- Posted 21-Jun-2021
Hydrogen: Commission presents a guide on public funding opportunities for hydrogen projects at the third edition of the European Hydrogen Forum
On 17 and 18 June, the European Hydrogen Forum 2021 took place bringing together over 1400 members of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance, coming from public authorities, industry and civil society. Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans and Commissioner Thierry Breton attended the opening of the Forum
The Hydrogen Forum is launching a matchmaking process providing members with a platform to exchange, discuss projects and explore joining forces. With this, the Commission aims to bring together various actors in the EU hydrogen value chain ranging from hydrogen production to hydrogen application notably in industry, transport and energy sectors. At the Forum, the Commission presented the Hydrogen Public Funding Compass, an online guide on public funding instruments at EU and national level, supporting renewable and low-carbon hydrogen projects. The guide helps stakeholders identify relevant programmes and funds and find out which projects they can finance, what type of funding is available and which conditions apply.
The Alliance members discussed how to use hydrogen technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in industry, transport, energy and buildings sectors and help the EU meet its climate neutrality objectives. The EU has secured a lead in many hydrogen technologies, which now need to be rapidly and decisively rolled out and applied. In May, the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance collected almost 1000 renewable and low-carbon projects that Alliance members are planning to implement by 2030 to produce almost 9 m tonnes of mostly renewable hydrogen per year. The projects collected moreover confirm that clean hydrogen consumption is set to take off on a large scale in the next three to four years, helping the EU meet its climate change objectives. More information on the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance is available here. The speeches of Executive Vice-President Timmermans and Commissioner Breton are available online, here and here.
Source: European Commission I Daily News (https://bit.ly/2S3hhNO)