Project description
Europe's first large-scale interregional hydrogen valley
Hydrogen valleys present an opportunity to replace energy sources and materials that are environmentally harmful. The adoption of more eco-friendly hydrogen contributes to the improvement of valleys and local economic ecosystems, and significantly benefits the environment. The EU-funded BalticSeaH2 project will establish the first large-scale interregional hydrogen valley in Europe, spanning Estonia and Finland, with a strong focus on sector coupling and system integration. The model will be extended to encompass neighbouring valleys across the Baltic Sea region, creating a highly advantageous hydrogen economy. Key objectives include demonstrating various applications of hydrogen in manufacturing, distribution, and storage across diverse sectors. The findings will be shared collaboratively with other valleys in order to foster widespread progress in the domain of system integration and sector coupling.
Objective
BalticSeaH2 will establish the first, largescale interregional hydrogen valley in Europe. BalticSeaH2 will build a main cross-border Hydrogen Valley between Finland and Estonia and connects it with local valleys in different countries surrounding the Baltic Sea. The ultimate goal is to develop an international hydrogen economy and markets that work optimally both from the technical, economic and environmental perspectives across country borders in the Northern Europe, more specifically around the Baltic Sea.
The project will develop, scale and demonstrate hydrogen use in production, storage and distribution, and in Use Cases in different sectors from industry, mobility and energy. The learnings from the cross-border build-up of a hydrogen economy will be shared with specifically identified Connected Valleys and replicated across borders between them, but furthermore, shared to boost replication and initiate new hydrogen valleys across Europe.
The cross border Main Valley is to be located in the region of Southern Finland – Estonia. These regions are already connected with a natural gas pipeline, transmission cable and maritime operations and the Transmission System Operators (TSO) in both countries collaborate actively in the further development of the cross border infrastructures. The cross border nature of the Main Valley makes is possible to develop cross border markets and businesses for green hydrogen production, transport and use from the start, including also development of cross border neighbouring pricing zones for renewable electricity to reach optimized system, market and business designs for an efficient hydrogen economy.
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- HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility Main Programme
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HORIZON-JU-IA - HORIZON JU Innovation ActionsCoordinator
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02150 Espoo
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12618 Tallinn
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51005 Tartu
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71004 Viljandi
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LT-44403 Kaunas
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51004 Tartu
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10146 Tallinn
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1010 RIGA
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40103 Narva-Joesuu
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12618 Tallinn
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50410 Tartu
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00381 Helsinki
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00090 Helsinki
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00130 Helsinki
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02150 Espoo
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01300 Vantaa
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02150 Espoo
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50-382 WROCLAW
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LV-3401 LIEPAJA
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18119 Rostock
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20810 Turku
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20810 Turku
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06850 Kulloo
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01510 Vantaa
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02150 Espoo
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02150 Espoo
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9500 Hobro
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9000 Aalborg
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3700 Roenne
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1360 Fornebu
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10153 Stockholm
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44000 Nantes
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501 15 Boras
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751 05 Uppsala
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114 27 Stockholm
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12618 Tallinn
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
02150 Espoo
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65170 Vaasa
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22100 MARIEHAMN
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02600 Espoo
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