Minister of the Province of Drenthe, the Netherlands, offers an invitation to join policymakers and investors at EU Sustainable Energy Week to discuss the Northern Nether-lands’s plans to build a hydrogen economy13/June/2019

Hydrogen: making the energy transition deeper and cheaper
6 min.
On the same day that another earthquake hit Groningen, a province in the Northern Netherlands, our region was present in Lyon, France, to launch a new European Hydrogen Valleys Partnership that will help regions like ours achieve a full transition from natural gas to green hydrogen, says regional minister of the Province of Groningen Patrick Brouns31/May/2019

Hydrogen: the new business model for our region
4 min.
Reducing carbon dioxide emissions is the main driver of the energy transition, supported by the large-scale expansion of wind and solar energy production, writes Marcel Eijgelaar, researcher at DNV GL. Due to the variable output of these renewables, maintaining the balance between supply and demand is becoming more challenging with a higher need for grid flexibility and more volatile prices on electricity markets. New solutions are emerging, from battery storage to hydrogen electrolysis24/May/2019

New applications for surplus energy
6 min.
The Dutch provinces of Groningen and Drenthe have drawn up a €2.8 billion plan to turn their region into a “hydrogen valley” and be a springboard for the hydrogen economy globally, explains Ulco Vermeulen, Director Business Development at Gasunie03/May/2019

Hydrogen: the Northern Netherlands is ready
8 min.
European policymakers are convinced, the energy transition cannot rely on electrification alone. “Molecules” will be needed, but the new molecules will not be based on natural gas, and there will be a lot less of them11/March/2019

Will Nord Stream 2 be the last great European gas pipeline?
9-10 min.
Trucks and ships could be two means of transport running on hydrogen gas, produced using electricity, in the coming years28/November/2018

Hydrogen makes its case as a niche clean transport option