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Welcome to the IPCEI Hydrogen website!


IPCEI Hydrogen is aimed at innovation as well as demonstration and deployment of hydrogen technology. IPCEI Hydrogen consists of four combined clusters of projects from more than half of the European Union member states and from Norway. The projects take place in the complete value chain of hydrogen: production, import, transportation as well as end use.

Currently two clusters of projects – or “waves” – have been notified by the European Commission under State Aid rules. The first wave is called “Hy2Tech” and the second wave is called “Hy2Use”. These two waves consist of almost 80 projects, which are large in size individually: project budgets range from several million euro’s to several hundreds of millions of euro’s per project.

This home page gives access to more general information. Descriptions of the projects, which are clustered under a number of Technology Fields per wave can be found via the following entries:

The latest news
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9 February 2026
The largest Polish energy group, Orlen has opened its fifth hydrogen refuelling station in Poland, the company announced.
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5 February 2026
Italy has formally transposed the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive III (RED III) into national law, reinstating binding targets for renewable fuels of non-biological origin (RFNBO), including renewable hydrogen, in both industry and transport.
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3 February 2026
The first pipeline section of the Dutch hydrogen network in Rotterdam has been filled with green hydrogen, marking a significant milestone in the development of the infrastructure that will soon make up the backbone of the hydrogen market in the Netherlands and ultimately the whole of Europe.

Documents

2024-05 Commission approves up to 1.4 billion of State aid by seven Member States for the fourth Important Project of Common European Interest in the hydrogen value chain.pdf English (145 KB - PDF)
2024-02 Statement by Executive Vice-President Vestager on the Important Project of Common European Interest Hy2Infra.pdf English (36 KB - PDF)
2024-02 Commission approves up to 6.9 billion of State aid by seven Member States for the third Important Project of Common European Interest in the hydrogen value chain.pdf English (344 KB - PDF)
2022-09 Commission approves up to 5.2 billion euro support by 13 Member States for IPCEI Hy2Use.pdf English (660 KB - PDF)
2022-09 Commission approves up to 5.2 billion euro of public support by thirteen Member States - IPCEI Hy2Use.pdf English (161 KB - PDF)
2022-07 State Aid - Commission approves up to 5.4 billion euro of public support by fifteen Member States - IPCEI Hy2Tech.pdf.pdf English (347 KB - PDF)
2021-12 European Commission - IPCEI communication.pdf English (639 KB - PDF)
2020-07 European Commission - Hydrogen strategy.pdf English (57 KB - PDF)