EU’s Hydrogen Valley Days and Corridor Days are this year happening under the same new moon, June 24 -25, 2025, and a five min bike ride from each other, on a day of Belgian protests in Brussels (yes it is also still the capital of Belgium!). When the main themes of Europe Competitiveness and Resilience require an acceleration of synergies between energy and transport networks, EU’s calendars unfortunately follow a different logic…

The Clean Hydrogen Partnership revealed its highly anticipated Hydrogen Valley Facility revealing the winners of the tender, Roland Berger, as the house consultant of the formerly FCH JU and now CHP, will make sure that we recycle efficiently 17 years of hydrogen studies, project results and roadmaps.

They new Hydrogen Valley Facility offers a light (6 weeks of manhours) and heavy (12 weeks of manhours) way of nudging aspiring locations throughout Europe into their concept of Hydrogen Valleys. Even though most of these locations so far are situated in the “flat part” of Western Europe, they will need to be boxed into a clear set of Hydrogen “Valley” conditions that will secure demand and long term commitments of necessary stakeholders, most of all investors. In the corridors of this event the outcome of the last 1.2 bln H2 Auction and the upcoming Hydrogen Mechanism was dominating the talks, as these will hopefully set the tone for necessary H2 cost reductions in the coming 10 years. This last auction was four times oversubscribed with 61 bids, totalling 6,3 GW of electrolyzer capacity to produce 7.3 mln tons over 10 years. Under the second auction of the European Hydrogen Bank, Spain, Lithuania, and Austria have participated with the contribution of up to €836 million in national funds.