CLEAN HYDROGEN PARTNERSHIP

CLEAN HYDROGEN (JOINT UNDERTAKING) PARTNERSHIP IS A EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM AIMED AT DEVELOPING H2 AS A RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SOURCE

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 Valerie Bouillon-Delporte was appointed the new Executive Director of the Clean Hydrogen Partnership in 1st June 2024

"I’m honoured and thrilled to join the Clean Hydrogen Partnership as Executive Director. Since its inception in 2008 it has brilliantly demonstrated its true value by making hydrogen technologies a key pillar to support the EU in its aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. These years of supporting research and innovation have put the EU in the global lead for key hydrogen technologies, covering the complete value chain. I will be fully committed with my whole team to make sure that the Clean Hydrogen Partnership will support, through its programs and actions, both industry and research stakeholders in order for them to remain at the forefront of hydrogen technologies. As a public private partnership, we have this unique opportunity to create a robust hydrogen value chain in Europe" said Ms. Bouillon-Delporte.

Ms. Bouillon-Delporte brings a wealth of experience to the role, having dedicated her career to advancing hydrogen technologies.

Prior to this appointment, she served as the Hydrogen Ecosystem Director at Michelin, where she played a pivotal role in the development and deployment of hydrogen solutions. Her leadership extends to her tenure as Board member and Co-President of the French Hydrogen Association, as well as her coordination of the H2 Mobility France consortium.

Ms. Bouillon-Delporte has also made significant contributions as the former President of Hydrogen Europe, the European association of hydrogen industries. Additionally, she has chaired the governing board of the Fuel Cell Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, the precursor to the Clean Hydrogen Partnership, where she championed research, technological development, and demonstration activities in fuel cell and hydrogen energy technologies across Europe.

Ms. Bouillon-Delporte will take over from Mirela Atanasiu, who acted as ad interim and acting Executive Director for the past year and will continue supporting the JU in her permanent role as Head of Unit of Operations and Communications. "It has been a pleasure to ensure the success of the JU and its programme office team while committing an unprecedented budget of EUR 500 million over the past year and starting all current JU activities. I warmly welcome Valérie Bouillon-Delporte and look forward to continuing our efforts together to advance the development of the hydrogen economy within the partnership " said Ms. Atanasiu.

The Clean Hydrogen Partnership's main objective is to contribute to EU Green Deal and Hydrogen Strategy through optimised funding of R&I activities. The Clean Hydrogen Partnership is the successor of the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking (FCH 2 JU) and has taken over its legacy portfolio as of 30 November 2021.

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WHAT IS HORIZON EUROPE?

Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of €95.5 billion.

It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth.

The programme facilitates collaboration and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in developing, supporting and implementing EU policies while tackling global challenges. It supports creating and better dispersing of excellent knowledge and technologies.

It creates jobs, fully engages the EU’s talent pool, boosts economic growth, promotes industrial competitiveness and optimises investment impact within a strengthened European Research Area.

Legal entities from the EU and associated countries can participate.

NEW ELEMENTS IN HORIZON EUROPE

- European Innovation Council: Support for innovations with potential breakthrough and disruptive nature with scale-up potential that may be too risky for private investors. This is 70% of the budget earmarked for SMEs.

- Missions: Sets of measures to achieve bold, inspirational and measurable goals within a set timeframe. There are 5 main mission areas as part of Horizon Europe.

- Open science policy: Mandatory open access to publications and open science principles are applied throughout the programme

- New approach to partnerships: Objective-driven and more ambitious partnerships with industry in support of EU policy objectives

BART BIEBUYCK & PHILIPPE VANNSON - The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Undertaking (FCH JU) are working to facilitate the market introduction of FCH technologies in Europe and realise their potential in a carbon-clean energy system. They do this by implementing research and innovation (R&I) programmes in order to develop a portfolio of clean, efficient solutions that exploit the properties of hydrogen as an energy carrier and fuel cells as energy converters, to the point of market readiness.

FCH-JU STORY

The story of FCH JU begins with the High Level Group on Hydrogen, when Romano Prodi and former European Commissioners Loyola de Palacio and Philippe Busquin laid the grounds for the creation of FCH JU. The High Level Group was an informal body with an advisory role. It involved 19 hydrogen-power stakeholders and included representatives of the research community, industry, public authorities and end-users. Together, they outlined the steps needed to enable a sustainable hydrogen-oriented economy.

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The electrolyzer has a scalable system design. One system produces 2,150 Nm³/h hydrogen at 30 bar(g) with a power consumption of 4.7 kWh/Nm³.

Nm3/hr = Normal Meter Cubed per Hour. Unit used to measure gas flow rate. The 'Normal' refers to normal conditions of 0degC and 1 atm (standard atmosphere = 101.325 kPa) – for practicle purposes this is rounded to 1 bar.

CONTACTS

CELLS HYDROGEN PARTNERSHIP
Avenue de la Toison d'Or 56-60, B-1060 Brussels

https://www.clean-hydrogen.europa.eu/index_en

Tel.: +32 2 221 81 48
Email: info@clean-hydrogen.europa.eu

Hydrogen powered electric buses are becoming very popular. With exchange refuelling using high pressure gas cartridges, or liquid hydrogen cartridges, coaches and trucks might have unlimited ranges. We hope this is a topic of discussion at the forthcoming UN COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland in November 2021.

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