Bert Stouwie has been working for Gasunie since 2006 and has a background in electrical, instrumentation and process control. After being responsible for an engineering department, Bert started in 2014 as project manager for various natural gas projects. In 2017 the change to hydrogen project started with the 1 MW PEM electrolyser project in combination with a solar parc, compression and truck loading.

The hydrogen part is growing strongly and Bert is now responsible for the planned hydrogen storage at Zuidwending, where Gasunie wants to store large amounts of hydrogen in salt caverns, as an important part of large hydrogen infrastructure in The Netherlands.