Port of Rotterdam

It does show the response times operators are willing to specify.

Rotterdam offers a parallel outside the United States.

Tenet and Stedin plan a temporary 500-megawatt transformer at Europort, with commissioning no earlier than the end of 2028, and subject to permits and cable connections.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority and the business group DeltaLynx welcomed the plan while saying more solutions are needed until permanent expansions are finished.

Also involved, the new energy task force includes all four organizations and is studying flexible capacity with companies.

Nothing about the transformer says how quickly a comparable U.S. project could connect.

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Rotterdam temporary transformer could ease port grid limits.

Tenet and Stedden plan a 500-megawatt interim transformer at Europort, but the operators have not said how much capacity waiting customers will receive.

A temporary transformer planned for Rotterdam's Europort area could give some businesses grid capacity years before permanent network expansions are finished.

For companies waiting to electrify equipment or expand operations, it offers a possible earlier route to a connection.

It does not yet say how much capacity any customer will receive.

Businesses seeking new or larger connections join waiting lists.

Nationally, Dutch queues now run to tens of gigawatts.

So those would be the organizations that have like the conjules, like the... information from defense, from certain governments, critical infrastructures, those information that if it is hacked, if it is, for instance, changed due to a hacking hacker on the line, that the impacts are unacceptable.

Think about energy networks or networks in the harbor, like one of our Lighthouse customers, the Port of Rotterdam.

So those types of information, you want to make sure that they are absolutely protected starting from the fundamentals, starting from the physics, and not only with a software patch.

I want to come back to a comment that you made earlier.

And what drives that change Ingrid?

Awareness and also the maturing of the industry.

Why was the port of Rotterdam an attractive early use case?

It was really an example of one of those critical infrastructures where, as I said earlier, it is extremely important that the communications are secured.

If I can get you both to start by giving us a quick introduction into who you are and what you do.

My name is Oscar van Veen, Director of Innovation and Digital Port Performance in the Port of Rotterdam.

My name is Mare Stapmans.

I'm an entrepreneur and investor, basically building a startup ecosystem, so helping startups and scale-ups to scale in the maritime and energy sector.

And, Oscar, why is

it important for ports to be a part of this process?

Yeah, so at the Port of Rotterdam, we're steering to be the most innovative port in Europe, in the world.

And for every ecosystem innovation with new technologies coming in, like AI, quantum technology, internet and quantum safety of data, you need the whole ecosystem to get that new development in.

Uh, they're known as RED III.

Um, this included the maritime sector, uh, and of course, the Port of Rotterdam is the Europe's biggest port.

Um, what this meant was that producers in Rotterdam, uh, had to either sell more bio marine fuels, uh, in order to avoid paying for new ZREG, uh, renewable tickets, um, as per the new RED III rules, or they would just have to be buying these, uh, tickets on the market, uh, in order to comply with the rules and the mandates.

What this meant was that producers then passed this cost on to ships looking to refuel in the Netherlands and the, uh, their customers.

You're gonna see that from us, you're gonna see that from, from, from others as well.

I think my prediction is it ends up more like the Port of Rotterdam, where you got these containerization, these sort of weird chassis that move around, and sort of looks more like that.

I mean, you're, you're closer to it.

I do, I do have one really important question.

We handle around 20,000 boxes a year from Chile at the moment.

Rotterdam Port gives you a real sense of what's happening in the global economy.

Containers moving through here show you where goods are coming from, where they're going, and how quickly trade patterns can shift.

So what is happening here shows just how closely Europe and Beijing are connected through trade.

Operational capacity has nearly doubled in the last 12 months, and based on the pipeline, it is predicted that operational capacity will double again in 2027.

An upbeat Hydrogen Council CEO Ivana Jamelkova forecast during a global webinar in which Hyundai Vice Chair and Hydrogen Council Co-Chair Jehun Chang, Sinopec Vice Chair Zhao Dong and Port of Rotterdam Authority CEO Baudivine Siemens also took part.

The latest report, co-authored with McKinsey & Company and informed by the perspectives of some 70 global CEOs, coincides with shifting geopolitical priorities, which are strengthening hydrogen's role as a strategic resilience lever.

As governments seek to strengthen energy security, build more flexible economies and support long-term industrial growth, Hydrogen is receiving renewed attention for its ability to help address multiple strategic priorities alongside deep decarbonisation, complementing growing electrification and use of renewable energy sources.

Nel's PEM stack production will continue at Nel's Connecticut facility in the US.

Europe now follows as the second largest market, leading in project count and relative investment growth, plus 35% since 2025, while the US accounts for about 75% of globally committed low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia capacity.

Siemens described the port of Rotterdam as having a nice concentration of the elements that you basically need to build up a new hydrogen market and to go through this energy transition.

On top of all, we're close to the sea, and a lot of the hydrogen will either be produced here through wind farms at sea and electrolysers, or it will have to be imported, and that's why we're also happy with what China is developing, because Europe will never be totally energy independent.