Advanced cross-border cluster collaboration

in the field of energy towards an

European Region of Energy Excellence

A presentation by Dr. Koos Lok Eur.Ing. MBA ; Energy Valley mngr Research/Education & internationalisation ;

Prof. Energy & Management at the Hanze University for Applied Sciences Groningen

And Paulien Koostra MSc Senior Project Manager and EU lobby coordinator

lunchcolloquim 2/11/2012

WHAT ARE THE ACTIVITIES

IN THE REGION ?

Conventional energy

15.240 billion euro Energy transition/sustainable energy

6.480 billion euro

Knowledge & Innovation

556 billion euro

Energy Related Investments

Energy Valley Region

Energy Valley Foundation

Gas Hub Concentration of the gas value chain:

exploration, transport and trade

Domestic gas reserves: 1.500 bcm

- Annual gas transport: 80 bcm, > 50% export

- Underground Gas Storage: 8 bcm installed,

Cross border connections - Balgzand Baction/UK

- Gasunie Deutschland

- Nordstream Russia

Power Hub

Cross border connections - NorNed 1 & 2 Norway

- Tennet Germany

- Cobra Denmark

WHAT ARE THE

EU DIMENSIONS ?

EU DIMENSIONS :WHERE DO WE START?

Energy Corridor

Hanseatic League

Governement Companies

NGO’s Science

Hansa Energy Corridor

Cross Border Coöperation

Clusters & Knowledge Institutes

WHAT IS OUR FOCUS ?

Smart Energy

Systems

Bio Based

Energy

Groene

Gasrotonde

Power

Balancing

Energy

Academy

Europe

Co2 re-Use

EU confirmation of the of the Hansa Energy

Corridor USP,s related to Energy System Integration

and formalized networking

Electricity Wind

Power

CO2 Power Plants Decentralized

energy development

PV/Blue Energy/CHP

Biomass

Renewables/

Fossil Gas

Upstream gas production

Underground Gas Storage

Balancing

Legal

Issues/social

acceptance Decentralized

energy

development

Flexinet/ clean

mobility

W.L. Kling. Intelligence in Power Networks (adjusted by author Dr. Koos Lok Eur.Ing MBA). Inaugural address at Eindhoven University of

Technology, the Netherlands (in Dutch), 2002.

LNG

SOME OF OUR INTEGRATED

SYSTEM PROJECTS !

Power

Coal

Biomass

Gas storage

Direct

solar

HRe

Import/Export

Groen Gas

Wind Offshore

Industry

Biomass Manure

Torrefactie

Vergassing

Bio syn gas

BioSNG

LNG

Hydrogen

BioLNG

Stroming

Blue Energy

Smart Grids

© 2012, Stichting Energy Valley

Indirect

Biomass & LNG Feedstock

-Organic fraction

-Agricultural waste

-Algae / Weeds

Conversion

-Pyrolyse

-Torrefactie

-Next-gen Biofuels

Green Gas

-Fermentation / Waste Gas

-Gasification / BioSNG

-Green Gas Hubs

Energy Knowledge Hub

Scientific Research & Education - Energy research Centre Netherlands (ECN)

- Energy Delta Gas Research (EDGaR) Program University of Groningen

- Energy Delta Institute. Energy Business School

Centers for Applied Science - Hotspot Sustainable Energy Leeuwarden (NHL / VHI)

- Energy Knowledge Centre Hanze University Groningen

Expert Centers -RenQi Institute for Decentralized Energy Systems

-Wind Energy Center WMC

ENERGY ACADEMY CONCEPT

Development Energy Academy Europe

(MBO/HBO/WO)

ENTRANCE

EnTranCe test and research facilities

Sustainable energy and levee

reinforcement:

Case Afsluitdijk

Solar Power:

2012-2014: Pilot ca 300 kW

Blue Energy Breezanddijk:

2011-2014: Pilot plant 50 kW

2015-2020: Demonstration site 0,5 - 1

MW

After 2020: Power plant 50 - 200 MW

Tidal Energy in ESA:

2015: 5 MW

After 2015: Power plant 18 MW

Tidal Energy Den Oever

Since 2006: Pilot plant 80kW

2020: 4 MW + pumping

station(?)

Tidal Energy Kornwerderzand

2020: 2,5 MW + pumping

station(?)

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Planning transformation

Afsluitdijk to Energy dyke

Energy Innovation and

Energy Challenges

WHAT ARE THE

EU OPPORTUNITIES ?

