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3CHAPTER“Through thelooking-glass”The network organiserNetwork organiserThe CCSWeb manager is pretty disappointed. It has not been possible tomobilise the industrial partners in such a way that they framed one projecteligible for the NER300. So no application from his region did occur. This is aserious blow for the CCSWeb project. The manager writes the followingmemo to his Board.Introduction … the first round for NER300 proposals has beenclosed yesterday … 19 applications in Europe; 2 from our CCSpartner Rotterdam … no application from a CCSWeb partner hasbeen made … what should we do next?History … the CCSWeb team has been working hard since 2009 tostimulate all stakeholders in the region in an effort to get several,but at least one, CCS demonstration projects realised before 2020 …the NER300 funding scheme was assessed by us as THE vehicle toget external finance for demonstations inside our region … threepossible candidates emerged from our search process in 2010 andwe helped them to developed and detail their business case … onecandidate was on the brink of deciding to do a FEED study; theothers did not advance further than feasibility studies … at the endof 2010 we tried to combine their efforts into one shared project butthat did not succeed … so the end result is that there is no projectapplicant from CCSWeb for the NER300.Assessment … I am not surprised that our CCS partner Rotterdamdoes have two applicants; they are more advanced in the processand the projects than we are; there was however one project(Pegasus) we were not aware of, although I have contacts withRotterdam on a two-weekly basis; maybe they were surprised aswell … the RCI played an active role in supporting the NER-applicantswith the administration of the application … the quality of theproject we knew (Green Hydrogen) is outstanding; we know of theefforts that my Rotterdam colleagues put into the issue of gettingone combined project proposal which included some form of acommon carrier pipeline in it; we are also aware of the fact that thetender criteria did not allow to apply with a cluster project; but theGreen Hydrogen can be the one that is as close as they could get toa cluster project … on our side we could not succeed in our effort toget one project to apply and thus also not a cluster project … when Ilook back I must say that time was too short and we moved toquickly to forcing the industrial parties to work together … weshould have carried out a better assessment of what would bepossible and not; together with the industrial partners; theresult of that assessment would probably have been:timing is not all right, prepare yourself for the secondround of the NER300 tender … because of that onedimensionalfocus on getting one project applicationready before the 9th of February 2011, wedid not prepare ourselves to be ready for communicatingthe negative message of yesterday … there is nocommunication plan ready for today’s results … and youhave seen in today’s newspapers that this does not leadto a well balanced reporting on the CCSWeb.50