Hydrogen territories
To develop and deploy replicable, balanced and integrated fuel cell and hydrogen solutions in both energy and transport fields through strong partnerships between municipalities, industries and academia in European isolated territories disconnected to the main or national electrical grid.
These solutions will demonstrate an integrated hydrogen economy concept focused on small off-grid areas. The hydrogen territory proposals should primarily target transport and energy replicable demonstration applications such as vehicle fleets powered by hydrogen for public and/or private transport, including logistics and/or freight-distribution, MW capacity production of green hydrogen, hydrogen storage for balancing the grid and supply to a hydrogen refuelling station as well as large stationary fuel cell systems for distributed generation and other relevant commercial or industrial applications.
The proposals should address the following main areas:
- Near/fully autonomous hydrogen bui
Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies are often described as very promising solutions that will help to reshape a new society model as it would guaranty secure, clean and efficient energy solutions while also offering smart, green and integrated transport solutions. However, transport and energy are often treated separately within the FCH JU funding framework programme, thereby reducing the opportunities to demonstrate pioneer hydrogen economy models at territories levels.
Therefore, this topic aims to support territories where there is a strong political commitment to deploy ambitious and innovative hydrogen-integrated transport and energy demonstration projects in European Territories.
This particular “Hydrogen territories” topic is focused on the deployment of hydrogen technologies in European isolated territories in order to prove the viability and feasibility of hydrogen economy concept in off-grid areas.
The proposals are expected to have the following impacts:
- deploy and demonstrate wide-scale, innovative replicable and integrated hydrogen energy solutions in both energy and transport
- increase the energy efficiency of isolated territories and valorise the use of renewables for integration of hydrogen-energy solutions and enable active participation of consumers
- demonstrate the positive impact of electrolysis on grid balancing
- increase mobility efficiency with lower emissions of pollutants and CO2. The proposals will have to specify key objectives and indicators such as gCO2/km for Well to Wheel analysis
- reduce the energy costs; The consortium will have to commit itself to reaching targets for energy cost reduction
- respect Key Performance Indicators described in the MAWP for both hydrogen transport and energy applications and technologies used in the project
- conclude on a business model for the use of h