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HydrogeNext’s program will cover key topics vital to power generation and
chemical process industry professionals including the future of hydrogen in
energy, key projects/case studies, and lessons learned, as well as the latest
news and updates on electrolyzer technologies, infrastructure issues, handling &
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Hydrogen 2021


MONDAY, OCTOBER 18

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
HydrogeNext Keynote - Hydrogen: Creating a Pathway to Net Zero

Moderator
Aaron Larson
Executive Editor
POWER magazine
Panelist
Paul Browning
President & CEO
Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Inc.
Panelist
Maria Pope (Invited Panelist)
President & CEO
Portland General Electric Company
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
POWER Awards Ceremony




TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Networking Lunch on Show Floor


1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
The Hydrogen Economy

Moderator/Chair
Noah Meeks
Sr Research Engineer
Southern Company
Panelist
Lincoln Bleveans
Executive Director, Sustainability & Energy Management, Energy Operations
Stanford University
Panelist
Dr. Uuganbayar Otgonbaatar, Invited
Corporate Strategy Manager
Exelon Generation LLC
Panelist
Andrew Hegewald, Invited
Gas Business Development Manager
Dominion Energy, Inc.
Panelist
Steve Johnston, Invited
Advanced Clean Technology Innovation Manager
Sempra US Gas and Power
Panelist
John Rohde
SVP, Green H2 Development for the US and Canada.
ENGIE North America
There has been on-again, off-again interest in hydrogen as an energy resource
for decades. However, with countries around the world aiming to decarbonize
their power supplies, more focused attention will likely be placed on hydrogen
going forward. Therefore, the next significant step in the energy transition may
revolve around the hydrogen economy. In the end, it will come down to cost. The
key to expanding the hydrogen economy is developing a supply chain that can
produce green hydrogen at a price customers are willing to pay. This session
will provide an overview of the hydrogen economy and how it could evolve.
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Gas Turbine Developments

Equipment manufacturers are in a race to enhance gas turbine technology. Not
only are they working to improve gas turbine efficiency, but they are also
trying to expand fuel flexibility including the capability to operate heavy-duty
gas turbines on 100% hydrogen. Some experts believe combustion technology
improvements will achieve this breakthrough by 2025. In this session,
presentations will touch on the latest advancements in gas turbine technology
and explain the path forward. Attendees will also learn about some of the side
effects that combusting 100% hydrogen could have on complementary plant
equipment including heat recovery steam generators at combined cycle facilities.


WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20

8:00 am - 9:30 am
Hydrogen Production Technologies

Speaker
Mr. Fredric C. Fletcher
Assistant General Manager
Burbank Water & Power
Speaker
Stephen Szymanski
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Nel Hydrogen
Speaker
Marc Nichols
Senior Director, New Reactors
Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)
Speaker
Whitaker B. Irvin, Jr.
Chief Executive Officer
Q Hydrogen
This session will explore the different ways to produce Hydrogen from water.
Attendees will learn about the different technologies, as well as latest
technological developments, such as in membranes, catalysts and downstream
processing.
PRESENTATIONS:
 * Green Hydrogen Project
   
 * Green Hydrogen: Enabling Cross Sector Pathways to Decarbonization
   
 * The role Nuclear will play in Hydrogen
   
 * Revolutionizing the Energy World with Breakthrough Hydrogen Science
   

10:00 am - 11:30 am
Carbon Capture Opportunities and Challenges

Hydrogen produced from natural gas via traditional means -- such as
steam-methane reforming or autothermal reforming -- can still provide a clean
source of fuel ("blue" hydrogen) when the carbon emissions are captured and
stored. This session will discuss the various industrial carbon-capture
techniques and how "blue" hydrogen can present a cost-effective solution in many
applications and serve as a bridge to a fully "green" hydrogen economy.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Networking Lunch on Show Floor


1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Fuel Cell Technology and Usages

Speaker
Yun Wang
UC Irvine
The technology used in modern hydrogen fuel cells is not new--NASA used fuel
cells for its manned space missions in the 1960s--but fuel cells have evolved.
Advancements have led to longer-lasting, better-performing, more-efficient, and
larger-scale fuel cell systems. Fuel cells are already being used in cars and
buses, and fuel cell-based power plants with capacities as high as 50 MW have
also been commissioned. This session will dive into the technology, explain
where the market stands today, and help attendees better understand the role
fuel cells could play in decarbonizing the world.
PRESENTATIONS:
 * PEM Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Station Network for Automobiles
   


