Renaud Le Pierres
Panel Chair
Renaud Le Pierres is responsible for assisting in the development of Heatric business within new markets, mainly power generation, energy storage, carbon capture, and waste heat recovery.
As part of the Business Development team, he works to adapt existing products and develop new solutions to satisfy existing and new markets requirements.
He has been involved in various new power conversion cycles since 2005 when joining Heatric’s nuclear department as a design engineer and has been involved in many advanced gas power conversion cycles and energy storage projects.
In this role, he participates actively in various new energy market communities, and regularly presents at events such as the International sCO2 Power Cycle Symposium and ASME Turbo Expo.
Panel 2: Technological, regulatory and economical challenges in the hydrogen value chain
Wednesday, January 17th
15:40 – 17:00 HG F 30 | Audi Max
Panelists: Christer Björkqvist (ETN Global), John Gulen (Bechtel), Francis Bainier (GTRgaz), Oscar Mene Castiñeiras (Linde)
Chair: Renaud Le Pierres (Meggitt)
Panel Abstract:
Hydrogen is one of the most spoken topic of late when considering Net Zero and how to decarbonize existing and future energy systems and propulsion: only in 2023 tens of events directly related to Hydrogen took place around the worlds between workshops, conferences and exhibitions covering these topics.
However Hydrogen use is not new given Jules Verne described it as an inexhaustible source of fuel in his 1894 novel “Mysterious Island”, or more recently when John Bockris first coined the term “Hydrogen Economy” in 1972 to describe a future in which we use hydrogen as an alternative to fossil fuel and to date these visions did not fully realise.
This panel will cover many challenges be it technical, regulatory and economical that need to be addressed to properly deploy a hydrogen economy as an ultimate replacement for the current fossil fuel energy model which we know is incompatible with the global warming threat while fuelling geopolitical and associated economical instabilities.
