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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.

Since May 2024, all four IPCEIs have been notified by the European Commission under State Aid rules. The IPCEI are called (in order of notification) Hy2Tech, Hy2Use, Hy2Infra and Hy2Move. These four IPCEIs combined consist of almost 125 notified projects. The projects can be considered as large projects as the project budget range spans from several million euros to several hundreds of millions euros per project.

This home page gives access to more general information. Descriptions of the projects, which are clustered under a number of Technology Fields (Hy2Tech, Hy2Use) or Workstreams (Hy2Infra, Hy2Move) per IPCEI, can be found via the following entries:

The latest news

News Article

17 September 2026

Moeve launches construction of the first phase of Europe’s largest green hydrogen project

Moeve has celebrated the start of construction of the first phase of the Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley, Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen project, with an event in Palos de la Frontera, Huelva, that brought together senior representatives from the Spanish Government, the European Commission, the Regional Government of Andalusia, the municipalities of Palos de la Frontera and Huelva, as well as business leaders involved with and supporting the project.

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25 August 2026

Hamburg starts building hydrogen connector for HH-WIN network

German utility Hamburger Energienetze has started construction of the H2-Connector on the former Moorburg power plant site, a key hub for the planned Hamburg Hydrogen Industry Network (HH-WIN).

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19 August 2026

Hellesylt Hydrogen Hub Becomes the First RFNBO-Certified Hydrogen Production Site in Norway

Norwegian Hydrogen is proud to announce that Hellesylt Hydrogen Hub obtained its RFNBO certification on 31 Jul 26, issued by ISCC – the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification.

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)

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2024-02 Statement by Executive Vice-President Vestager on the Important Project of Common European Interest Hy2Infra.pdf English (36 KB - PDF)

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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)

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2022-09 Commission approves up to 5.2 billion euro support by 13 Member States for IPCEI Hy2Use.pdf English (660 KB - PDF)

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2022-09 Commission approves up to 5.2 billion euro of public support by thirteen Member States - IPCEI Hy2Use.pdf English (161 KB - PDF)

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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)