January 13 - CHBC Virtual Briefings - Conversion of Natural Gas Pipelines to Hydrogen
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13 AT 10:00AM PACIFIC. Join CHBC's virtual meeting on Conversion of Natural Gas Pipelines to Hydrogen. With an ever increasing focus on decarbonizing the gas grid, blending hydrogen into the gas grid and converting gas pipelines to hydrogen are becoming options that are being considered in the U.S. and implemented in other countries. This panel will discuss California’s lack to take action, what other countries are doing, and why hydrogen pipelines are an option to keep the costs of transitioning to a renewable energy economy manageable.
Briefing Agenda:
10:00 AM
Welcome and Introductions
• Sara Fitzsimon Nelson, CHBC Policy Director
10:05 AM
Keynote - Switching a City from Natural Gas to Hydrogen
• Dan Sadler, H21 programme director, Equinor (invited)
10:20 AM
Keynote: The Practical Conversion of long-distance Gas Networks to Hydrogen Operation
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Thiemann, Senior Vice President for Energy Transition Technologies, Siemens Energy (invited)
10:35 AM
Roundtable – Conversion of Natural Gas Pipelines to Hydrogen – Options to Decarbonize the Gas Grid
• Moderator: Sara Fitzsimon Nelson, Policy Director, California Hydrogen Business Council
• Jamie Randolph, Gas Wholesale Marketing and Business Development, PG&E
• Arun Raju, Associate Director-Operations at the Center for Environmental Research and Technology, UC Riverside
• Mallik Angalakudati, Senior Vice President - Strategy and Innovation, WGL
• Jeff Reed, Chief Scientist, APEP, UC Irvine (invited)
• Jared Liu-Klein, Southern California Gas Company (invited)
• Cliff Rechtschaffen, Commissioner, CPUC (invited)
11:30 AM
Close-Out