Innovation Fund 2024 Auction - Fixed Premium Auction for RFNBO hydrogen production for the maritime sector

Topic updates

21 May 2025

The results of the evaluation for the auction call InnovFund-2024-AUC-RFNBO-Hydrogen are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted: 61

Number of inadmissible proposals: 10

Number of ineligible proposals: 1

Number of above-threshold proposals: 34

Number of below-threshold proposals: 16

Total budget requested by all submitted bids: EUR 4,885,162,106 (almost 4 times the available auction volume of EUR 1,200 million)

Number of proposals retained for funding: 15

See press release for more details.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1264

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

03 February 2025

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Innovation Fund 2024 Auction - Fixed Premium Auction for RFNBO hydrogen production for the maritime sector

TOPIC ID: INNOVFUND-2024-AUC-RFNBOH2-MARITIME

Type of grant: Call for proposals

General information

Programme: Innovation Fund (INNOVFUND)

Call: Innovation Fund 2024 Auction - RFNBO Hydrogen (InnovFund-2024-AUC-RFNBO-Hydrogen)

Type of action: INNOVFUND-FPAUC-UN INNOVFUND Fixed Premium Auction Unit Grants

Type of MGA: INNOVFUND Unit Grant [INNOVFUND-AG-UN]

Status: Open for submission

Deadline model: single-stage

Opening Date: 03 December 2024

Deadline dates: 20 February 2025 17:00 (Brussels time)

Topic description

Scope:

This call is an auction call, i.e. a call that is awarded based on a competitive bidding procedure on price and therefore subject to specific conditions (e.g. auction terms and conditions, fair bid conditions, completion guarantee, etc)

The present call is an auction call for renewable fuel of non-biological origin (RFNBO) hydrogen, as defined in the Renewable Energy Directive 2018/2021. The bid price is the requested unit contribution (fixed premium) per kg of RFNBO hydrogen production which will be paid for a maximum period of up to 10 years.

The following activities can be funded:

Installation of new RFNBO hydrogen capacity (i.e. hydrogen production capacity for which at the time of the grant application the start of works did not yet take place) as well as the verified and certified production of RFNBO hydrogen from those installations (in kg of produced volume) for a period of up to 10 years.

Only projects with a minimum installed capacity of the electrolyser of at least 5 MWe will be eligible.

Start submission

To access the Electronic Submission Service, please click on the submission-button next to the type of action and the type of model grant agreement that corresponds to your proposal. You will then be asked to confirm your choice, as it cannot be changed in the submission system. Upon confirmation, you will be linked to the correct entry point.

To access existing draft proposals for this topic, please login to the Funding & Tenders Portal and select the My Proposals page of the My Area section.

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InnovFund helpdesk – Contact the InnovFund helpdesk for questions specifically related to the call documentation, application and evaluation process.

IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.

Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes.