Hydrogen, fuel cells and Electro-mobility in European Regions.

1. Hydrogen, fuel cells and
Electro-mobility in European Regions
HyERLights
Towards robust deployment channels for hydrogen, fuel cells and
electro-mobility in European regions
EV Now!
Monza, September 6, 2013
Marieke Rejalt

2. Structure
1. HyER Action points: Connecting the dots …
2. Monitoring progress and best practice …
3. HyER’s EU project involvement …
4. Development EU Support Framework
1. Robust deployment channels …

3. HyER at a glance
Membership increase:
2008 (9) < 2013 (40)
Population: 115 mln
GDP: 363 bln
New members
joining in 2013
Aberdeen
Scotland
Riga
Berlin
Valencia
Source : EEO

4. Structure
1. HyER Action points: Connecting the dots …
2. Monitoring progress and best practice …
3. HyER’s EU project involvement …
4. Development EU Support Framework
1. Robust deployment channels …

5. HyER Action points
1. Facilitate fact-based policy recommendations
to inform decision-makers on state of the art of advanced
technologies based on latest stage project and technology findings.
2. Develop European support framework
to provide local authorities with a long-term financial framework to
support technology deployment by liaising with relevant European
financial institutions.
3. Compile robust market introduction plans
to support industrial planning based on proven regional action plans
for sustainable market roll-out and technology introduction by
evaluating and developing members individual development plans.

6. Structure
1. HyER Action points: Connecting the dots …
2. Monitoring progress and best practice …
3. HyER’s EU project involvement …
4. Development EU Support Framework
1. Robust deployment channels …

7. European Electromobility Observatory info
EEO was set up in 2012 with the support of HyER member regions and EC
EEO ‘s role is mentioned in CPT directive (2013):
“ ..facilitate information exchange and coordinated regional action across the EU ..”
EEO is designed to
answer key questions on drives and support schemes as well as compile
learning from best practices across Europe;
identify robust deployment channels based on specific local conditions;
become a major tool to for policymakers at all levels:
- monitoring infrastructure planning across Europe
- analysing data and providing policy recommendations
EEO Partners:

8. Structure
1. HyER Action points: Connecting the dots …
2. Monitoring progress and best practice …
3. HyER’s EU project involvement …
4. Development EU Support Framework
1. Robust deployment channels …

9. Fact based policy making - Project involvement
HyER involvement in the EU Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint
Undertaking (FCH JU) as partner/co-financer of projects:
1st Call
H2 moves Scandinavia (FC passenger cars)
HyER facilitates European road shows across several European regions
(dissemination through local events).
2nd Call
CHIC (FC hybrid buses)
HyER coordinates general and targeted dissemination in 6 regions in
Europe.
3rd Call
High V.LO City (FC hybrid buses) HyTEC (taxis and scooters) HyER
is a dissemination partner in two fuel cell vehicles demo projects: one for
buses and one for taxis and scooters.
4 th Call
HyTransit (FC hybrid intercity buses) ene.field (FC stationary) HyER
is a dissemination partner in a FC bus demo project and a FC mCHP
demo project proposal.

10. Structure
1. Action points: Connecting the dots …
2. Monitoring progress and best practice …
3. HyER’s EU project involvement …
4. Development EU Support Framework: action key dossiers
1. Robust deployment channels …

11. Clean Power for Transport Communication
EC has identified two main causes for lack of
alternative fuel infrastructure:
1. The technology is substantially mature but the standards are not
common EU-wide, thereby discouraging potential infrastructure
investors, car manufacturers and consumers.
2. The co-ordination failure among vehicle manufactures,
infrastructure providers, national authorities and final users
must be addressed. Initiatives addressed at promoting
infrastructure appear necessary to break this deadlock.
Among others “the Commission will facilitate information
exchange and coordinated regional action across the EU with
the European Electromobility Observatory.”

12. Clean Power for Transport (COM 2013/17)
Three policy options:
1.No additional policy intervention; current legislative initiatives,
national announcements for the deployment of infrastructure, and
continuation of previous EU and Member States’ programmes and
incentives;
2.EU to issue recommendations on the application of standards
and recommendations on basic criteria and indicative targets for all
alternative fuels.
3.EU to set out requirements for alternative fuels infrastructure for
Member States. Also basic criteria for minimum infrastructure
coverage; binding targets for the most mature fuel technologies
(electricity, and LNG for waterborne transport). For hydrogen and
natural gas (LNG and CNG) for road transport, the targets would
be indicative.

13. Clean Power for Transport – Investment costs
“Avoided fuel use increases progressively over the decades 2010-2030
from about €610 million per year in 2020 to about €9.3 bn per year in 2030
under Policy Option 4”.

14. Clean Power for Transport: objectives 2020
FCEV Infrastructure Objective
BEV Infrastructure Objectives
• Existing hydrogen refuelling
stations are connected via the
TEN-T Core Network with a
maximum distance of 300 km
between stations by 2020.
• EU benchmark number of 4
million EVs on the road in the EU
by 2020;
• For hydrogen, a first step
towards market opening would
require linking existing and
planned refuelling stations
• The number of recharging points
for EVs reaches at least 10%
publicly accessible;
• Market tests have shown that
each EV needs two recharging
points (at home and at work), and
about 10% of all publicly
accessible.

