The course aims to prepare participants to understand and manage the regulatory challenges that the creation of a hydrogen economy entails. It will allow participants to structure the proper regulatory framework for a functioning hydrogen economy across all the parts of its value chain from production to demand.
The course is divided in three parts covering general principles of hydrogen regulation and production, regulation of hydrogen transport, and regulation of hydrogen supply. The course is delivered over three weeks.
The first week sets the scene on the hydrogen value chain. It also allows students to select their topic for the assignment and start research.
The second week explores the regulation of hydrogen networks and natural gas pipelines. Students should continue with the research for their assignment, and present in class the preliminary results of their research for class discussion.
The last week of the course presents the regulatory measures fit to support hydrogen demand and supply.
For detailed agenda please contact the ERRA Secretariat.
Cristiano Francese has more than 10 years of work experience in the energy business. Throughout his career, he worked across regulatory and policy development, as well as commercial and business development activities. He worked closely in multiple functions with a variety of organizations from major corporations to governments and energy regulatory agencies. He supported their commercial development, business model evolution, project development, regulatory analysis among many other areas of their business. His key areas of expertise include commercial development, business development and strategy activities, regulatory and policy analysis as well as market analysis.
Some of the key projects he contributed to include the Trans Adriatic Pipeline commercial strategy and development of commercial agreements, the support in the development of new business models for energy infrastructure companies, as well as the support to regulators in the reform of new regulatory frameworks and development of their capabilities. He worked across multiple areas of the energy sector, including natural gas, as well as renewable energy and renewable gasses.
The training is based on a self-paced collaborative e-learning platform that features a combination of real-time interactive presentations by the instructors, online tutoring at pre-announced times, reading material related to the course modules and weekly assignments.
The course will run for 3 weeks with the following weekly sequence:
Real-time presentations on the presented materials. Presentations will be followed by Q&A sessions. Presentations will be recorded and made available to those who could not join the real-time presentations.