Six European clean hydrogen projects among recipients of €4.8bn in grants from EU’s Innovation Fund
The European Commission today selected 85 netzero projects across Europe to receive a total of €4.8bn ($5.2bn) from the EU Innovation Fund — including six clean hydrogen projects.
This includes four green H2 projects — one each in Belgium, France, Finland and Germany — as well as one blue hydrogen facility in Belgium and a waste-to-H2 plant in Sweden.
There were also eight awards for the manufacture of electrolysers or electrolyser parts, which will be detailed in a separate article.
The green hydrogen projects will deliver a total of 61,000 of renewable fuels of nonbiological origin (RFNBOs — the EU term for green hydrogen and its derivatives) annually, “contributing to increase the use and production of renewable energy in hydrogen in hard-to-abate applications in industry and transport”, said the European Commission.
The grant-winning clean-hydrogen projects are:
1) H2HubEmden (Germany)
This green hydrogen and heating project, being developed by Norwegian utility Statkraft, will see a 200MW electrolyser installed at an existing power plant in Emden, with waste heat and large-scale heat pumps used for district heating.
2) H2BE (Belgium)
This 1GW blue hydrogen project, being developed by French utility Engie and Norwegian oil giant Equinor, aims to produce 210,000 tonnes of H2 by 2030 from natural gas using autothermal reforming (ATR) combined with carbon capture and storage. (NB: The EU lists the applicant as Engie subsidiary Electrabel)
3) ENHANCE (European Network for Hydrogen and Ammonia Carbon-Neutral Energy) (Belgium)
No details are available for this Belgian facility, being developed by France’s Air Liquide — the only mention of the project on the internet is from today’s announcement, although the European Commission lists it as involving “RFNBO ammonia and liquefaction of renewable hydrogen”.
It could be a new name for a project announced in March 2023 to import green ammonia and crack it into hydrogen at the Port of Antwerp.
4) HydroGreen (Finland)
This project by Solvay Chemicals will see a 30MW electrolyser installed at its factory in Kouvola to produce green hydrogen for the manufacture of hydrogen peroxide.
5) HYODE (HYdrogen Offshore DunkerquE) (France)
EDF plans to couple offshore wind with an offshore electrolyser to produce of green hydrogen near Dunkirk, northern France.
6) Köping Hydrogen Park (Sweden)
This project, being developed by technology company Plagazi, plans to use a patented plasma gasification system to turn 66,000 tonnes of hard-to-recycle waste a year into 12,000 tonnes of hydrogen annually at a plant in the municipality of Köping, central Sweden.
The size of the grants for each of these projects will not be publicly revealed until developers have signed their grant agreements.
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