Sustainable Hydrogen

Developing efficient value chains from hydrogen production to storage and industrial use

Sustainable Hydrogen

Developing efficient value chains from hydrogen production to storage and industrial use

Sustainable Hydrogen

Hydrogen economy is seen as one of the most promising solutions towards a sustainable energy supply. It has become the key technology of the energy transition with an enormous strategic importance for Europe. Hydrogen is also a critical factor in the development of the industrial cluster in the Bothnia Bay region to maintain competitive and sustainable activities. A sustainable H2 economy would enable significant business opportunities and a large reduction in carbon emissions in the programme area.

The Interreg Aurora funded project Sustainable Hydrogen, H2SUS focuses on complete sustainable hydrogen value chains from H2 production to its storage and industrial use. New long-term technical solutions are developed for renewable hydrogen production by photocatalysis and methane pyrolysis. The project focuses also on biomass gasification and process integration for enabling the production of hydrogen-rich syngas. Sustainable Hydrogen cooperates with local industries for replacing fossil reducers and fuels with renewable hydrogen.

System analysis tools are used for giving a holistic knowledge on how a long-term robust and sustainable H2 energy ecosystem can be developed around the Bothnia Bay. The project H2SUS fosters knowledge transfer and information sharing between the stakeholders in ecosystem events, press releases and scientific publications. Overall, the expertise of the project group and stakeholders enables to strengthen the role of the program region in H2 economy and helps to achieve the EU sustainability targets by 2030 and 2050.

Contact: irja.ruokamo@oulu.fi

Lead Partner
University of Oulu

Project Partner
Luleå University of Technology

TYPE OF PROJECT
Regular project

SUB-AREA
Aurora

PRIORITY
Smart and sustainable growth

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE
Smart specialization, research and innovation

PROJECT DURATION
2023-01-01 – 2025-12-31

TOTAL PROJECT BUDGET
999 836 Euro

EU-FUNDING, INTERREG AURORA
649 893 Euro

STATUS
Ongoing

Sustainable development

Social, ecological and economic sustainable development is an overarching goal in the Interreg Aurora Programme. All projects funded by Interreg Aurora contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The Sustainable Hydrogen project contributes primarly to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Project News

First meeting of the Steering Committees for Interreg Aurora 2021-2027
News

First Interreg Aurora projects approved

The new Interreg Aurora Programme has approved the first projects in the funding period 2021-2027. The two Steering Committees, for sub-area Sápmi and sub-area Aurora