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        Speech ged.      Homan Town Hall event NortH2
        rode draad     van   het verhaal:  we   zijn   allemaal onderdeel     van een   ketting, een value chain een waardketen,
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        ook   een  Ketting   van  bedrijven   die  aan   elkaar  gelinkt zijn.   en die bedrijven zijn mensen. jij en ik.
        Introduction
        Welkom      en  omschrijven    waarom we        hier zijn met z’n allen. We hebben een grote klus te klaren, een die echt het
        verschil   gaat   maken. Het is   een  bijzondere klus, want we gaan het systeem van energie veranderen: van losse
        sectoren tot de hele value chain. Alleen dan lukt het om productie, transport en gebruik avn waterstof
        betaalbaar te maken. Omdat wij denkend aty waterstof eencruciaal element van de energietransitie is, is dit
        project   dus de doorbraak.      en  zoals met alle chains: all links of the chain have to be        strong  and connected.
        Alle onderdelen       zijn even belangrijk,      maar  toch  was er een    begin,.
        1. Daar ga ik over vertellen. (Dan vertel ik wie ik ben en over onze regio en hoe het                begon).
        2. Daarna vertel ik waarom het essentieel is dat er een Ketting van samenwerkende                    bedrijven  en  overheden   gaat
        zijn
        3. Daarna     waarom     dat hier is
        4. Daarna     waarom     de wereld dit    nodig heeft    en
        5 dat  we samen      die ketting vormen      .
        En   na vandaag weten jullie      allemaal hoe      belangrijk    het is dat wij  hier samen  allemaal   aan werken.
        1. Beginning      of the chain
        My   name   is Nienke Homan. I     am   Regional Minister of the Province of Groningen         and concerned with the energy
        transition in   our  province. We   are part of the NortH2 project. It is the flagship project of our Northern Netherlands
        Hydrogen Investment Plan, which we published in              October last year.
        Stuk over    gaswinning    en aardbevingen ( kopieren       uit stuk van  [EIEgl?)
        Personally, I am member of the Green party GroenL inks. So, you might be asking                what I am  doing here  as green and
        left politician presenting at an event by multinational companies?
        2. Transition and      triple helix
        Well, we are very fortunate to have in the Northern Netherlands a group of closely collaborating companies,
        governments, and knowledge institutes, that share the ambition and the drive to create a large scale hydrogen
        ecosystem. We all see the unique possibility in the region to accomplish that, demonstrated by a committed project
        pipeline with over 50 hydrogen projects.
        The commitment of the different stakeholders is very important. There is no transition without commitment. That needs
        close triple helix organization. The transition also results in integration of various sectors as for example power and gas,
        where   existing   boundaries  are removed and       relationships adapted.
        Another    important element is that     a transition is  by its nature vague   and  ambiguous.  In the beginning, it might be hard
        to determine your role and position as actor in the arena of stakeholders. This requires outside-the-box thinking and also
        a certain courage to take position. To be successful, a clear vision is needed for shaping today's policies. Therefore, it is
        necessary to make the transition as concrete as possible and to show how the problems can be solved. We need to show
        images of the system of the future. And we did. In febryary we launched NortH2. A day to be proud. But yes there
        critics, like...
        And 1 understand that      people have te get used to these kind of disrupting plans.      en ze  vinden het raar dat we  dif samen
        doen. Maar     we can   anly tackle climate change if...
        3. Importance to the region
        What is the    position of the province of Groningen? In the Northern Netherlands, we have an intrinsic motivation to
        green  our   energy supply. We are an energy region since the sixties, exporting natural gas to North-Western Europe. The
        energy   sector provides 20 000 jobs in the region. However, change is needed due to the earthquakes in our region and
        for climate reasons.
