West Coast Hydrogen Valley submitted
We are pleased to announce that we have completed the work on a project application for a Large Scale Hydrogen Valley, with several of the members interested in hydrogen participating. The application has now been submitted, and a decision is expected in the month transition of July/August.
Since October last year, the consortium within the West Coast Hydrogen Valley project, funded by Climate Leading Process Industry, has been working on developing a successful application to the Clean Hydrogen Partnership for a Large Scale Hydrogen Valley.
This is a unique opportunity for financing the common challenges surrounding enabling actors in the region to obtain fossil-free hydrogen in the right timing. Besides providing economic support for investments in demonstration facilities by contributing actors in the project through a Hydrogen Valley, a granted application also opens doors to obtaining additional financing for other investments required for industry transformation and emission reduction.
"Climate Leading Process Industry financing an application to Horizon Europe for a West Swedish Hydrogen Valley is crucial support for accelerating the transition in the region. Access to hydrogen and ultimately electricity is essential to secure both current and future jobs while the climate transition in the industry continues. Now we hope the application will be approved," says Anders Carlberg, regional developer at the Västra Götaland Region.
The main goal of the application to the Clean Hydrogen Partnership for a Large Scale Hydrogen Valley is to create conditions for the production, integration, and utilization of green hydrogen across the entire value chain in Western Sweden. The aim is to simultaneously develop replicable business models that can serve as the basis for extensive commercial deployment of hydrogen within the entire regional energy system.
The project aims, among other things, to maximize the integration of renewable energy sources available in the region, both onshore (wind and solar) and offshore wind power, by using hydrogen as: (i) a storage medium to manage weather-dependent and limitations in transmission capacity in the electricity grid; and (ii) integration of and complement to renewable energy sources to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from industry, heat production, and transportation.
Maria Edvall
