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Hydrogen in Bremen: Innovations in Mobility, Ports And the Clean Transformation

Project description

Shaping Bremen’s path to a hydrogen economy

Bremen is positioning itself as a global leader in renewable hydrogen innovation, leveraging its industrial ecosystem to boost the clean energy transition. The EU-funded H2B-IMPACT project will help in this mission by integrating hydrogen production and distribution across various sectors including mobility, construction and logistics. It will build on an existing ecosystem featuring over 3 600 tonnes of renewable hydrogen produced annually and 25.1 MW of new electrolyser capacity. Supported by EUR 70 million in investments and a consortium of industry leaders and researchers, H2B-IMPACT is poised to set a benchmark for hydrogen adoption while fostering collaboration with other hydrogen valleys worldwide.

Objective

H2B:IMPACT will deploy and consolidate a flagship H2 Valley in The Federal State of Bremen demonstrating the integration of 5 innovative offtaking testbeds in the mobility, construction, logistics and industrial sectors, off taking over 1500 tonnes of H2. The project will built upon a mature existing ecosystem, deploying 25.1 MW of new electrolyser capacity, producing over 3600 tonnes of renewable H2 in 3 full-fledged VCs including production, distribution (both centralized and decentralized) and offtake. The VCs operate in synergy and symbiosis facilitated by state of the art interoperability and optimized logistics systems for balancing and cost-efficiency purposes. The project is backed by a wide plethora of key industrial actors, leading knowledge institutions, innovative SMEs and industry experts, joining forces in deploying the next beyond-state-of-art flagship H2 valley. We will carry out ambitious techno-economic research, connect with 6 replicating valleys and 4 observers, integrate a sophisticated social science and humanities programme to maximize social impact/engagement, facilitate training for professionals, students, civil servants on safety and project results, develop scalability plans and work together in the vast hydrogen valley networks of the consortium on sharing knowledge and skills development. H2B:IMPACT will trigger 70 ME of investments, foster innovation, accelerate the clean transition, and will improve industrial competitiveness of a highly industrialized region while demonstrating massive impact. Performances and impacts of H2B:IMPACT will be monitored across 2 years of full operations, ensuring the highest level of interoperability, harmonization and orchestration of assets. Social, technical, environmental and safety impacts will be assessed in great detail and shared via the H2 valley observatory platform. The consortium congregates experts from DE, NL, ES, EL, PT, BE, IT, UK, DK, FR, Peru, Australia, Canada, Nigeria and Japan.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-JU-IA - HORIZON JU Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025

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Coordinator

FREIE HANSESTADT BREMEN
Net EU contribution
€ 1 316 245,05
Address
AM MARKT 21
28195 Bremen
Germany
Region
Bremen Bremen Bremen, Kreisfreie Stadt
Activity type
Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
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