Thursday, September 29, 2022
On 21 September, the European Commission (Commission) approved, under State Aid rules, the project IPCEI Hy2Use (IPCEI Hy2Use) as the second Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) to support research and innovation, as well as the first industrial deployment and construction of relevant infrastructure in the hydrogen value chain. The IPCEI Hy2Use is an initiative prepared by thirteen member states: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, and Sweden. The European Free Trade Association Surveillance Authority also approved on 21 September the aid for the two Norwegian projects participating in the IPCEI Hy2Use project.
The first project of this kind, the Hy2Tech project (Hy2Tech), was approved, by the Commission on 15 July 2022 and targeted hydrogen-related…