Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
Evropska komisija je objavila razpis Hydrogen Valleys (large-scale), TOPIC ID: HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-06-01.
Scope:
A Hydrogen Valley is a defined geographical area where hydrogen serves more than one end sector or application in mobility, industry and energy. They typically comprise a multi-million euro investment and cover all necessary steps in the hydrogen value chain, from production (and often even dedicated renewable electricity production) to subsequent storage and its transport & distribution to various off-takers. Whilst most of the projects are located in Europe, over the past years, Hydrogen Valleys have gone global, with new projects emerging worldwide.
Hydrogen Valleys are starting to form first regional "hydrogen economies”. Already under the FCH JU provided support to a number of Hydrogen Valleys[2] across different locations in Europe and of different sizes. It is however still necessary to accelerate the deployment of additional Hydrogen Valleys already now in view of the objectives of the European hydrogen strategy[3]. To do this it is necessary to have testbed projects to act as first real-life cases for piloting global hydrogen markets. These projects needs to be expanded in scale to demonstrate the full range of benefits from the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier. This topic addresses this need by calling for a Hydrogen Valley of a large scale with high levels of hydrogen production. It also intends to stimulate the activation of hydrogen markets that go beyond the boundaries the Hydrogen Valley location.
The scope of this topic is to develop, deploy and demonstrate a large-scale hydrogen valley with interlinkages to other places of hydrogen production and/or consumptions outside its boundaries. The size and other characteristics are given further below. To increase the impact, it is encouraged to accommodate these requirements across two separate interconnected valleys located in different intra-EU regions[4] whether within the same Member State/Associated country or not; in such cases, exchange of hydrogen is expected to exceed 20% of the overall annual production in order to have a meaningful impact, and individual regions would not be required to achieve the minimum project size of 5,000 tonnes/yr (outlined below) but would still be required to demonstrate minimum thresholds for percentages dedicated to end uses in various sectors as outlined below.
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