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Toward Hydrogen - R&D Priorities to Create a Hydrogen Infrastructure
 
Location and date(s) of workshop:
IEA, Paris: 3 March 2003
   
Organiser(s): IEA
   
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Workshop Summary


 
Proceedings: Claude Mandil, Executive Director, IEA

Keynote Session: Visions of a Pathway to the Hydrogen Economy

Moderator: Graham Campbell, Director-General, Office of Energy Research & Development, Natural Resources Canada

US Hydrogen Roadmap
Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy (via recorded tape)

Germany's Hydrogen Vision
Gerd Eisenbeiss, Member of the Board of Directors, FZ Jülich, Germany

Hydrogen Plan of Iceland
Baldur Pétursson, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and Jon Bjorn Skulason, General Manager, Icelandic New Energy Ltd., Iceland

Japan's Hydrogen Vision
Toshiaki Abe, Director General, Hydrogen Energy Systems Technology Development Department, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan

Towards a Hydrogen Economy
Michael D. Jones, Manager Hydrogen Technology, BP

The Italian Hydrogen National Programs: strategies, resources, perspectives
Raffaele Vellone, Director Hydrogen Program of Italy, ENEA, Italy

European Union's Hydrogen Vision
Angel Perez-Sainz, Head of Unit "Energy Production and Distribution Systems", Research Directorate General, European Commission

Session 2: From Where Will the Hydrogen Come?

Moderator: Wiktor Raldow, Head of Unit "Renewable Energies", Research Directorate General, European Commission Fossil Fuels
Anne Marit Hansen, Hydrogen Business Unit, Norsk Hydro, Norway

BioEnergy
Kyriakos Maniatis, IEA Bioenergy Implementing Agreement, DG TREN, European Commission

Renewables
Aldo Steinfeld, Paul Scherrer Institute, IEA SolarPACES Implementing Agreement, Switzerland

Nuclear (fission an fusion)
Masuro Ogawa, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) Japan

Session 3: Hydrogen Infrastructure and End-use

Moderator: Robert Dixon, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, US Department of Energy

Storage and Distrubution
Andreas Züttel, Professor, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Utilisation (Fuel cells and ICEs)
Lars Sjunnesson, Corporate R&D and Environment, Sydkraft AB, Sweden

Hydrogen and Transportation - Alternative Scenarios
Carmen Difiglio, Head of the Energy Technology Policy Division, International Energy Agency

Session 4: Cutting Edge Technologies R&D

Moderator: Willem van der Heul, Ministry of Economic Affairs, The Netherlands

Nano Technology
Keith Karasek and Pierre Dreux, Altran Corporation, USA

Conversion Technologies
Trygve Riis, The Research Council of Norway

Session 5: International Co-operation and Policy Roundtable

Moderator: Marianne Haug, Director, IEA Energy Efficiency Technology, R&D Office

US-EU bilateral co-operation
Angel Perez-Sainz, Head of the Unit, Research Directorate General, European Commission

IEA Hydrogen Implementing Agreement
Trygve Riis, The Research Council of Norway

WE-NET
Toshiaki Abe, Director General, Hydrogen Energy Systems Technology Development Department, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan

White Paper on a Hydrogen Action Plan
Robert Dixon, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, US Department of Energy

Closing remarks Roberto Vigotti, Chair, REWP