The future of gas and gas turbines in Europe
Pamela Largue
Posted on: 27 January 2023
In an exclusive interview at Enlit Europe 2022, Christer Björkqvist of ETN Global talks about the gas turbine market and how it’s been disrupted by hydrogen.
In an exclusive interview at Enlit Europe 2022, Pamela Largue talks to Christer Björkqvist of ETN Global about the gas turbine market and how it’s been disrupted by hydrogen.
Björkqvist described the complex changes in the energy landscape as we aim to increase energy security while accelerating decarbonisation efforts.
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He emphasised that "natural gas has got a key role to play in this environment," not only as a replacement fuel for coal but also as an abated fuel in the longer term.
Turbines, therefore, have a key role to play as well due to their ability to produce reliable, carbon-neutral solutions.
And hydrogen is proving to be an important disrupter, "it's a promising fuel and the fact that you can use hydrogen blends and carbon-negative fuels in turbines has been of great importance," added Björkqvist.
"Hydrogen has transformed turbines from being a transition technology to being a destination technology."
