The Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking or Clean Hydrogen Partnership is a unique public-private partnership supporting research and innovation (R&I) activities in hydrogen technologies in Europe. It builds upon the success of its predecessor, the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking.
This topic focuses on the production of clean hydrogen and its integration into those industries, within a circular approach. The long-term target (proposals should contribute to it) is to ensure continuous supply of clean hydrogen to those industries, at competitive costs compared to incumbent technologies. It is open to any production technology, and even combination of production technologies, as long as they operate from renewable input. This topic is suitable, but not limited to, a further expansion of a successful smaller project, a demonstration into a sector not yet covered by on-going initiatives, or an innovative demonstration of clean hydrogen production technology (or combination of technologies).
The scope of this topic is to demonstrate the integration of clean hydrogen production and supply to Energy Intensive and/or Specialty Chemical Industries for any combined applications (e.g. feedstock, heat and power generation, amalgamation with CO2, CO or N2 to generate synthetic fuels or hydrogen carriers, etc.) within a prism where circularity and sustainability are central, thereby considering transformation of waste into feedstock and/or capture and integration of any by-products from hydrogen production.
Proposals should cover the following aspects:
Proposals should demonstrate how the circularity approach (e.g. use of by-products, transformation of a waste into a feedstock) is tackled, together with sustainability aspects such as, but not limited to, water management. The use of artificial intelligence and any other digital tools aiming at increasing safety and optimisation of operations is encouraged. Performance should be measured mainly against energy savings and GHG emission avoidance.
Costs for the development and integration of clean hydrogen technologies allowing supply of hydrogen/oxygen/by-products/ etc to the industries targeted are in the scope of the topic and may be funded. Any upstream (such as renewable energy technologies) or downstream processes (such as production of e-fuels, ammonia, chemicals) are in the scope of the topic within the circularity approach but will not be funded.
Proposals should provide a preliminary draft on ‘hydrogen safety planning and management’ at the project level, which will be further updated during project implementation.
This topic is expected to contribute to EU competitiveness and industrial leadership by supporting a European value chain for hydrogen and fuel cell systems and components.
This applies to the demonstration of innovative hydrogen production for energy intensive industries and the chemical sectors, demonstration of innovative technologies for the distribution of hydrogen including multi-purpose hydrogen refueling infrastructure, demonstration of hydrogen-powered inland shipping or short sea shipping solutions.
Expected EU contribution: €10.000.000
Consortium may seek out the issuance and subsequent cancellation of GOs from the relevant Member State issuing body and if that is not yet available the consortium may proceed with the issuance and cancellation of non-governmental certificates (e.g CertifHy).
At least one partner in the consortium must be a member of either Hydrogen Europe or Hydrogen Europe Research.
An additional obligation regarding subcontracting has been introduced, namely that subcontracted work may only be performed in target countries set out in the call conditions.
The beneficiaries must ensure that the subcontracted work is performed in the countries set out in the call conditions.
The target countries are all Member States of the European Union and all Associated Countries.
Email: info@clean-hydrogen.europa.eu
Phone number: +32 22218148
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