In the afternoon, the Royal Couple visits NTNU's campus at Gløshaugen. Norwegian and Dutch stakeholders meet to discuss cooperation in energy conversion, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen. They will be given a tour of laboratories related to NTNU's and SINTEF's energy research, as well as participate in a panel discussion on the energy transition.
Background
Norway and the Netherlands face many of the same challenges related to climate change and the clean energy transition. Both countries pursue ambitious climate policies and focus on developing innovative new technologies that can be used with clean and sustainable sources of energy. The Netherlands and Norway are working together on the development of sustainable hydrogen and on CO2 capture, usage and storage. Norwegian knowledge of offshore oil and gas extraction can be used for the development of offshore wind energy and CO2 storage. The production of green hydrogen from renewable sources and sustainable energy at sea is an example of how the Netherlands and Norway are working together on the sustainable use of the North Sea.
Energy lab tour: Nature-Inspired Engineering Design in Hydrogen
NTNU is Norway’s largest university, and specializes in technology and sciences. In the Energy Lab of the NTNU, the royals will receive a short demonstration by NTNU students and SINTEF researchers of three research projects thematically related to the panel debate. The projects will take the royals on a ‘hydrogen journey’ from molecule to end use.
Energy Lab
Energy lab tour: Nature-Inspired Engineering Design in Hydrogen
Stand A: Hydrogen production. Chemical reactor design – inspired by nature.
Expert in renewable energy. Former pro-rector for innovation at NTNU. Supervised 40 Master students and 12 PhD candidates. Opponent to 18 PhD thesis: 7 at NTNU, 3 at Lund (Sweden), 1 at Chalmers (Sweden), 1 at Laapeenranta (Finland), 1 at Åbo Akademi (Finland) 1 at TU Vienna (Austria) and 4 at DTU (Denmark).
Panel debate
During the State Visit a panel discussion on the North Sea as a platform for energy transition will take place. The discussion will focus on hydrogen and adjacent technologies (CCS, offshore wind) in the North Sea. It will deal with the cooperation potential in the North Sea from a value chain perspective, and touch on how existing infrastructure can give an impetus to wider bilateral cooperation on the energy transition. The panel is made up of representatives from government, science and industry from both the Netherlands and Norway.
The discussion will take place in the Council Chamber of the NTNU main building dating from 1910. In the audience, we find students from NTNU’s technical study programmes, representatives from industry (who will also participate in a networking side event on 12 November) and members of the Royal delegation.
Dep.Professor, Principal Investigator of PoreLab Center of Excellence
Signe has strong ties to the Netherlands both on a professional and on a private level. She has been a professor at TU Delft for 9 years, has published an international bestseller with a Dutchman, speaks fluent Dutch and is married to a Dutchman.
Claire Hooft Graafland
Senior Energy Advisor RVO Hydrogen Platform (Netherlands Entreprise Agency) (NL)
René Peters
Business
Director Gas Technology, TNO (NL)
Martijn Coopman
Programme Manager Energy Transition Port of Rotterdam (NL)
Magnus Ankarstrand
President for Clean Ammonia, Yara (NOR)
Martijn Smit,
Business Development Director, Northern Lights (NOR)
Stream
Part of the program will be streamed with a high quality production. The video stream is free online during the presentation (in real time), and you can access it after the program has taken place.
During the panel debate "The North Sea as a platform for the Green Energy Transition", the digital audience can send in questions in the chat for the Q&A session.
