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Green hydrogen is going to play an important role in the energy transition. Europe does not have enough potential to produce that hydrogen itself. A significant part will have to come from sunny regions. The technologies for it exist, but building supply chains can be done in several ways.

Developments have not only technical but also (geo)political consequences. To seize the opportunities, problems must be overcome and obstacles removed. Due to the unequal balance of power between industrialised countries and the mostly poorer desert countries, exploitation lurks. The oil and gas industry has proven that.

The speaker will discuss the need to import green hydrogen for industry and outline possible supply chains. European and Dutch policies on this part of the energy transition will then be discussed, including the position of developing countries in possible supplies.

The speaker Sietse de Haan is president of the Association for Solar Power Plants and representative of the Desertec Foundation in the Netherlands, see www.desertec.org. He was a physics teacher and in addition to his job he has always been active in the field of the environment and for the last 20 years specifically in the field of climate and energy transition