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21

8:00 am - 9:45 am
Handling, Storage and Transportation

Speaker
Kimberly Okafor
Strategic Business Development Manager/Trillium
Loves Travel Stops
Hydrogen's unique qualities mean that it can present logistical and safety
challenges that must be overcome to reach widespread adoption in the energy
sector. This session will explore ways the industry can address such challenges,
including metal embrittlement, flammability and leakage.
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AARON LARSON

Executive Editor
POWER magazine


Aaron Larson joined the POWER team in September 2013 as an associate editor and
was named executive editor in 2017. Aaron has a bachelor's degree in nuclear
engineering technology and a master's degree, specializing in finance. He spent
13 years in the U.S. Navy nuclear power program, advancing to Chief Petty
Officer. He has worked at commercial nuclear, biomass, and coal-fired power
plants, functioning in operations, maintenance, safety, financial, and
management capacities. Aaron holds a Chief A Engineer boiler operator license in
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PAUL BROWNING

President & CEO
Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Inc.


Paul F. Browning was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of
Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc. on April 1, 2016 and was appointed Chief
Regional Officer of the Americas, and co- Chief Regional Officer of Europe,
Africa and Middle East on April 1, 2020. As CEO of the Americas, he leads two
global businesses that are headquartered in the United States, and three
regional businesses in North and South America. As Chief Regional Officer, he
works with Chief Executives and their management teams to coordinate strategic
planning, brand management and other long-term planning in the region and
globally. Mitsubishi Power Americas is headquartered in Lake Mary, FL. With over
2,000 employees, the company mission is to provide power generation and energy
storage solutions to their customers, enabling them to combat climate change and
advance human prosperity. Mitsubishi Power Americas operates four manufacturing
and repair centers and provides a wide variety of products and services for the
electric power generation industry including natural gas, steam, and geothermal
turbines, air quality control systems, solar power, energy storage and
artificial intelligence products and services to serve customers throughout the
Americas. Mr. Browning has led the company's expansion into Central and South
America, positioning Mitsubishi Power Americas as a top competitor in the Latin
American energy market. He has also expanded the business into renewable power
project development, energy storage and artificial intelligence products and
services. Mr. Browning has extensive global leadership experience in distributed
and centralized power generation, as well as in North American midstream and
downstream oil and gas operations. He has worked in the United States, Canada,
Mexico, and Germany and has commercial experience around the world. He has also
served on the Board of Directors of eSolar and Fuel Cell Energy. Prior to
joining Mitsubishi Power Americas, Mr. Browning was President and Chief
Executive Officer of Irving Oil Company Limited. Irving Oil owns and operates
Canada's largest oil refinery and crude oil import terminal, and is a joint
venture partner in Canada's only LNG import terminal. The company markets its
products in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. Before joining
Irving Oil, Mr. Browning was President and Chief Executive Officer of the
Thermal Products Division of GE Power & Water in Schenectady, New York. At
General Electric, he and his team developed new products for the power
generation industry and sold and executed utility scale power generation
projects throughout the world. Earlier in his career, Mr. Browning worked for
Caterpillar Corporation in a variety of leadership positions, including Managing
Director of Caterpillar Motoren in Kiel, Germany, Vice President of
Turbomachinery Products for Solar Turbines in San Diego, CA and General Manager
of a manufacturing facility in Tijuana, Mexico. He began his career at GE
Corporate Research and Development in Niskayuna, New York. Mr. Browning holds a
B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science from Carnegie
Mellon University, as well as an M.S. degree in Materials Engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.




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MARIA POPE (INVITED PANELIST)

President & CEO
Portland General Electric Company


Maria Pope is president, chief executive officer and a member of the Board of
Directors of Portland General Electric, Oregon's largest electric company.
Before becoming CEO in 2018, she served as PGE's senior vice president of Power
Supply, Operations and Resource Strategy. In that role, she oversaw PGE's
transition to the Western Energy Imbalance Market, a foundational step in
creating a regional smart grid. She joined PGE in 2009 as the company's chief
financial officer.
As CEO, Pope leads PGE's strategy to create clean, affordable energy Oregon
customers expect, while keeping reliability and resiliency at the forefront of
the company's planning efforts.
Prior to PGE, Pope was CFO of Mentor Graphics Corporation. She has also held
senior operating and finance positions within the forest products and consumer
products industries. Pope began her career in banking with Morgan Stanley.
Pope serves on the Oregon Global Warming Commission. Her other board and
commission activities include The Nature Conservancy, Electric Power Research
Institute and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Pope is an alumna of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and earned her
bachelor's degree from Georgetown University.




