The North Adriatic Hydrogen Valley (NAHV) project builds upon a letter of intent signed in March 2022 by representatives of the Slovenian Ministry of Infrastructure, Croatian Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development and Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) Autonomous Region in Italy, contributing to the European Green Deal and European Hydrogen Strategy goals. Its primary goal is to establish a hydrogen-based economic, industrial and social ecosystem, promoting growth and job creation while advancing green and digital transitions and setting the conditions for wider EU replicability. Partnering with 34 organizations across Slovenia, Croatia, and the FVG Region, the project emphasizes cross-border hydrogen production, distribution, and consumption, targeting an exchange of over 20% of the annual hydrogen output of over 5,000 tons forecasted in the NAHV project.
The project will activate 17 testbed applications in their related ecosystems, clustered in three main pillars – the hard-to-abate, industries and the energy and transport sectors. These will act as real-life cases for piloting global hydrogen markets, moving from TRL 6 at the beginning to TRL 8 by the end of the project.
Four fuel cell applications in the energy and transport sectors will be demonstrated. Testbeds will then be scaled up to industrial level as a replicable model, contributing to the decarbonisation of the three territories by harnessing renewables to improve system resilience, security of supply, and
energy independence.
These testbeds will be further developed by the companies to scale them up to the industrial/operational level. The “core testbed projects” are integrated into a mature ecosystem which has been working for decades in the hydrogen economy, and within which several relevant initiatives funded by European, national and regional funds are already being led by industry players in the three countries constituting the wide NAHV ecosystem.
[Latest update: September 2024]
