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.
The topic focuses on the development and demonstration at an operational environment of a lightweight, robust, containerised and modular zero-emission transportable of at least 50 kWe fuel cell system to power critical infrastructures in the event of a natural disaster. The system should include all balance of plant components needed for operation.
The demonstration campaign should include the transportation of the fuel cell system, its installation and test at end-user site for at least 2000 hours of cumulative operation epitomising the real load profiles.
The fuel cell system should:
Proposals should address the following:
Proposals should include the development of a strategy for the installation and operation of singular fuel cell systems in a (micro)grid utilising locally existing power supply units. The fuel cell system should be equipped with effective and highly central infrastructure independent tools for digital communication and localisation. In addition to location monitoring, the monitoring of such parameters as the amount of the fuel in the tank, the potential remaining service time (calculated real-time), and electrical parameters such as power, voltage of the system connection system, and the calculated real-time amount of supplied electricity should be considered.
Expected EU contribution: €5.000.000
The consortium should include fuel cell system providers, partners with expertise on power engineering in distributed grids, standards and requirements needed for shipment for containerised operation-ready solutions and at least one end-user for on-site testing and demonstration performed by a tailored combination of hardware, software and virtual reality tools.
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
Postal address: Avenue de la Toison d’Or 56-60, 1060 Brussels, Belgium