NAHV project builds on the LoI 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.
The main objective in NAHV is the creation of a hydrogen-based economic, social, and industrial ecosystem based on the capacity of the quadruple helix actors.
The 36 organizations covering the transnational Central European area of 3 territories (Slovenia, Croatia and FVG region) will have as specific objectives:
– Demonstration of cross-border integration of hydrogen production, distribution, and consumption.
– Exchange of over 20% of NAHV annual hydrogen production of over 5000 tons.
– Activation of 17 testbed applications in their related ecosystems, clustered in 3 main pillars: hard to abate, energy, and transport sectors. This will act as real-life cases for piloting global hydrogen markets, moving from TRL 6 at the beginning to TRL 8 at the end of the project.
– Demonstration of fuel cell applications in energy and transport sectors.
– Scaling-up the testbeds at industrial level.
– Replication for the whole NAHV model, with the uptake of at least 5 additional hydrogen valleys in Europe, particularly in Central and Southeastern Europe.
