Upon completion of this VILT course, participants will be able to:

• Gain a clear understanding of the different methods available for storing and transporting hydrogen
• Review up-to-date examples of the various solutions and their deployment
• Discuss how multiple solutions will co-exist and integrate along lengthy supply chains
• Learn how emerging technologies can play a role in improving the economics of hydrogen supply
• Evaluate how supply chain solutions will determine different strategies and patterns of hydrogen roll-out, depending on contrasting locality and scale considerations
• Stay fully up-to-date on examples of the projects, business models and deployment approaches being developed across the world

The VILT course is intended for professionals who are business developers, product managers, project managers, strategic planners, investors and market analysts. These professionals include:

• Hydrogen producers
• Gas distributors
• LNG and cryogenic system vendors
• Gas compression vendors
• Gas storage technology vendors
• Gas shipping and trading companies
• Banks & investment firms
• Hydrogen project developers
• Energy policymakers

• Basic or Foundation

The VILT will be delivered online in 3 half-day sessions comprising 4 hours per day, including time for lectures, discussion, quizzes and short classroom exercises.

Your expert course leader is an internationally renowned energy communicator and business educator, focused on the interconnected clean energy transition topics of renewable power, energy storage, energy system electrification and hydrogen. His own independent technology tracking, market assessment and opportunity/risk analysis is delivered to clients through a mix of business advisory work, commissioned content, small-group training (online & in-person), and one-to-one executive coaching (online).

In the hydrogen sector, he is currently lead consultant and trainer to the World Hydrogen Leaders network, and writer of their ‘This Week in Hydrogen’ news column. He is also co-presenter of the ‘New Energy Chinwag’ podcast, which regularly covers hydrogen-related issues.

During more than 15 years as an independent energy expert, he has helped companies from large multinationals to innovative start-ups – totalling assignments in over 30 countries across 5 continents. Most recently, he has presented clean energy training in locations as diverse as Singapore, the UK, South Africa, The Philippines, the USA, Mexico, Spain and Dubai – and, in recent times of course, online to international audiences from across the world.

Prior to this, he was Research Director for over 10 years at Informa, a $9 billion business intelligence provider; where he drove new market identification, analysis and project deployment work, and managed teams in the UK and US.

He has a strong science background, holding a 1st Class Honours degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, a PhD in Earth Sciences and a further Diploma in Economics & Sustainability from the UK’s Open University.