REVISTA DYNA ENERGÍA

It had 41 projects from 35 companies at the time of approval, submitted by 15 Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Estonia. Its purpose is to act as a pioneer and facilitator for all other projects, by advancing relevant technologies in the fields of hydrogen production, infrastructure and utilisation for commercial and economic exploitation. It focuses on the production of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen using mainly electrolysis. The use of hydrogen in fuel cells, storage, transport and distribution, followed by end use in industry and transport, with a clear emphasis on the mobility sector.
Hy2Use
35 projects from 29 companies were approved and a further 2 projects from 2 companies were processed by the European Free Trade Association. This total of 37 projects were submitted by 13 Member States plus Norway: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and Finland. It will cover a broad 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 with the greatest decarbonisation challenges, such as steel, cement and glass, thereby reducing dependence on natural gas.
Hy2Infra
This group, prepared and requested by seven Member States: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Slovakia, has recently been approved. It targets infrastructure issues, which are not covered by the first two. It comprises the deployment of large electrolysers (up to a total of 3.2 GW), transport and distribution pipelines (about 2,700 km), large-scale storage facilities (at least up to 370 GWh) and the construction of handling terminals and related port infrastructure for liquid hydrogen carriers (LOHC) for handling 6,000 T per year.