2024 European Hydrogen Week Declared a Success
The fifth edition of European Hydrogen Week took place from 18 to 22 November 2024. This year’s event introduced a new Innovation Hub featuring an Innovation Forum with exciting and interactive sessions.
The Innovation Forum will complement the High-Level Policy Conference with sessions on Research and Innovation, covering the entire value chain and focusing on EU competitiveness, skills, and H2 Valleys.
Hydrogen Europe thanks visitors
Hydrogen Europe recognised and thanked all exhibitors, sponsors, speakers, supporters, and visitors who made the 2024 European Hydrogen Week one to remember.
Stakeholders from up and down the hydrogen value chain came together for four days of exhibitions, lively panel debates, and excellent networking opportunities.
More than 220 exhibitors, including representatives from Hydrogen Europe’s international partner India, demonstrated their groundbreaking technology, national and regional ambitions, and market-ready products to more than 9,000 attendees.
Over the four days, more than 200 speakers discussed, debated and devised solutions to the sector’s greatest challenges across 25 panel sessions at the High-Level Policy Conference, the B2B Forum, and the Innovation Forum.
The key takeaways from this year’s B2B sessions about the need to:
- develop underground hydrogen storage,
- ensure a better link between hydrogen and the power sector,
- interconnect stakeholders across value chains, support FIDs to build the infrastructure of Hydrogen Europe need
- provide adequate financial support to assets such as electrolysers that can provide flexibility to the grid.
In the high-level policy conference, the important message concerned global trade and the fact that external partners feel that the rules to compete and come into Europe are too complicated, setting the bar too high and undermining the take-off of the sector.
The certification and standardisation of hydrogen products are essential to creating an international commodity market. The digital product passport is a simplified data container for transparency and trust for international hydrogen trade.
In Europe, Hydrogen Europe sees that large projects are reaching final investment decisions (FID), even if the rate of FIDs is lower than the sector hoped for. Simply because they are not achieving the ambitious and aspirational REPowerEU targets does not mean that the market is not progressing.
Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, CEO of Hydrogen Europe, said: “Another year, another fantastic European Hydrogen Week of lively discussion, with some realism, exciting exhibitions, and forging valuable connections.
“This event brings together the entire European hydrogen value chain for an invaluable week of knowledge sharing and business planning. We thank our Indian partners and friends, and all for making the week such a great success.”
For their participation, Hydrogen Europe also thanked representatives of the Indian government Abhay Bakre, P.K Singh, and Prasad Chaphekar, Algeria’s Mohamed Arkab, Chilean delegates Marcos Kulka and Gloria Navarrete, and representatives of the Dutch Ministry of Public Affairs and Climate Carla Robledo and Rodrigo Pinto Scholtbach.
European Hydrogen Week 2025
The next European Hydrogen Week will take place from 29 September to 03 October 2025 in Brussels, according to the Hydrogen Europe invitation.
