King Willem-Alexander visits Denmark and Norway (12-14 November 2024)

[Somebody]

Visit by King Willem-Alexander to Denmark and Norway - November 12-14, 2024​

King Willem-Alexander will visit Denmark and Norway next month in the context of the development of the hydrogen market in North-Western Europe. King Frederik and Crown prince Haakon will participate in some of the events.

King to visit Denmark and Norway in connection with the development of the hydrogen market in northwestern Europe

His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will visit Denmark and Norway from Tuesday 12 November to Thursday 14 November, accompanied by Sophie Hermans, Minister of Climate Policy and Green Growth. The visit’s main themes will be hydrogen and the energy system of the future. His Majesty King Frederik X...

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[polyesco]

HM the King of the Netherlands on a working visit to Denmark

HM King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands will visit on 11-12 November 2024 Copenhagen together with a Dutch business delegation. HM The King will participate in parts of the programme, which aims to strengthen cooperation between the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway within hydrogen technology and future energy systems.

As part of a working visit to Denmark and Norway on 12-14 November 2024 King Willem-Alexander will visit Copenhagen. The purpose of the working visit is to expand cooperation between the Netherlands and Denmark and Norway on hydrogen. Prior to the working visit, the royal couple will host a private dinner with King Willem-Alexander in Frederik VIII's Palace at Amalienborg on 11 November.

H.M. Kongen af Nederlandene på arbejdsbesøg i Danmark

H.M. Kong Willem-Alexander af Nederlandene besøger den 11.-12. november 2024 København sammen med en nederlandsk erhvervsdelegation. H.M. Kongen vil deltage i dele af programmet, der har...

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[Izzie]

HM the King of the Netherlands on a working visit to Denmark

HM King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands will visit on 11-12 November 2024 Copenhagen together with a Dutch business delegation. HM The King will participate in parts of the programme, which aims to strengthen cooperation between the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway within hydrogen technology and future energy systems.

As part of a working visit to Denmark and Norway on 12-14 November 2024 King Willem-Alexander will visit Copenhagen. The purpose of the working visit is to expand cooperation between the Netherlands and Denmark and Norway on hydrogen. Prior to the working visit, the royal couple will host a private dinner with King Willem-Alexander in Frederik VIII's Palace at Amalienborg on 11 November.

H.M. Kongen af Nederlandene på arbejdsbesøg i Danmark

H.M. Kong Willem-Alexander af Nederlandene besøger den 11.-12. november 2024 København sammen med en nederlandsk erhvervsdelegation. H.M. Kongen vil deltage i dele af programmet, der har...

www.kongehuset.dk

Great! Looking forward to seeing King Frederik and King Willem Alexander together!

 

[Somebody]

If it's a private dinner, will they release pictures? Will his godmother queen Margrethe also be present?

I assume in Norway he will also be received by the Norwegian royal family.

 

[polyesco]

If it's a private dinner, will they release pictures? Will his godmother queen Margrethe also be present?

I assume in Norway he will also be received by the Norwegian royal family.

Yes, here is his full program. In Norway, Haakon will be present for some of the program.

Koning bezoekt Denemarken en Noorwegen in het kader van de ontwikkeling van de waterstofmarkt in Noordwest-Europa

Zijne Majesteit de Koning brengt van dinsdag 12 tot en met donderdag 14 november een bezoek aan Denemarken en Noorwegen. Het bezoek staat in het teken van waterstof en het energiesysteem van de toekomst. De Koning wordt tijdens het bezoek vergezeld door minister Hermans van Klimaat en Groene...

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I remember a previous visit from Victoria and Daniel of Sweden, they released a picture from their private dinner. Hopefully.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/15/fa/8f/15fa8f76ac1abef61807148d77d765f2.jpg

 

[Muhler]

This is about the North Sea being turned into a gigantic off-shore power-plant for northern and central Europe over the coming decades.
Norway already has experience in and have build generators based on tidal-energy. These plants are expected to be expanded using money from the oil and gas industry.
Denmark incidentally is the biggest producer of oil and gas in EU after Brexit. But we too are in the process of building hundreds of huge windmills in the North Sea. The Netherlands are doing the same, but their coastline is shorter. DK having a coastline of more than 7.000 km.
DK alone, at our current capacity, at times produce enough surplus energy to supply at least a couple of states in Germany. That is very much planned to be increased massively in the future. Thanks to Putin forcing EU to become energy-independent overnight. (We are not quite there yet though. Russian gas is still being transported via pipelines, going through Ukraine to certain countries within EU, who again quietly distribute some of it to other EU countries.)
However, as we all know the wind doesn't blow every day, so it's a good thing to have surplus energy stored in some way. Also when the wind blows a lot, there is a lot of surplus energy and if we can't distribute it, it's lost.
So energy from tidal plants or windmills needs to be stored. But how to do that?
And we are at the edge of development in DK and I believe in Norway and the Netherlands as well. One of the ideas is to store the surplus energy in water reservoirs under the seabed or on land, heating up these reservoirs or put the under pressure and when needed tab the surplus energy and distribute them into the EU electrical grid. That's the gist of it, at least,. Because I must confess I haven't gotten that much into the specific details and there are still a number of hurdles to overcome.
One of the major hurdles is at the Danish-German border. Because the power-lines south of the border are simply not geared to transport the massive amount of electricity we can produce (sometimes already now) further south. So Germany needs to may some serious investments in increasing the capacity of their power-lines. Something the Czechs and the Poles also would very much like, thank you! Not least Poland that is rapidly becoming one of the factories of EU along with countries like Romania. Both of them needing huge amount of safe, uninterrupted energy.
In the meantime countries like France are building nuclear plants like possessed! That energy also needs to be distributed into the EU energy-grid.

So CP Haakon and Kings Frederik and WA and their delegations will have plenty to talk about!