NACHIP
North Adriatic Clean (Renewable) Hydrogen Investment Platform (NACHIP) aims to accelerate and strengthen trans-national innovation actions related to the North Adriatic Hydrogen Ecosystem by focusing on the investments in renewable hydrogen-related technologies associated with three value chains: manufacturing, urban areas and mobility. The initiative maximize the impact by pursing the implementation of a replicable acceleration concept to be used to integrate and scale advanced hydrogen related technologies, replicate the governance approach to local hydrogen alliances, strengthen the target value chains by the inclusion of SMEs (thir parties) through cascade financing into the NAHV, with a predominant weight given to the less developed region. The continuity of the NACHIP acceleration concept will be assured by its integration into the NAHV SPV and made available in a replicable manner to other connected regional Innovation Ecosystems across the EU.
NACHIP’s main goals are to:
- Implement and scale-up a portfolio of investment propositions (pilots) for hydrogen-related technologies, initially as TRL 6 or higher, across selected value chains.
- Develop “local hydrogen alliances” around these pilots to anchor further development of target value chains.
- Generate an investable portfolio of hydrogen-related solutions with an acceleration program to support continuous technology maturation, dissemination, and integration into the NAHV ecosystem and beyond.
NACHIP’s activities will accelerate the Hydrogen Ecosystem’s development in the North Adriatic territory and increase its impact. The platform’s design and acceleration programme will facilitate the adoption of hydrogen-related technologies across target cross-regional value chains, fostering collaboration and joint innovation projects aligned with EU priorities.
A grant of 7.6 million euro has been awarded to the consortium of 12 partners from the three participating countries (Slovenia, Croatia and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Autonomous Region of Italy). ECUBES is one of the partners. The initiative represents an opportunity for up to 18 SMEs who will be selected to receive a grant of up to 60.000 euro each and join the two-tier NACHIP acceleration programme through which they will be integrated in the value chains evolving around five industrial pilot projects based on hydrogen-related technologies.
Hydrogen use in Velenje (Slovenia) is a use case led by ECUBES and is organised as a “local hydrogen alliance”, comprising Municipality of Velenje, KSSENA, ETRA, ECUBES and JSI as key participants. It aims to present a comprehensive solution for generating and efficiently utilising renewable energy based on hydrogen in the urban areas value chain. The focus is on transforming a public building in the Municipality of Velenje (Slovenia), into a demonstrative case for sustainable energy solutions composed of a set of hydrogen technologies.
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