Watch the recording of the HyValue Webinar 23 January 2024 here.

Agenda 

14:00-14:05 Welcome

• Per Ove Eikeland, Senior Researcher, Fridtjof Nansen Institute

14:05-14:30 Public finance of hydrogen by EU institutions – the Innovation fund and the European Hydrogen Bank

• Johanna Schiele, Policy Officer Innovation Fund, European Commission, DG Clima. 

Overview of EU funding programs and mechanisms (for projects at different TRLs), followed by a more specific focus on the EU Innovation Fund and the new European Hydrogen Bank auctions run under the Innovation Fund. This will include auction design, eligibility etc.  
 

14:30-14:55 Public finance in Norway – Enova’s role in promoting hydrogen

• Sigmund Ø. Størset, Senior Market advisor, Enova 

Overview of Norwegian public funding institutions and programmes, followed by a more specific focus on the role of Enova, including funds, eligibility and future plans. 

14:55-15:20 Matching public and private finance – ‘on the ground’- experiences

• Esmeralda Colombo, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc at the European Institute on Economics and the Environment, Policy and Public Funding Manager for renewable energy and green hydrogen investor Smartenergy Italy Srl. 

15:20-16:00 Q&A

• Moderator, Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen 

Please sign up and join the webinar here: Teams HyValue Webinar 23 January 2024.

Invited speakers:  

Johanna Schiele is a Policy Officer at the EU Commission, DG CLIMA. She works on designing and implementing EU-wide auctions for renewable hydrogen production at the EU Innovation Fund, under the umbrella of the EU Hydrogen Bank. Previous to joining the Commission, Johanna worked in the power sector and as a researcher on auctions and clean tech funding. She holds a BA from Oxford University and an MPA from Harvard University.  
 

Sigmund Ø. Størset is Senior Market advisor at Enova SF, with the main responsibility for hydrogen and hydrogen projects within Enova. He joined Enova in 2020, and has previously worked almost 10 years in SINTEF within energy research, with special emphasis on hydrogen and CCS technologies. Størset holds and MSc within nanotechnology from NTNU, and a Master of Technology management from NTNU and the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).
 

Esmeralda Colombo is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc at the European Institute on Economics and the Environment with a project on access to finance for renewable energy storage, while also working as a Policy and Public Funding Manager for renewable energy and green hydrogen investor Smartenergy Italy Srl. Her academic work on climate-related financial risk was quoted by the IPCC in 2022 and she started four startups in the sustainability space. PhD (UiB); FDCE (Yale); LLMs (Columbia Law and the College of Europe); JD (Milan Catholic University). 

The HyValue Centre will in the next eight years conduct research and innovation activities aimed at technology development in production, transport, distribution and end-use of hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives; legislative developments, finance and business models needed for accelerating hydrogen; and the study of policy development processes tied to carving out a role for hydrogen in the ongoing climate- and energy transition in Europe. HyValue is led by the major Norwegian research institution NORCE and brings together over 50 national and international partners from research, industry, and the public sector.  The Euro 40 million project is co-funded by the National Research Council of Norway and partners in research, industry and that together represent full value hydrogen chains for hydrogen with linkages to projects and industrial value chains under development in the EU.

For practical questions, please contact Anna Valberg, e-mail: avalberg@fni.no