Elbert Huijzer

Elbert Huijzer

• Strategic Advisor, Energy Grids Alliander

Elbert Huijzer has worked in the gas sector as researcher, innovator, consultant and strategic advisor since 1992. After graduating as an aerospace engineer at the Technical University of Delft, he joined Kiwa Technology (formerly Gastec) and in 2002 joined Alliander.

A recurring theme in his work is promoting biogas and hydrogen. As a strategic advisor for the energy grids he is now mainly focusing on the dramatic changes in the Dutch heating sector, where natural gas needs to be phased out as quickly as possible.

Elbert has been a member of the IGU Sustainability Committee since 2006.