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        Hydrogen is part of this change.        It offers us the possibility to be a frontrunner which brings us a quicker energy
        transition and the    possibility   to retain current  jobs and even attracting new jobs. The frontrunner potential was
        recognized by     the  Fuel  Cell  Hydrogen    Joint  Undertaking as the "HEAVENN" project was awarded with a grant. The
        project is the starting point for the creation of the first Hydrogen Valley in the EU.
        It was  for a reason    that we were    recognized as first Hydrogen Valley. Namely, we have a unique potential due to our
        location and    our  assets.
        We still have the assets of the gas-sector in the        region. Gasunie has an extensive gas infrastructure with the capacity to
        transport molecules to the region, to the Netherlands and abroad. This potentially provides us access to European
        hydrogen offtake markets as for example the German Ruhr-area. Besides that, we have 28 salt caverns in our region.
        These   can  be converted to large scale hydrogen storage facilities. Hy Stock is already working on that. Furthermore, we
        have the  knowledge institutes and human capital in the region which possess knowledge on gas and hydrogen trading,
        transport, and imnovation. We have an established ecosystem with gas expertise in place and are a proven energy
        research and innovation hub that builds on long-standing innovation. The expertise in gas trading, transport, and
        innovation plays a vital role in determining the competitiveness and position of a hydrogen ecosystem in the emerging
        European economy in the long run. Last but not least, we have physical space available at strategic locations for
        hydrogen production at industrial hubs, regional off-take markets and large offshore wind potential offshore north of
        the Northern Netherlands.
        4. NortH2 in international context
        Right now the [EA is working on           a GLOBAL net      zero roadmap to 2050. Can     you imagine? A global roadmap. A
        roadmap for the whole world          to reduce the carbon emissions to zero. the last    century the use of oil, gas and coal grew
        organicly. But now we haven to transform our energysystem               in 30 years. Compeletely.  So  we have to think  big and
        organise this system quite well. And show some courage.
        As  already mentioned, I      consider NortH2      as the flagship project of our regional hydrogen ambitions. But NortH2 brings
        much   more on     the table than   regional importance. The national government sees the potential of hydrogen as well.
        Nevertheless, the capacity of 4 GigaWatt electrolysis NortH2 aims to realize in 2030 corresponds to the 3-4 GigaW att
        electrolysis target in the Dutch climate agreement. So by realizing NortH2, the 2030 hydrogen targets of the Dutch
        Climate agreement are accomplished accordingly. Doing so, the hydrogen economy in the Netherlands will be
        kickstarted, already contributing to green recovery in the upcoming years.
        Considering     the European     perspective. the EU has launched its ambitious Green Deal. It wants to become the
        sustainable world leader and considers          hydrogen as one of its strategic value chains for the future's EU industry
        competitiveness. We live in a European Union who wants to become world leader in hydrogen technologies. It does not
        want to make the same mistakes a decade ago with the solar panels where China won the race. At the same time, the
        USA is weakening as world power. For that reason, the European Commission has set up the European Clean Hydrogen
        Alliance to identify how hydrogen can be rolled out in the EU and which barriers need to be eliminated.
        The  target in the European Hydrogen Strategy is           to have 40  GigaWatt of electrolysis in place in  2030. NortH2 would
        hence amount to 10% of the green hydrogen production in the EU, potentially the future world leader in hydrogen.
        Hence, also in the European and global perspective, NortH2 is a very significant project. The breakthrough will be here.
        5.  mensen      als onderdeel       ketting
        Thus,  we   might sometimes be modest in Groningen and tell you that it 1s significant or substantial...
        But what we really want to say is that with both the climate challenge and economic challenge we now face,                you  are
        working on a unique project, part of aunique period in a unique global context!
        Mogelijke     vragen
        Will you   as  aregion    allocate  budgets   for the project?
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           Potentially   under funds    as the Just Transition Fund     or the Nationaal  Programma;
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           [arge  scale   funding   programs, either national     or international more  likely to be a gamechangers
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           Regional role in (political) advocacy        and  permits expected to be more important than     the funding role
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