The Hydrogen Mechanism empowers European and global companies to address key issues hindering hydrogen market development: uncertainty of demand and supply, lack of infrastructures, and significant funding gaps.
The Hydrogen Mechanism stimulates market forces by bringing together buyers and sellers on an open and transparent platform and enabling market participants to find potential commercial partners.
Why register and participate?
For European off-takers
- Create your demand request for renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and derivatives
- Participate in a global call for supply interest and receive supply offers from European and international suppliers
- Engage with financial institutions to develop your decarbonisation projects
For European and global suppliers
- Create your supply offers for renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and derivatives
- Consult demand requests from European off-takers and submit your offers
- Aggregate European demand requests to leverage the size of the Union's market
- Engage with financial institutions to develop your production projects
For financial institutions
- Display your financial products to registered market participants (offtakers and suppliers)
- Consult results of calls for interest (subject to participants' consent)
- Engage with potential clients to support their projects
Hydrogen Mechanism's activities are organised around rounds
All rounds are planned and organised by the European Commission.
Call for supply interests
European off-takers submit their demand requests and European and global suppliers are invited to provide supply offers
Call for demand interests
European and global suppliers submit their supply offers and European off-takers are invited to provide demand requests
Infrastructure market testing
Participants are invited to submit demand requests and supply offers to test their interest in future infrastructures.
Results are shared with participants at the end of the round.
No involvement of the European Commission in commercial negotiations.
No involvement of the European Commission in commercial negotiations.
Products
- Renewable (RFNBO) and low‑carbon
- Hydrogen and derivatives (ammonia, methanol, eSAFs, eMethane)