Projects

For: UPEI, the Voice of Europe’s Independent Fuel Suppliers [Sep – Nov 2017] For UPEI, the voice of Europe’s independent fuel suppliers, studio Gear Up sketched the most important factors that cause the European transport fuels landscape to change significantly in the coming  years. studio Gear Up emphasized to UPEI […]

For: DG MOVE – European Commission [Jan – Oct 2017] The Sustainable Transport Forum (STF) has been formed following the publication of the Directive on the Deployment for an Alternative Fuels Infrastructure. In this forum stakeholders in alternative fuels discuss and provide recommendations to the European Commission. Under the STF several

For: Refuel BV [Feb – Jun 2017] Refuel’s mission is to contribute to a more sustainable transport fuels market. Refuel is active as strategic advisor to organizations active in the downstream oil market. Also interim management services are provided to these companies. In an assignment to Refuel to a private

for: IEA Bioenergy, VTT Finland  [Mar – Dec 2016] In an international project team, the role of biomass energy for grid balancing was investigated. Given the expected increasing share of renewable sources for the production of renewable electricity, and in particular the share of variable sources (wind and solar energy), biomass

For: VITO Flemish Institute for Technology  [Dec 2015 – Aug 2016] studio Gear Up carried out for VITO project management and execution activities for the ‘BioSustain’ project’, commissioned by DG Energy of the European Commission. In the BioSustain project VITO collaborates with other European partners (PwC, TU Wien, Utrecht University, INFRO and

For: Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment [Dec 2015 – Apr 2016] For the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, studio Gear Up took preparatory steps, together with involved stakeholders in the sustainable biofuels sector in the Netherlands to found a Platform Sustainable Biofuels (‘Platform Duurzame Biobrandstoffen). The aim of

For: NOVE – Dutch association for independent fuel suppliers on land and water [Jul 2015 – Jan 2016] studio Gear Up supports NOVE and its members in understanding the biofuel market and policy developments in Europe and the Netherlands. By providing market, policy and regulation updates NOVE members are able

For: Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment/Netherlands Enterprise Agency [May – Nov 2015] For the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment studio Gear Up is operating as a ‘quartermaster’ to initiate concrete actions on biofuels in heavy duty road transport.  These actions should help reaching a sustainable fuel mix that

For: TKI Gas [Jul – Sep 2015] For TKI Gas, studio Gear Up analysed the technology developments of hydrogen and its application for transport and energy storage. The analysis addressed the necessity for innovation support by TKI Gas to establish synergies between the ongoing hydrogen developments and the existing gas