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This report is the public version of the deliverable B.3.7 'Life cycle assessment of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies - Inventory of work performed by projects funded under FCH JU'; it provides an overview of the progress achieved so far and a comprehensive analysis on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for various hydrogen technologies and processes. The review considers 73 Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking (FCH 2 JU) founded projects: f Read More

This report assesses the potential of hydrogen (H2) propulsion to reduce aviation’s climate impact. To reduce climate impact the industry will have to introduce further levers such as radically new technology significantly scale sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) such as synthetic fuel (synfuel) temporarily rely on offsets in large quantities or rely on a combination thereof. H2 propulsion is one such technology and this report assesses its potential in aviatio Read More

Fuel cells and hydrogen are a viable solution for European regions and cities to reduce their emissions and realise their green energy transition says new FCH JU study.In 2017 the FCH JU launched an initiative to support regions and cities in this regard. Today 89 regions and cities participate representing about one quarter of Europe's population surface area and GDP. These regions are pursuing ambitious plans to deploy FCH technology in the coming years. F Read More

Multiscale characterization of the hydrogenation process of silicon solar cell contacts based on c-Si/SiOx/nc-SiCx(p) has been performed by combining dynamic secondary ion mass-spectrometry (D-SIMS) atom probe tomography (APT) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). These contacts are formed by high-temperature firing which triggers the crystallization of SiCx followed by a hydrogenation process to passivate remaining interfacial defects Read More

Hydrogen (H2) is expected to be a key instrument to meet the European Union (EU) Green Deal main objective: i.e. climate neutrality by 2050. Renewable hydrogen deployment is expected to significantly reduce EU greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by displacing carbon-intensive sources of energy. However concerns have been raised recently regarding the potential global warming impact caused by hydrogen emissions. Although hydrogen is neither in Read More

Hydrogen is indispensable to decarbonise European industry and reach the EU’s 2030 climate targets and 2050 climate neutrality. It is one of the key technologies of Europe’s Net Zero Industry Act. By scaling up its production we will reduce the use of fossil fuels in European industries and serve the needs of hard-to-electrify sectors.

The modelling underpinning the scenarios for the EU long-term strategy did not include hydrogen trade. The assumption was that each Member State (MS) supplies its own needs for hydrogen and synthetic fuels. The goal of this study is to develop a model to undertake optimal geolocation of hydrogen production between MS including the possibility to trade hydrogen and therefore use the RES potential more optimally and decrease energy system costs at E Read More

Renewable and low carbon hydrogen is both an energy carrier able to produce other fuels and downstream products such as the e-fuels or e-ammonia and a decarbonised gas produced through renewable electricity. It has the potential to decarbonise hard to abate sectors which are difficult to directly electrify and play a crucial role in achieving net zero emissions target in 2050. The European Commission has recently outlined the policy context and necessar Read More

The Green Deal Industrial Plan aims to boost the competitiveness of Europe’s net-zero industry and to accelerate the transition to climate neutrality. The Plan is based on four pillars: (1) a predictable and simplified regulatory environment; (2) faster access to funding; (3) developing skills for net-zero industry; and (4) open trade for resilient supply chains.

The European Commission published its hydrogen strategy for a climate-neutral Europe on the 8th July 2020. This strategy brings different strands of policy action together covering the entire value chain as well as the industrial market and infrastructure angles together with the research and innovation perspective and the international dimension in order to create an enabling environment to scale up hydrogen supply and demand for a climate-ne Read More