Dive into the future of energy with Hydrogen Geopolitics. As the world pivots towards sustainable solutions, hydrogen emerges as a key player in the global energy transition. This course offers you a comprehensive exploration of hydrogen’s role in reshaping geopolitical landscapes. You’ll delve into the political history and current dynamics of hydrogen geopolitics, understanding the crucial actors from the European Union to emerging tech superpowers like China. With a focus on the strategic dimension of hydrogen, including diplomacy and critical infrastructure, you’ll gain insights into the reconfiguration of value chains and the geopolitical implications of hydrogen. As industries and nations vie for leadership in this burgeoning sector, your expertise in hydrogen geopolitics will be indispensable.
Hydrogen Geopolitics
This course is designed for professionals and graduates in the energy sector seeking to deepen their understanding of hydrogen's role in the energy transition. It explores geopolitical dynamics, the political evolution of hydrogen, and the impact of key players like the EU, China, and the US on the hydrogen value chain amidst climate change challenges.
40 hours
Energy
Course objectives
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Analyze geopolitical keys to the energy transition.
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Explore the political evolution of renewable hydrogen.
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Study the relevant actors in hydrogen geopolitics.
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Delve into the geopolitics of the hydrogen value chain.
What does it prepare you for?
This course prepares you to navigate the intricate geopolitical landscape of hydrogen as a key player in the energy transition. You'll gain the ability to identify critical geopolitical factors affecting hydrogen, understand the political evolution of renewable hydrogen, and assess the roles of significant actors like the European Union, China, and the United States. Additionally, you'll explore the geopolitics surrounding the hydrogen value chain, including strategic minerals and the reconfiguration of industrial policies.
Teaching units
UNIT 1. GEOPOLITICS OF THE ENERGY TRANSITION: WHY DOES HYDROGEN MATTER?
1. The basics of the geopolitics of the energy transition
2. Political history of hydrogen: bubbles and expectations
3. The arrival of hydrogen geopolitics
4. Hydrogen geopolitics in the context of climate change
5. Actors of hydrogen geopolitics
UNIT 2. ACTORS OF HYDROGEN GEOPOLITICS
1. Importers: the case of the European Union
2. Hydrogen in the Survival and Energy Transition of Petro-states: The Case of the Gulf Co-operation Council
3. Emerging exporters and neoexctractivism
4. Emerging tech superpowers: China
5. Emerging industrial power: the United States
UNIT 3. THE GEOPOLITICS OF HYDROGEN VALUE CHAINS
1. Hydrogen in the new globalization of derisking, decoupling and friendshoring
2. Strategic minerals for the hydrogen economy
3. The geopolitics of electrolyzers
4. Hydrogen and the reconfiguration of value chains
5. Hydrogen and the return of industrial policies
UNIT 4. THE STRATEGIC DIMENSION OF HYDROGEN
1. Hydrogen diplomacy
2. Hydrogen and the geopolitics of critical infrastructure
3. Hydrogen and green colonialism
4. Allies and rivals in hydrogen geopolitics
5. Comparative study of hydrogen strategies in the EU