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NOAH MEEKS

Sr Research Engineer
Southern Company


Dr. Noah D. Meeks is a Research Engineer at Southern Company, one of the
country's largest electric utilities and an industry leader in electric power
research and innovation. Since joining Southern Company after graduation, Dr.
Meeks has led research efforts including development of mercury sorbent
technology, particulate and condensable control, and acid gas neutralization. He
oversees projects at the Mercury Research Center at the Plant Crist in Gulf
Power, and a state-of-the-art Pilot High-Sulfur Baghouse facility at Plant Bowen
in Georgia Power, in addition to a Wet Electrostatic Precipitator with Membrane
Plates, located at the Water Research Center, also at Plant Bowen. He received
his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of Kentucky in 2012 and a B.S.
in Chemistry from Northern Kentucky University in 2005.




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LINCOLN BLEVEANS

Executive Director, Sustainability & Energy Management, Energy Operations
Stanford University


Responsible for leading BWP's vertically integrated Power Supply division,
including budget development and management, integrated resource planning, power
plant operations and management, generation and transmission procurement, power
supply engineering, environmental and other regulatory compliance and advocacy,
staffing and professional development, and wholesale, day-ahead, and real-time
power system operations and power marketing. Chair of BWP's Risk Oversight
Committee which implements power supply risk management policies. Also
responsible for BWP's award-winning EcoCampus and other BWP facilities.




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DR. UUGANBAYAR OTGONBAATAR, INVITED

Corporate Strategy Manager
Exelon Generation LLC

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ANDREW HEGEWALD, INVITED

Gas Business Development Manager
Dominion Energy, Inc.

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STEVE JOHNSTON, INVITED

Advanced Clean Technology Innovation Manager
Sempra US Gas and Power

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JOHN ROHDE

SVP, Green H2 Development for the US and Canada.
ENGIE North America

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MR. FREDRIC C. FLETCHER

Assistant General Manager
Burbank Water & Power


Mr. Fred Fletcher, Assistant General Manager/Power Supply, holds a Masters in
Business Administration from the University of South Dakota and a Bachelors of
Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines
and Technology, as well as registered as a Professional Electrical Engineer in
California. He began his career as an electrical engineer for Black Hills Power
and Light. He was part of the initial management team that started Missouri
River Energy Services, a municipal joint action power supplier for 60 municipals
in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South where he was responsible for
planning as well as operations. He has held this position since 1986.



Green Hydrogen Project



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STEPHEN SZYMANSKI

Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Nel Hydrogen


Steve is Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Nel Hydrogen, with more than
30 years of technical and business development experience in the fields of
specialty chemicals and hydrogen system solutions. In this role, he manages all
sales efforts in North and South America for Nel's Electrolyzer Division. In
addition to leading sales of Nel's PEM and alkaline electrolyzer technology,
Steve manages Nel's international Navy submarine business segment. His previous
experience includes several years as an engineer in the PEM electrolyzer
business unit at United Technologies. In this position, he focused on the
development of PEM electrolyzer technology for space and defense applications.
After moving into technical sales and sales management at Buckman Laboratories
for 9 years, Steve joined Nel to support the commercialization and market
development efforts for its PEM electrolyzer technology. Since then, he has held
various management positions of increasing responsibility at Nel over the past
20 years. In addition to his primary responsibilities, Steve also serves on the
Board of Directors and as Vice Chair of the California Hydrogen Business
Council, as a Board Member and Secretary of the Ammonia Energy Association, and
as Chairman of the Board of Governors for the Connecticut Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Coalition. He has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Cornell
University and a Master of Science in Operations Management from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute.



Green Hydrogen: Enabling Cross Sector Pathways to Decarbonization

The rapid expansion of renewable electric generation capacity, and the
retirement of coal and uncompetitive nuclear power stations, is creating
electricity market volatility - dramatic time-of-day and seasonal swings in
electric power rates. The dynamically evolving decentralized power generation
market, combined with a lack of widespread commercial electrical storage
capacity, is creating supply/demand mismatches that enable flexible
electricity-using technologies to arbitrage value differentials. Advanced
large-scale electrolysers offer the capability to utilize an electric generation
plant's curtailed or undervalued power to make hydrogen at highly attractive
costs. Electrolysers enable utility companies to store low or zero value
electricity in the form of hydrogen, often referred to as "power-to-gas". In
times of peak demand, the stored hydrogen can be used to generate clean
electricity using fuel cells or gas turbine generators to meet demand without
relying on added fossil plant generators. Hydrogen gas can be stored in tanks or
injected directly into a natural gas grid to achieve the necessary storage
capacity. Coupling hydrogen production with natural gas infrastructure could
provide the necessary scale for utilities because natural gas grids can store
vast amounts of fuel gas. Nel Hydrogen is a true market and commercialization
leader in electrolysis technology, with a 90+ year history of providing reliable
and safe hydrogen generation solutions for the industrial and power generation
markets. Nel Hydrogen pioneered grid scale electrolysis, and it is rapidly
gaining acceptance for emerging energy applications such as grid services and
long duration shifting of energy resources. This presentation will discuss the
commercial readiness of grid scale electrolysers, and the potential use cases
for hydrogen in the power-to-gas market sector.