KP7 - Horizon 2020

The basis for the

Energy Valley

International program

http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=press

Ref: Agentschap NL

Horizon 2020 – Objectives and structure

Creating Industrial Leadership and Competitive Frameworks

Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies

Access to risk finance

Innovation in SMEs

Excellence in the Science Base

Frontier research (ERC)

Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Skills and career development (Marie Curie)

Research infrastructures

Shared objectives and principles

Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes

Europe 2020 priorities

European Research Area

Simplified access

International cooperation

Coherent with other EU and MS actions

Tackling Societal Challenges

Health, demographic change and wellbeing

Food security and the bio-based economy

Secure, clean and efficient energy

Smart, green and integrated transport

Supply of raw materials, resource efficiency and climate action

Inclusive, innovative and secure societies

EIT will contribute to addressing these challenges

Ref: Agentschap NL

Wind developments up to 2030

UK:

15000

MW BEL:

2000

MW

NL:

6000

MW

GER:

40000

MW ??

DK:

4000

Mw

Total windpower

development offshore

approx between 20000

and 100000 Mw?

Source: Howard V. Rogers – The impact of import dependency and wind generation on UK gas demand and security of supply to 2025 – The oxford institute for energy studies (p.67 en p.71).

What will be our challenge?

7 Co2 re-Use

The 10 Energy themes of the Hansa Energy Corridor

based on Energy System Integration as the basis for international EU

program applications

2 Electricity/

Balancing of infrastructures

1 centralized energy

development

Wind Power

9 Power Plants

3 Decentralized

energy development

e.g.

developmentFlexinet

/ clean mobility

PV/Blue

Energy/CHP

4 Biomass

5 renewables/

Fossil Gas

6 Upstream gas

production

Underground Gas Storage

10 Legal

Issues/social

acceptance

W.L. Kling. Intelligence in Power Networks (adjusted by author Dr. Koos Lok Eur.Ing MBA). Inaugural address at Eindhoven University of

Technology, the Netherlands (in Dutch), 2002.

8 LNG

Ideal harbour locations

Vlissingen

Esbjerg

Eemshaven

Den Helder

Harlingen

HOW DO WE GROW ?

Building a European Energy Region of Excellence

Development Energy Region of

Excellence

North

Netherlands

Niedersachen

Norway

Schotland

Scale

Inter-regional level

International level

Energy

Valley

Ems

Achse

Hansa Energy Corridor (HEC)

European Energy Region of Excellence

• Advanced cross-border cluster collaboration in the field of energy

• Growth of innovation-related activities

• Higher competitiveness of cross-border energy sector with specific

emphasis on SMEs

BUT!

• Lack of critical mass

• Binding sustainable structure for cross-

border cluster collaboration

• Building on synergies and opportunities for

mutual learning

• Integrated research agendas

BUT!

• It’s not an end in itself, it is an intermediary

step towards European Region of Excellence

• World-class energy hot spot

• Synergy with EU energy policy,

EU regional policy and EU

research agenda

• Concrete solutions for the

development of cross-border

energy systems

Ems Achse

European North Sea Energy Alliance

Energy Valley

Rogaland

Scottish regional

cluster

Other

organisations

Key theme: Trans-national cooperation of regional

research-intensive clusters

Duration: up to 36 months

Budget: ( ca 3 M EUR)

Financing rate: up to 100 % of eligible costs

Participants: Research driven clusters from Norway,

Scotland, Germany and the Netherlands and China as a

Associated Country

Award criteria: scientific and technological excellence,

potential impact, quality and efficiency of the implementation

and management

Start project October 2012

Regions of Knowledge energy call 2012-2015: is the basis for

the next step towards a region of excellence the ENSEA

project

Analysis, development and

implementation of research agendas for

regional or cross-border clusters Initiatives to improve integration

Mentoring of regions with a less-developed

research profile by highly developed ones Dissemination activities

What will be funded?

Activities Funded by the Call

KP/7 Energy related activities / applications in on:

-ENSEA project

-North Sea Vision project

-Smart Grids application

-Asset Management and Logistics wind offshore application

-Storage application

-Energy Dike application

-Data storage application

-etc

Next steps:

- to become a recognized “European Region of Energy Excellence” based on a HEC cooperation between the EV region and Lower Saxony

- anlysis/discusion/lobby on EU applications within the “Horizon 2020” programme ,based on the ENSEA project

- anlysis/discusion/lobby on EU applications within the Interreg 5B programme ,based on the Energy Vision project

Next steps wrt the EU Work

Programme

Energy Valley Internationalisation:

-EU strategy based on system integration

-Lobby

-Project Management & Project support

-Consortium development over triple Helix

-EU and Interreg applications

-Reporting

Thank you for your attention