René Peters is responsible for innovation in renewable gas at TNO, a Research and Technology Organisation of the Netherlands (www.tno.nl). This includes research on production of (renewable) gas, transport and storage, biogas, CO2 and hydrogen. He received this PhD thesis at the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1993. He started his career at Shell Research (1993 – 1998), after which he served in several technical, commercial and managerial positions in TNO since 1999. His current position is business director Energy Infrastructure. He is also managing the Dutch National Innovation Program on Geo Energy within TKI New Gas. He is an advisor to the Dutch Government as a member of the ‘’council of experts’’ for the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and, he is a board member of the Maritime and Offshore NL branch organization for the maritime and offshore sector and also board member of the WEC NL, the world energy council Dutch section. He is member of the program board of the North Sea Energy program on system integration in offshore energy (www.north-sea-energy.eu) and coordinator of the national innovation program on hydrogen import, transport and storage (HyTROS and HyIMPACT) under the GroenvermogenNL program.