16 November 2023

12:20 – 13:05

Amphithéâtre Painlevé

Nicolas Serrie

Nicolas Serrie is Chairman of the Management Board of KHIMOD, a scale-up company providing fuel and syngas manufacturing solutions. Nicolas has developed a strong expertise in energy issues through his various professional experiences. Nicolas began his career at the World Bank, where he financed transport infrastructures in Latin America to the tune of several hundred million dollars. He then joined the French Development Agency as Energy and Infrastructure Project Manager, where he carried out numerous financing operations in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. In 2010, Nicolas became Head of Energy Strategy for the Alstom Group. Nicolas worked for 11 years at Alstom and then General Electric, where he developed the offshore wind power business in France with the creation of two plants totalling 1,000 jobs in Saint-Nazaire and Cherbourg, and led sales of onshore wind turbines in India, North Africa and the United States. Nicolas was also President of GE Hydro’s French operations. Prior to joining KHIMOD, Nicolas was Managing Director of Natel Energy, an American start-up active in small hydropower.

Conference: What are the challenges for synthetic fuels?

Synthetic fuels are essential for decarbonizing certain applications, for which they represent the only available technical option. There are different types of fuel, depending on the application and the context. What are they? How are they manufactured? What are the challenges – power requirements, land, natural resources – associated with these new energy carriers? How can France position its industry and ecosystem to produce these new fuels? These are just some of the questions that will be addressed at this conference.