Hydrogen+. Could you introduce us to Horizons Hydrogène?
Geraldine Trapp. Horizons Hydrogène has become in 2021 the new meeting and the highlight of the end of the year for players in the hydrogen sector. More than 900 participants were present during this second edition, allowing a conference rich and intense in exchanges and business engagements.
This second edition, the congress aimed to become a real place of exchange and expertise between industrialists, expert-researchers, project leaders, public and private investors, consultants, institutions, utilities and energy companies, to thus position themselves as a major annual meeting for hydrogen professionals. Six hundred professionals and 80 speakers of high level and expertise representing the main market players were present at the plenary conference platform as well as on our three stages in thematic rooms.
What were the themes covered during the conferences?
Development of the French hydrogen sector, geopolitics, regulations, scaling up, ecosystems, etc., many subjects were discussed during these two days.
Furthermore, given the current context of the war in Ukraine, the development potential of the hydrogen market has increased and encourages us to integrate it more consistently into our energy mix, so that it is a real alternative solution to natural gas. .
As for visitors, we welcomed all the players in the hydrogen ecosystem: consumers like Bertrand Walle, Climate and Energy Manager France at Borealis, or Bruno Costes, director of public affairs at Airbus, or even Michael Haddad, director of innovation at Alstom…; institutional players such as Lionel Prevors, hydrogen project manager at DGEC, or Yvan Faucheux, referent commissioner of the CRE Foresight Committee); academics like Laurent Antoni, head of public affairs for hydrogen technologies at the CEA, or Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, director of the Energy & Climate Center at IFRI; hydrogen producers like Adamo Screnci, deputy general manager at Hydrogen Refueling Solutions; transport players like Dominique Mockly, president of Téréga; and storage players like Camille Bonenfant-Jeanneney, general director of Storengy…
In your opinion, what is the place of hydrogen in tomorrow’s mobility?
Hydrogen is increasingly being looked at and studied as an alternative fuel. In terms of projects, many communities and manufacturers are working together to develop mobility uses with buses, boats and hydrogen-powered garbage trucks. For mobility uses to develop, it is necessary to have/develop production locally, but also means of transport and storage of hydrogen.
While last year, the subjects of production and uses were the majority, this year, transport and storage are more in the spotlight. For the sector to truly develop, all links in the chain must move at the same pace. ′
More information on: www.horizons-hydrogene.com
