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Welcome to the IPCEI Hydrogen website!

IPCEI Hydrogen is aimed at innovation as well as demonstration and deployment of hydrogen technology. IPCEI Hydrogen consists of four combined clusters of projects from more than half of the European Union member states and from Norway. The projects take place in the complete value chain of hydrogen: production, import, transportation as well as end use.

Currently two clusters of projects – or “waves” – have been notified by the European Commission under State Aid rules. The first wave is called “Hy2Tech” and the second wave is called “Hy2Use”. These two waves consist of almost 80 projects, which are large in size individually: project budgets range from several million euro’s to several hundreds of millions of euro’s per project.

This home page gives access to more general information. Descriptions of the projects, which are clustered under a number of Technology Fields per wave can be found via the following entries:

The latest news

News Article

24 October 2024

2024 Innovation Fund grants: hydrogen projects account for 30% of total awards

The EU Innovation Fund has awarded grant allocation of €4.8 billion to 85 innovative projects, with hydrogen projects making up one third of total awards. This significant funding initiative marks the largest allocation since the fund’s inception in 2020, increasing the overall support to €12 billion and expanding the number of projects by 70%.

Observatory update

21 October 2024

At the beginning of October, many of our datasets have been updated featuring the latest available data

Derived from data collected up to September 2024, various datasets are updated with the latest available data, such as and among many others, the hydrogen production and hydrogen demand datasets. Moreover, some dashboards have also been improved, allowing for more user-friendly exploration and availability of multi-year data.

News Article

18 October 2024

Germany allocates €2.8bn for decarbonisation, including H2

The German government has allocated €2.8bn ($3bn) in funding to accelerate decarbonisation efforts, with up to five hydrogen-based projects expected to receive a share of the support.

Documents

2024-05 Commission approves up to 1.4 billion of State aid by seven Member States for the fourth Important Project of Common European Interest in the hydrogen value chain.pdf English (145 KB - PDF)

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2024-02 Statement by Executive Vice-President Vestager on the Important Project of Common European Interest Hy2Infra.pdf English (36 KB - PDF)

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2024-02 Commission approves up to 6.9 billion of State aid by seven Member States for the third Important Project of Common European Interest in the hydrogen value chain.pdf English (344 KB - PDF)

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2022-09 Commission approves up to 5.2 billion euro support by 13 Member States for IPCEI Hy2Use.pdf English (660 KB - PDF)

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2022-09 Commission approves up to 5.2 billion euro of public support by thirteen Member States - IPCEI Hy2Use.pdf English (161 KB - PDF)

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2022-07 State Aid - Commission approves up to 5.4 billion euro of public support by fifteen Member States - IPCEI Hy2Tech.pdf.pdf English (347 KB - PDF)