in the context of the on-going transformation of the energy market (Power-to-H2, Power-to-gas, biogas)
Unique independent expertise
dedicated to taking advantage of the opportunities offered by hydrogen for enabling the energy transition
The opportunities offered by hydrogen and fuel cell technologies concern numerous components of the energy system as a whole and lie mainly in:
Integration of renewable energy
Provision to the transport sector
of a clean, decarbonated, and readily storable energy carrier (i.e. hydrogen distribution and refueling stations for fuel cell electric vehicles).
Distributed generation
of combined heat and power (by means of stationary fuel cells).
Fields of support
Strategy
- Evaluation of the opportunities offered by hydrogen technologies with regards to strategic objectives, and identification of the conditions that need to be created for their materialization
- Strategic road mapping and identification of critical choices.
Innovation
- Evaluation of new technologies and development road maps
- Formulation of questions requiring the engagement of R&D activities; steering of the latter.
Projects
- Design and development of demonstration projects
- Assistance to contracting authority.
Advancement of standards and policy framework
- Identification of the needed/useful advances in the area of regulations and standards
- Development of approaches and action plans for their achievement; steering and execution of the latter.
H2Nova provides its expertise to industry players (operators, solution providers), investors, local and regional authorities, public bodies involved with the energy transition, and research bodies interested in taking advantage of these opportunities.
Skills and expertise
Frederic Barth provides unique expertise, know-how and perspective derived from 24 years of experience in the expansion or enhancement of industrial gas supply chains, in particular that of Hydrogen, in positions combining operational and technological development responsibilities, with the last 10 years dedicated to the development of hydrogen as an energy carrier, with a specific focus in the last 5 years on international standardization led in conjunction with collaborative research, as well as prominent action in industry associations and advocacy in the European framework.
His field of expertise covers more specifically:
- The role of hydrogen for the transformation of the energy system as a whole
- Hydrogen technologies (in particular production, storage and distribution) and their implementation for the Energy Transition
- The development of collaborative demonstration projects
- International standardization in strategic support of innovation
- Development and steering of collaborative research activities
- Steering of “technology push” innovation, including industrialization
Hydrogen, a key energy carrier for the energy transition
The energy transition, which aims to phase-out fossil energies through their replacement by renewables, including in the transport sector, entails a massive use of solar and wind power, that only the implementation of a new energy carrier, hydrogen, can make possible.
Indeed, hydrogen – in association with fuel cells – allows the feeding in excellent conditions of energy to the transport sector, which as a result becomes an adaptable outlet for renewable electricity from intermittent sources, providing an unmatchable source of flexibility for maintaining the balance of the electrical grid.
- • Hydrogen production and distribution
- • Energy transition
- • Hydrogen technologies
- • Fuel cells
- • Power-to-gas
- • Renewable energy
- • Innovation
- • Demonstration projects
- • Collaborative research
- • Standardisation and advocacy