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Tree Energy Solutions BV

TES-H2

Tree Energy Solutions (TES) develops large-scale renewable hydrogen and electric natural gas projects.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Cristina Lobillo Borrero (Director Energy)

5 Jun 2025 · LNG, Biomethane, Biogas EU-US energy relations

Response to 2025 Strategic Foresight Report

19 Mar 2025

TES is a global green energy company focused on developing giga-scale projects to produce hydrogen-based e-fuels, such as e-NG (electric natural gas made from green hydrogen and CO2). Based in Europe and operating worldwide, TES uses renewable power combined with climate-neutral CO2 to create e-NG, a drop-in fuel that can replace fossil natural gas exactly like biomethane. This scalable and cost-effective approach aims to provide reliable and affordable green energy globally by building on existing infrastructure and processes. TES seeks to accelerate the adoption of green molecules across various sectors by making them easy to transport and consumeto deliver on real zero targets and win the climate race. We welcome the public consultation of the upcoming strategic foresight report, and in particular its focus on resilience, inter alia of the energy system. To reach this goal, a variety of increasingly renewable sources of energy will be required moving forward. Beside ensuring that a variety of technologies can be supported, it will also be key to guarantee that the EU can continue to rely on safe and secure import of renewable energy sources, while quickly scaling up its own internal production capacity and internal market for renewable energy sources. To this end, a focus on the below would be recommended in our view: 1. Remaining committed to our existing EU targets while defining ambitious milestones towards 2035, 2040, 2045, 2050 and beyond. There is no way back. It is crucial to reconcile competitiveness with decarbonisation targets and ensure that they are both achievable and sustainable. To this end, the EU should continue pushing for high renewable and low-carbon targets across Member States and build on new and existing initiatives (eg the COP, IEA Clean Energy Ministerial) while putting forward policy tools such as renewable gas blending mandates successfully featured in Canada, Japan or France, to mention a few; 2. Ensuring adequate financing, simple funding rules, and financing tools, are put in place to achieve our objectives will be fundamental. An assessment of the available funding at EU and Member States level, along with a forecast to be included in the upcoming MFF negotiations should be incorporated to ensure that funding channels are sustainable and realistic o The proposal of an industrial decarbonisation bank to channel funding (whether ETS-based or other) into the most cost-effective decarbonisation option for different end-user sector should be supported and quickly implemented as low-hanging fruits to reducing our emissions; other schemes should be simplified and/or integrated to simplify the landscape o Renewable-focused funding should be clearly earmarked maintained, to ensure that our long-term objective remains clear and locks-in our energy system into the most sustainable pathway in terms of resources; o Technology neutrality must rule, with an objective lifecycle assessment methodology to gauge on the emission reduction benefits 3. Implementation of existing EU legislation, targets and rules is paramount to ensuring the resilience of the EU and a level-playing field across Member States. The example of the Renewable Energy Directive (2023/2413) and its ability to unlock business cases when properly implemented across the EU along with its targets and facilitating internal market tools (such as the Union Database) is a case in point. TES believes that by (1) ensuring regulatory certainty and stability through accelerated and full implementation of EU legislation and targets across Member States (2) earmarking sufficient financing for decarbonisation objectives that can ensure security of supply and resilience and making it simple to access and (3) ensuring that clear and ambitious targets and milestones are set-out towards 2035, 2040, 2045, 2050 and beyond, the EU will be able to decisively reconcile increased competitiveness and resilience.
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Meeting with Nicolás González Casares (Member of the European Parliament)

18 Feb 2025 · hydrogen and RFNBOs

Meeting with Cristina Lobillo Borrero (Director Energy)

14 Feb 2025 · • Discus proposal for the RFNBO ecosystem • Discuss strategy for unlocking FIDs for e-NG and H2

Meeting with Martine Kemp (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Jan 2025 · New Years' cocktail gathering

Tree Energy Solutions calls for EU renewable gas storage quotas

26 Nov 2024
Topic — This fitness check evaluates the European Union's energy security legislative architecture.
Message — TES requests a dedicated storage quota and an injection mandate for renewable gases. They advocate including hydrogen alternatives in security laws to protect industrial business continuity.123
Why — Incentivizing e-NG would reduce the company's investment risks and boost infrastructure utilization.4
Impact — Suppliers from geopolitically challenging regions will lose market share to local renewable gas production.5
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Tree Energy Solutions urges swift adoption of fuel zero-rating

29 Jul 2024
Topic — The Commission is updating greenhouse gas monitoring rules for the EU emissions trading system.
Message — TES supports zero-rating for renewable fuels and using mass balance for gas distribution. They request the rules apply retroactively from January 2024 to help secure project funding. They also seek uniform EU-wide application to prevent countries from creating trade barriers.123
Why — This would lower carbon costs for their customers and help secure major industrial investments.45
Impact — National governments would lose the flexibility to set custom rules for their decarbonization policies.6
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Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and

10 Apr 2024 · Decarbonization

Meeting with Adam Romanowski (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič), Dino Toljan (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

25 Mar 2024 · Role of e-NG on the path to climate neutrality

Meeting with Ditte Juul-Joergensen (Director-General Energy) and BUSINESSEUROPE and

22 Feb 2024 · Energy market

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and

22 Feb 2024 · Clean Transition Dialogue on Clean Technologies

Meeting with Aleksandra Baranska (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

6 Feb 2024 · Decarbonization

Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

21 Nov 2023 · Discussion on decarbonisation pathway for European industry.

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

7 Nov 2023 · Timeline for implementing act for RFNBOs and equivalence in the ETS

Meeting with Nicolás González Casares (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Oct 2023 · next energy and industrial possible files

