Press Release 

Brussels

21 November 2024  

Hydrogen Europe offers its recognition and gratitude to all exhibitors, sponsors, speakers, supporters, and visitors who have 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 our international partner India, demonstrated their groundbreaking technology, national and regional ambitions, and market-ready products to the more than 9,000 attendees. 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 over the four days.

The key takeaways from this year’s B2B sessions were 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 we need, and 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 the matter of 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 importance of certification and standardisation of hydrogen products is essential to the creation of an international commodity market. The digital product passport is a simplified data container for transparency and trust for international hydrogen trade. In Europe, we see that large projects are reaching final investment decision (FID), even if the rate of FIDs is lower than the sector hoped for. Simply because we are not reaching the ambitious and aspirational REPowerEU targets does not mean that the market is not progressing.

“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 those involved in making the week such a great success,” said Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, CEO of Hydrogen Europe.

For their valuable participation, we would also like to thank 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.

Please save the date for the next European Hydrogen Week, which will take place from 29 September to 3 October in 2025 in Brussels.