Hydrogen Industrial Platform - Cluster

Project description

The Hydrogen Sector Forum of the Basque Country was set up on the initiative of the Hydrogen Technology Working Group of the Energy Cluster of the Basque Country. The six forum sessions held in 2020, with the participation of close to one hundred Basque organisations linked to the development of the hydrogen economy, contributed to bringing the sector together and to launching different initiatives in different activity areas such as production, transport, distribution, storage and use.

In the course of 2020, the Hydrogen Technology Working Group, jointly with companies, various players from the field of science and technology and public authorities, played its part in drawing up a Basque strategy for the development of hydrogen technologies. The strategy has defined five key objectives:

1. To select those areas related to hydrogen production, transport and use with the greatest possibilities of synergies with the production and technology system of the Basque Country.

2. To propose the technology lines of greatest interest for the Basque Country to develop over the next 5 years, both in terms of the more preliminary stages of knowledge generation (industrial research) and others focused on experimental development.

3. To identify other cross-cutting actions (e.g. training, promoting entrepreneurship) of interest for optimum positioning of the Basque Country in the hydrogen economy.

4. To propose a series of strategic driver initiatives for the most relevant areas identified during the strategic period.

5. To support the start-up of those strategic R&D projects of greatest interest in the short term.