Port of Amsterdam
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On Thursday afternoon, 18 April, the NVRB will visit the Port of Amsterdam. A location facing many current challenges. How do they deal with role in energy transition? How do they deal with safety with intensive and large shipping in a highly built-up environment? KIVI members are cordially invited to this excursion.
The Amsterdam port has traditionally been an energy port and has the ambition to remain so in the future. The port is currently still the largest petrol port in the world, but has the ambition to phase out fossil fuels and transform into a port for sustainable energy carriers. This offers great opportunities for both existing and new companies. However, to cash in on these opportunities and enable the energy transition, the risk areas in the form of pressure on physical space, limited environmental space, nitrogen issues and lack of capacity on the power grid need to be managed. This excursion will consider two of these risk areas, electricity congestion and limited environmental space.
In the first part of the programme, Reinoud Botman will reflect on electricity congestion and how the port authority and the business community have taken joint steps with the establishment of an energy cooperative. Grid capacity at a number of substations is now insufficient to meet business demand. As a result, companies cannot expand, establish themselves or fulfil their ambitions to become more sustainable. By developing a virtual grid and reaching agreements with Liander, the energy cooperative is helping to make better use of the current grid capacity in the short term.
Energy transition and the move towards a circular economy require space in an area in addition to electricity. An area where, besides industry, there is also a need for more housing, a healthy living environment with quality natural values and a climate-proof layout. Besides sufficient physical space, this also requires attention to sufficient environmental and safety space. In the second part, Lars de Vrij will reflect on the challenges posed by this safeguarding of environmental space, in relation to the use and storage of alternative energy carriers.
PROGRAMME:
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13:30 - 14:00 |
Walk-in |
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14:00 - 15:00 |
Electricity congestion and the Amsterdam port energy cooperative (ECAH) |
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15:00 - 15:30 |
Break |
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15:30 - 16:30 |
Securing environmental space in relation to the application of alternative energy carriers in the port area |
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Following |
Drinks |