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HIGHLIGHTS
PVMI 2025 UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL GREEN ENERGY EXPO AND CONFERENCE
FOUR ESI STAFF MEMBERS ARE RANKED AMONG THE WORLD'S TOP SCIENTISTS IN 2025
THE 1ST TECHNICAL WORKSHOP UNDER THE EU-ASEAN ENERGY DIALOGUE
Inaugural Cross-Border Electricity Trade (CBET) Workshop hosted by ESI
ESI Staff Named Highly Cited Researchers 2024
ESI Hosts Wuhan University Delegation for Workshop on Green Development of Asian Countries
ESI@NUS and ACE Leads Discussion on Decarbonising Southeast Asia at SIEW 2024
In a global context focused on achieving net-zero target, ASEAN plays a crucial role in transitioning towards a decarbonised energy sector. The region’s reliance on fossil fuels, particularly coal and oil, has created significant regional and global environmental issues. Rapid economic growth in ASEAN, along with high energy demand, necessitates strategic planning of the renewable energy mix, grid modernisation, investment and collaboration of financing from public and private sectors, and socio-economic benefits from domestic and regional perspectives. To address this challenge, the Energy Studies Institute at the National University of Singapore (ESI@NUS) and the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE), recently co-hosted a roundtable, "Decarbonising Asia: Energy Transformation”, during Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW) 2024.
Visit by Fudan University and Joint Workshop
PUBLICATIONS
ROUTE-TO-MARKET STRATEGY FOR LOW CARBON HYDROGEN FROM THE PERMIAN BASIN
SEMINARRoute-to-Market Strategy for Low Carbon Hydrogen from the Permian Basin
Dr Ning Lin
Thursday, 16 February 2023
15:00 – 16:00 hrs (Singapore Time, GMT+8)
ESI Conference Room
29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Block A,
#10-01, Singapore 119620
Abstract
The Permian Basin is currently an energy hub serving Texas and neighboring states with a diverse set of resources, including oil, gas, wind, and solar. Decarbonization provides a new opportunity for success in the Permian Basin via hydrogen energy. This presentation investigates the potential for hydrogen energy production to leverage the existing regional resources and energy production while helping to address increasing global energy demand and the impacts of climate change. The idea of using waste and inefficiencies of current energy industries—oil and gas and wind power—to feed the production of a clean and zero-carbon energy source—hydrogen—may form a path for a sustainable and clean energy transition in the years ahead.
About the Speaker
Ning Lin is an energy economist with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. She recently joined the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin as the chief economist at its Center for Energy Economics. With 15 years of experience, Dr. Lin managed global market analysis capabilities for Shell Trading, Koch Industries, and Tenaska. Her experience in chemical and energy industries includes natural gas and power, petrochemical derivatives, intermediate chemicals, and polymer, fiber, and engineering plastics. She has successfully executed a variety of commercial development projects, established local partnerships in overseas regions, and managed capital investment, technology licensing, market development, and product innovation efforts.
Her interests in Hydrogen focus on the following areas:
• A transportation and infrastructure analysis of hydrogen, focusing on integrating with the current gas and electric infrastructure through a network equilibrium model to understand and plan the pathway of hydrogen transportation, production, and storage along the existing gas infrastructure system to achieve optimal cost and operational efficiency.
• A commercial ready valuation framework for geological underground hydrogen storage, including a techno-economic model for underground storage and market simulations of storage projects combined with demand and supply conditions.
