Ten European Clean Hydrogen Projects Receive €4.8bn in EU Innovation Fund Grants

The European Commission has selected 85 net-zero projects across Europe, allocating €4.8bn ($5.2bn) in grants from the EU Innovation Fund, with ten clean hydrogen initiatives among the recipients.

These include eight green hydrogen projects and one blue hydrogen facility, as well as a waste-to-hydrogen plant. The green hydrogen projects are spread across Finland, Belgium, France, Spain, Denmark, and Germany, while Belgium will host the blue hydrogen facility, and Sweden will have the waste-to-hydrogen plant.

The green hydrogen projects are expected to produce 61,000 tonnes of renewable fuels of non-biological origin (RFNBOs) annually, boosting the use of renewable energy in hard-to-decarbonize industries and transport.

The funded hydrogen projects are:

1. H2HubEmden (Germany) – A green hydrogen and heating project by Statkraft, awarded up to €107m to install a 200MW electrolyser, producing 20,000 tonnes of hydrogen annually.

2. H2BE (Belgium) – A 1GW blue hydrogen project by Engie and Equinor, targeting 210,000 tonnes of hydrogen annually by 2030 using carbon capture.

3. ENHANCE (Belgium) – A project by Air Liquide involving renewable ammonia and hydrogen liquefaction.

4. HydroGreen (Finland) – A project by Solvay Chemicals, installing a 30MW electrolyser to produce green hydrogen for hydrogen peroxide production.

5. HYODE (France) – An EDF project using offshore wind and electrolysis to produce green hydrogen near Dunkirk.

6. Köping Hydrogen Park (Sweden) – Plagazi’s facility will convert 66,000 tonnes of waste into 12,000 tonnes of hydrogen annually using plasma gasification.

7. Gaia: Green Ammonia (Spain) – Fertiberia will produce green ammonia for fertilizer production in northern Spain.

8. GreenWave (Denmark) – A Power-to-X project by European Energy, set to produce over 100,000 tonnes of green methanol annually by 2028/29.

9. eNRG Kotka (Finland) – Nordic Ren-Gas’s project will produce 18,000 tonnes of hydrogen and 35,000 tonnes of synthetic methane annually for heavy transport.

10. Zesta (Belgium) – ArcelorMittal’s project will produce renewable hydrogen for steelmaking using electric arc furnaces and blast-furnace technology.

Grant details will be disclosed once agreements with developers are finalized.