WOBO acknowledges the investment within the European Union for hydrogen research and the update from edie.
The EU’s Clean Hydrogen Partnership, a public-private undertaking, has launched its first call for proposals on 41 research topics related to hydrogen. Much of the funding will go towards hydrogen production and storage.
With the EU’s commitment to move away from fossil fuels, green hydrogen is seen as a convenient option.
Hydrogen can be used as a feedstock, fuel, or energy carrier and storage, and has many possible applications across industry, transport, power and buildings sectors, which are seen as hard to decarbonise, the European Commission said in its 2020 hydrogen strategy.
By 2050, the Commission estimates that 24% of global energy demand could be covered by clean hydrogen. For the EU, estimates range from 9 to 14%.
On 1 March, the EU’s Clean Hydrogen Partnership unveiled its first call for proposals, which are part of a strategic research agenda covering 41 research topics ranging from renewable hydrogen production, to storage, distribution and transport.
“This momentous investment is essential to ensure the development of a dynamic hydrogen economy of diverse innovators, manufacturers, producers and end-users across the EU for a sustainable and prosperous hydrogen-based future,” said Bart Biebuyck, executive director of the Clean Hydrogen Partnership, a public-private undertaking.
The partnership’s new research agenda, adopted on 25 February, will see the mobilisation of €600m for various research projects whose cost will be split equally between the EU budget and the private sector participants.
“This call for projects is €300m of the €1bn of public funds that the Clean Hydrogen Partnership has available,” explained René Schutte, director of HyNorth, a branch of Dutch gas company Gasunie. “The call will be matched by at least the same amount of private funds and thus comprises at least €600m,” said Schutte, who sits on the partnership’s governing board. Read more….