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

10 Oct 2023 · Focus on the question of what should be the Green Deal priorities of the next Commission.

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and

10 Oct 2023 · Hydrogen

Tree Energy Solutions urges EU to scale up carbon utilization

31 Aug 2023
Topic — The European Commission is consulting on the role of carbon management technologies in decarbonising the economy.
Message — The company requests a review of EU directives to include carbon utilization and facilitate international CO2 trade. They also call for financial incentives and a clear regulatory framework for tracking carbon transport.123
Why — These measures would allow the company to expand its hydrogen fuel production using current gas networks.4
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Tree Energy Solutions calls for life-cycle shipping emission monitoring

30 Aug 2023
Topic — This consultation defines methods for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.
Message — The organization recommends replacing the tank-to-wake approach with a life-cycle analysis to acknowledge the sustainability of renewable fuels. They request that renewable fuels of non-biogenic origin be fully recognized under the European Emission Trading System.12
Why — This would make the company's renewable gas products more commercially attractive and competitive against fossil fuels.34
Impact — Traditional fossil fuel suppliers lose competitive advantage as their higher upstream emissions are revealed.5
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Meeting with Ditte Juul-Joergensen (Director-General Energy)

12 Jun 2023 · Energy transition

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

24 May 2023 · How to help deliver our EU H2 objectives

Meeting with Diederik Samsom (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and ExxonMobil Petroleum Chemical and

25 Apr 2023 · Energy, environmental and digital challenges of our time

Meeting with Ditte Juul-Joergensen (Director-General Energy)

6 Mar 2023 · Energy markets and energy transition

Meeting with Stefano Grassi (Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson), Tatiana Marquez Uriarte (Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson)

27 Oct 2022 · Hydrogen and decarbonisation of industry

Meeting with Paolo Gentiloni (Commissioner)

11 Oct 2022 · Brief exchange of view on renewable energies

Meeting with Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Riccardo Maggi (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Sarah Nelen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

27 Sept 2022 · Energy crisis response and  Repower EU

Meeting with Tiemo Wölken (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Aug 2022 · Wasserstoff-Infrastruktur

Meeting with Ditte Juul-Joergensen (Director-General Energy)

6 Jul 2022 · Discussion about the uptake of hydrogen and hydrogen infrastructure.

Tree Energy Solutions wants rules to recognize closed-loop carbon use

17 Jun 2022
Topic — The EU is establishing a methodology for calculating greenhouse gas savings from synthetic fuels.
Message — The organization requests including carbon capture and utilization in the emission calculation formula. They also propose an evaluation of carbon availability before the 2035 cutoff for non-sustainable sources.12
Why — These clarifications would secure the regulatory framework for their multi-billion euro methane project.34
Impact — Biodiversity and the land-use sector suffer if inflexible deadlines force excessive biomass burning.5
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Response to Revision of EU rules on Gas

28 Mar 2022

Feedback on Gas Package We welcome the possibility to give feedback on the legislative proposals of the gas package published by the EU Commission on Dec. 15th, 2021. The initiative to introduce renewable and low-carbon gases in the regulatory environment as well as the commitment to reduce methane emissions from fossil as well as renewable and low-carbon sources is highly appreciated. TES is a project promotor developing import terminals for liquefied renewable synthetic methane together with the corresponding CO2 export terminals for transferring back CO2 from synthetic methane use to the place of renewable hydrogen generation and subsequently synthetic methane production. In this cycle, the carbon only serves as a carriers and never leaves the closed loop. We divided our feedback in two parts: The first part gives a reflection on the role of synthetic methane and continues with general remarks and recommendations for amendments of the provisions concerning market design. As these latter issues affect mainly the economic activity of the European TSOs, we rely on their experience to make detailed proposals for rewording and limit ourselves to the definition of guidelines which should be incorporated in further amendments of the text. In the second part directly related to the economic activity of TES, we suggest specific rewordings. These changes mainly arise from the finding that the present legislative proposal lists as hydrogen compounds only ammonia and liquid organic hydrogen carriers but not synthetic methane. In order to gain legal certainty on the underlying regulatory principles of installations treating synthetic methane, we propose to explicitly include this type of hydrogen carrier in the respective provisions.
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Response to Revision of EU rules on Gas

28 Mar 2022

Feedback on Gas Package We welcome the possibility to give feedback on the legislative proposals of the gas package published by the EU Commission on Dec. 15th, 2021. The initiative to introduce renewable and low-carbon gases in the regulatory environment as well as the commitment to reduce methane emissions from fossil as well as renewable and low-carbon sources is highly appreciated. TES is a project promotor developing import terminals for liquefied renewable synthetic methane together with the corresponding CO2 export terminals for transferring back CO2 from synthetic methane use to the place of renewable hydrogen generation and subsequently synthetic methane production. In this cycle, the carbon only serves as a carriers and never leaves the closed loop. We divided our feedback in two parts: The first part gives a reflection on the role of synthetic methane and continues with general remarks and recommendations for amendments of the provisions concerning market design. As these latter issues affect mainly the economic activity of the European TSOs, we rely on their experience to make detailed proposals for rewording and limit ourselves to the definition of guidelines which should be incorporated in further amendments of the text. In the second part directly related to the economic activity of TES, we suggest specific rewordings. These changes mainly arise from the finding that the present legislative proposal lists as hydrogen compounds only ammonia and liquid organic hydrogen carriers but not synthetic methane. In order to gain legal certainty on the underlying regulatory principles of installations treating synthetic methane, we propose to explicitly include this type of hydrogen carrier in the respective provisions.
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