Energy 4 Dummies (ONS Young)

Hall 10 - Stage 2

featuring Snorre Sande Vasshus, Senior Client Success Manager

Verden går på energi, og vi trenger stadig mer av den. Fra mobilen din og AI til fabrikker, transport og oppvarming av hjem, alt krever strøm. I denne sesjonen får du et raskt, underholdende og lett forståelig overblikk over hva energi er, hvorfor behovet øker, og hvorfor dette er en av vår tids viktigste spørsmål.

From solar boom to system reality: understanding value and constraints

Hall 4 - Stage 1

Featuring Jarand Rystad, Founder and CEO

Solar has won the cost battle and is now entering a more demanding chapter. As deployment accelerates worldwide, solar is no longer just growing within the power system, it is reshaping it. This session explores what happens when a technology becomes central to the grid, how markets behave differently at high penetration, why capture prices and negative hours are redefining project economics, and how grid integration is emerging as the new competitive frontier.

As value shifts from pure generation to system performance, battery storage is becoming the natural extension of solar, managing volatility, aligning output with demand, and opening new revenue streams. Together with flexible demand, BESS is reshaping not only project design but the entire business case for solar.

Join leading voices from across the value chain to explore how the next phase of solar deployment will be defined.

Industrial hydrogen: Decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors

Hall 4 - Stage 2 

Featuring Lein Mann Bergsmark, Vice President, Head of CCUS and Hydrogen Supply Chain Research

This session will examine the role of clean hydrogen in decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors. Discussions will focus on identifying where hydrogen is the best choice for decarbonization, analyzing the barriers that have slowed its deployment, and highlighting the critical success factors for commercially viable projects utilizing hydrogen. Leaders from firms pioneering hydrogen deployment across sectors will share insights from ongoing developments and operational experience, offering perspectives on how hydrogen can accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Hydrogen infrastructure: From today's enablers to tomorrow's scalers

Hall 4 - Stage 2 

Featuring Lein Mann Bergsmark, Vice President, Head of CCUS and Hydrogen Supply Chain Research

On the path to a global clean hydrogen economy, infrastructure is a critical enabler. Whether moving hydrogen from local producers to end-users or importing from cost-competitive regions, logistics and transportation are key. But as projects advance, infrastructure often becomes the bottleneck. In this session, we’ll explore what’s required to sanction future hydrogen and ammonia infrastructure — and hear practical lessons from today’s developers and operators.

CCS Reinvented. The carbon chain: Innovations across the CCS value chain

Hall 5 - Room 3

Featuring Jun Xing Li, Analyst, CCUS Market Research

This session takes delegates through the full lifecycle of carbon capture and storage — from cutting-edge capture technologies and novel transport concepts to injection well design, market economics, and strategic alternatives.

Presentations span both incremental improvements and paradigm-shifting approaches, including direct air capture, solid-state CO₂ transport, and methane splitting as a competing pathway.

The session challenges the industry to think beyond conventional CCS and consider where the greatest value lies.

Where is solar investment value moving next?​

Hall 4 - Stage 1

Moderated by Vegard Wiik Vollset

As solar markets mature, the investment case is being rewritten. Standalone utility-scale projects no longer deliver consistent returns across all markets, but where pure generation is losing ground, hybrid structures are opening a new chapter of value creation.​

This session explores how combining solar with storage, flexible offtake, and complementary assets is reshaping project economics. Drawing on market data and real financing experience, it examines how disciplined assumptions, sound financial frameworks, and clear risk allocation determine which projects remain financeable.​

Bringing together perspectives from market analysis, commercial lending, and public finance, the discussion highlights where value is emerging, how risk is being priced and allocated, and what is required to attract capital in today’s conditions.

Energy addition, transition or substitution?

Energy Hall - Room 2

Moderated by Jarand Rystad, Founder and CEO

Global energy consumption has risen steadily for centuries, driven primarily by the growth of fossil fuels. In recent decades, however, renewable energy has expanded at remarkable speed, becoming the fastest‑growing segment of the global energy mix. This has sparked an important debate: Are renewables simply adding new capacity on top of existing fossil‑fuel use, are they gradually transforming the system, or are they ultimately replacing fossil fuels altogether?

Different stakeholders hold strong and often conflicting views on this question. Some argue that renewables mainly add to total energy supply, as global demand continues to rise. Others see a transition underway, where renewables increasingly reshape investment flows, technologies, and energy systems. And some believe we are moving toward substitution, where renewable energy will ultimately displace fossil fuels as the dominant source.

The core question for this panel is therefore: What direction is the global energy system truly heading—addition, transition, or substitution—and what factors will determine the outcome?