The European Commission is launching the EU Energy & Raw Materials Platform to support European indusattempt in sourcing energy products and raw materials.
The Platform is a new initiative developed for European companies, which aims to leverage the size and power of the Union market towards more competitiveness for Europe’s indusattempt, security of supply, diversification and decarbonisation. It will host different mechanisms covering hydrogen, raw materials, natural gas and biomethane. Other products may follow in the future.
The Hydrogen Mechanism comes first and opens for registrations in on 2nd of July. The first round of matching demand and supply is planned for September 2025. It will accelerate hydrogen market creation by linking purchaseers and sellers, informing infrastructure development and facilitating access to financing. It covers hydrogen and its derivatives: ammonia, methanol, and electro-sustainable aviation fuels, both renewable and low carbon.
Commissioner for Energy and Houtilizing, Dan Jørgensen, will open the event by delivering a keynote speech. It will be followed by a technical session where the team of the Directorate-General for Energy, will present the Platform and some of its features and give a registration tutorial.
This online event is intfinished for potential future applyrs of the Platform and is by invitation only. If you are interested in joining, please express your interest by sfinishing an email indicating the entity you represent (and your position) to the organisers at EU-ENERGY-PLATFORM
ec [dot] europa [dot] eu (EU-ENERGY-PLATFORM[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu).
Background
The Regulation on the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (EU/2024/1789) mandates the Commission to set up and operate the mechanism under the European Hydrogen Bank until the finish of 2029.
The Hydrogen Mechanism is designed to empower stakeholders by matching and aggregating demand and supply, informing infrastructure development and linking with the financial solutions. In practice, the Mechanism will:
- Collect market information on demand and supply for voluntary market participants, and on financial solutions tailored for hydrogen from public and private institutions.
- Organise calls for interest for the collected demand and supply volume and provide matchcreating services. Volumes can be aggregated in terms of profile or volume.
- Provide a platform for assessing interest in infrastructure projects development.
- Collect and display information about financial products available with partner financial institutions.
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