THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY BETS ON HYDROGEN

The first two were launched as early as 2022 and the second two will be officially announced in 2023 and 2024.
Hy2Tech
It had 41 projects from 35 companies at the time of its approval, presented by 15 member states: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Slovakia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Portugal. Its purpose is to serve as a pioneer and facilitator of all other projects, through the advancement of relevant technologies in the fields of hydrogen production, infrastructure and utilisation for commercial and economic exploitation. It focuses on the production of renewable, low-carbon hydrogen using mainly electrolysis. The use of hydrogen in fuel cells, storage, transport and distribution, followed by final use in industry and transport, with a clear emphasis on the mobility sector.
Hy2Use
35 projects from 29 companies were approved and another 2 projects from 2 companies were processed by the European Free Trade Association. These 37 projects were presented by 13 member states plus Norway: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Slovakia, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Sweden. It will cover a large part of the hydrogen value chain by supporting the construction of infrastructure, especially large-scale electrolysers and transport infrastructure, for the production, storage and transport of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and the development of innovative and more sustainable technologies for the integration of hydrogen into industrial processes in multiple sectors, especially those that present greater difficulties for decarbonisation, such as steel, cement and glass, thus reducing dependence on natural gas.
Hy2Infra
This group, prepared and requested by seven Member States, has recently been approved: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Slovakia. It focuses on infrastructure issues, which are not covered by the first two groups. It includes the deployment of large electrolyser plants (up to a total of 3.2 GW), transport and distribution pipelines (around 2,700 km), large-scale storage facilities (at least up to 370 GWh) and the construction of handling terminals and related port infrastructures for liquid hydrogen carriers (LOHC) for the handling of 6,000 tonnes per year.