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MARC NICHOLS

Senior Director, New Reactors
Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)


Marc Nichols joined Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) in 2011 and is the Senior
Director of New Reactors. In this role, he leads industry's efforts to improve
the regulatory, policy and business environment for new reactors.

Marc has previously worked for Duke Energy, and Toshiba in the areas of used
nuclear fuel management, operations and new plant projects.



The role Nuclear will play in Hydrogen



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WHITAKER B. IRVIN, JR.

Chief Executive Officer
Q Hydrogen



Revolutionizing the Energy World with Breakthrough Hydrogen Science

Hydrogen is carbon-free and can be a valuable energy storage solution.
Unfortunately, the two industrial methods to produce it, steam reformation of
methane and electrolysis, are more energy-intensive than the hydrogen they
create.
Q Hydrogen has developed a solution that is significantly less energy-intensive
with "waveform discs," which are machined plates with special metallurgy that
form a turbine for creating H2.
Twenty-five years ago, Whitaker Irvin, Sr. started working on this solution for
producing energy and, about ten years ago, Q Hydrogen started developing it at
its Utah testing facility. The demonstration facility for the technology is
being built in Groveton, New Hampshire, in a space that was previously a paper
mill from 1891 to 2007. New Hampshire's deregulated energy market and hospitable
regulatory environment made it the perfect fit.
When Q Hydrogen's New Hampshire facility is complete, it will take up to 300K
gallons of water daily from the nearby Upper Ammonoosuc River and produce
hydrogen in a modified diesel reciprocator to produce electricity. The process
does not involve a heat reaction, and the power will come from the facilities
existing hydroelectric dam.
Q Hydrogen's commercial implementation in New Hampshire will be the world's
first power plant fueled by clean, economical Q Hydrogen. This presentation will
discuss how Q Hydrogen's technology will be used to produce clean, affordable
energy and drive the imminent hydrogen economy.

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YUN WANG

UC Irvine

PEM Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Station Network for Automobiles

The U.S. transportation sector accounts for 37% of total energy consumption.
Automobiles are a primary application of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel
cells, which operate under low temperature and high efficiency, to reduce fossil
fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. Using hydrogen fuel, PEM fuel cells can
reach a practical efficiency as high as 65% with water as the only byproduct.
Almost all the major automakers are involved in fuel cell electric vehicle
(FCEV) development. Toyota and Hyundai introduced FCEVs (the Mirai and NEXO,
respectively) to consumers in recent years with a driving range between 312 and
402 miles and cold-start capacity from -30 °C. About 50 fuel cell electric buses
(FCEB) are operating in California, and most of them have achieved the
durability target, i.e., 25,000 h, in real-world driving conditions. As of
September 2020, over 8,573 FCEVs have been sold or leased in the U.S. More than
3,521 FCEVs and 22 FCEBs have been sold or leased in Japan as of September 2019.
An extensive hydrogen station network is required for the successful deployment
of FCEVs and FCEBs. The U.S. currently has over 44 hydrogen fueling stations
(HFSs), nearly all located in California. Europe has over 139 HFSs, with ~1500
more stations planned by 2025. This review has three primary objectives: 1) to
present the current status of FCEV/FCEB commercialization and HFS development;
2) to describe the PEM fuel cell research/development in automobile applications
and the significance of HFS networks; and 3) to outline major challenges and
opportunities.

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KIMBERLY OKAFOR

Strategic Business Development Manager/Trillium
Loves Travel Stops


Kim Okafor is the Strategic Business Development Manager for Trillium and Love's
Travel Stop. This includes the development of the EV fueling, hydrogen fueling
and solar businesses. Kim also manages the sales efforts for Trillium's Design
Build and Operation and Maintenance team. She has been with Trillium since
Love's Travel Stop acquired the company over 5 years ago. Kim also actively
serves on the Board of Directors for the California Hydrogen Business Council.
Kim has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston. Kim's
goal as the Strategic Business Development Manager is to develop business and
sales opportunities that provide economic advantages for our customers.




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