A SME, based in Latvia is looking for partners to work on HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2024-06-02

Comperio is an SME, based in Latvia, that specialises in communication and dissemination. Our team has substantial experience in writing proposals for our clients in Latvia and implementing them at the national level, we are eager to become part of an international consortium to reach new horizons. While our company hasn't yet been involved in a Horizon Europe project, our team members have actively participated in projects under both Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.

Small-scale Hydrogen Valley

TOPIC ID: HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2024-06-02

Topic description

ExpectedOutcome:

Hydrogen Valleys are hydrogen ecosystems that cover a specific geography ranging from local or regional focus (e.g. industrial cluster, ports, airports, etc.) to specific national or international regions (e.g. cross border hydrogen corridors) [https://h2v.eu/media/7/download] Hydrogen Valleys showcase the versatility of hydrogen by supplying several sectors in their geography such as mobility, industry and energy end uses. They are ecosystems or clusters where various final applications share a common hydrogen supply infrastructure. Across their geographic scope, Hydrogen Valleys cover multiple steps in the hydrogen value chain, ranging from hydrogen production (and often even dedicated renewables production) to the subsequent storage of hydrogen and distribution to off-takers via various modes of transport. Whilst most of the projects are in the EU, over the past years, Hydrogen Valleys have gone global, with new projects emerging worldwide. Mission Innovation has set a target of deploying 100 large-scale Hydrogen Valleys worldwide by 2030.

Hydrogen Valleys are starting to form the first regional "hydrogen economies”. Already under the previous programme, the Clean Hydrogen Partnership provided support to several Hydrogen Valleys across different locations in EU and of different sizes. It is however necessary to continue the accelerated deployment of Hydrogen Valleys as required by RePowerEU (with a target to double the number of hydrogen valleys by 2025) and to contribute to the objectives of the European Hydrogen Strategy, the EU Green Deal, and Fit for 55, and finally overcome common challenges linked to storage and distribution that may be territory specific. To do this it is necessary to have ‘testbed’ projects to act as first real-life cases for piloting global hydrogen markets. These projects need to be expanded in scale to demonstrate the full range of benefits from the use of hydrogen.

Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:

• Anchorage of new demand for renewable hydrogen;
• Full integration into the broader energy ecosystem;
• Improvement of the perception of public towards hydrogen technologies, by ensuring a high visibility of the project and associated technologies to the local public and EU citizens;
• Emergence of new hydrogen valleys, through dissemination of learnings.

Scope:

The scope of this flagship topic is to develop and demonstrate a small-scale Hydrogen Valley. It could demonstrate a combination of technologies either in existing and/or new markets for clean hydrogen, especially when applications are used in symbiose with each other.

Proposals should demonstrate innovative approaches at system level: global and synergetic integration of hydrogen production (not restricted to electrolysis), distribution and end-use technologies. Proposals may also investigate interoperability, cause-effect stability of the overall system. Technologies demonstrated should be state-of the-art following technological developments previously funded by (but not limited to) the Clean Hydrogen Partnership.

Please, visit the following page to get more information regarding this call:https://www.developmentaid.org/grants/view/1238129/small-scale-hydrogen-valley?useNavigation=true