15. H2 refuelling stations in Europe

16. Energy technologies and Innovation
• On 2 May 2013, the European Commission published its Communication on
energy
technologies
and
innovation
COM
(2013)
253.
• An Integrated Roadmap should be developed, under the guidance of the SET
Plan Steering Group, incorporating the key principles and measures identified in
this Communication: consolidate the (up dated) technology roadmaps of the SET
Plan while retaining the technology specificities; cover the entire research and
innovation chain from basic research to demonstration and market roll-out;
• Member States and the Commission should develop an Action Plan on
coordinated and/or joint investments by mid-2014, by individual Member
States, between Member States and with the EU that go beyond grant
programmes and include financial engineering instruments and procurements.
• The Action Plan will contain different modes of implementation such as
alignment of Member States and EC funding on priorities identified in the
integrated roadmap and joint investments between Member States or/and with the
European Union.

17. EU Roadmap for energy storage 2030
17 April 2013, the European Association for the Storage of Energy
(EASE) launched the Recommendations for a European Energy Storage
Technology Development Roadmap towards 2030

18. Structure
1. Action points: Connecting the dots …
2. Monitoring progress and best practice …
3. HyER’s EU project involvement …
4. Development EU Support Framework
1. Building robust deployment channels …

19. Deployment channels for FC and E-Buses

20. Clean Hydrogen in European Cities
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26 fuel cell buses operated in 5 Phase 1
cities; together with the Phase 0 cities
more than 55 buses in operation;
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3 different bus manufacturers in the
Phase 1 cities;
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2 refuelling stations per Phase 1 city
(one existing & one new station);
•
25 partners from 9 countries
Visit: www.chic-project.eu
Email: h2businfo@chic-project.eu
Duration: April 2012 December 2016
Total budget: €81.8 m
EU Contribution (FCH
JU): €26 m

21. Clean Hydrogen in European Cities
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Oslo: 5 FCH buses and a
new H2 station since 2012.
Buses increased operation
hours in April 2013!
London: 5 buses have
been operating on main
route (RV1) for over 3
years. Another 3 buses will
be added this summer.
• Aargau: 5 buses are operating around Brugg. Buses participated in WEF
2013, Davos and in UITP exhibition this year.
• 3 Buses and one refuelling station are being tested in Milan.
• 5 buses have arrived in Bolzano. H2 refuelling station is being set up and
tested.
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22. Clean Hydrogen in European Cities
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Report on authorisation procedures for H2
infrastructures collecting experiences from phase 0
and phase 1 cities.
The bus study on alternative powertrains (FCH
JU, Dec. 2012): FCH bus offers best performance in
range and refuelling times. The purchase cost of the
bus can be reduced by 53% by 2030.
Presence at main events: World Economic Forum
in Davos (Jan. 2013), the UITP exhibition (May
2013), International Workshop, (16-17 Oct. 2013),
World Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition
(EVS27), (17-20 November).
HyER regions to organise phase 2 workshops to
discuss the roll out.
The CHIC intermediate conference will take place
on 8 October in Brussels during the Open Days:
update on the main project outcomes and
experience of cities experience that have joined the
fuel cell bus city network supported by the FCH JU.
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23. High V.LO-City project: Cities speeding up the integration
of hydrogen buses in public fleets
12 partners led by bus manufacturer VanHool;
14 FCH buses to be deployed in 3 EU regions
(Flanders, Liguria, Scotland) between Sept.
2013 and January 2014): the buses will be arriving
in San Remo on 6 September
3 hydrogen production and refuelling facilities
(H2 production by different sources incl. Wind and Duration: January 2012 solar).
December 2016
Objectives:
Total budget: €31.6 m
• Standardisation of H2 refuelling infrastructure;
• Policies on environmental, health, energy efficiency, EU contribution (FCH JU):
socio-economic benefits;
€13.5 m
• Increase awareness and broader adoption of H2 €
buses.

24. HyER’s support in 2012-2013
• HyER started the development the concept of the
Centres of Excellence. Transport Operators will
provide space in their lobby to promote the project.
• Organising conference to announce the launch
during the BusWorld Academy seminar (18 October
2013) in Kortrijk with the participation of key vehicle
platforms and operators.
•Developing the main dissemination material
(brochures, presentations, posters, newsletters, etc).
•Presence at main events: FP7 Call announcements
(Berlaymont Jul.2013), Transport Days (Nov. 2012),
EU Open Day (May 2013).
Visit: http://highvlocity.eu/

25. HyTransit – Hydrogen Transit Buses in Scotland
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A novel hybrid FCH bus fleet for transit applications
expanding the European H2 bus market to Scotland;
A H2 corridor connecting the North with the South of
the UK, and to the wider European H2 network;
6 FCH buses; an industrial consortium across
Europe.
Objectives:
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14 hours and 270 km per day operation;
Refuelling station supplied from H2 generated at a
nearby wind farm;
30% to 50% CO2 reduction vs diesel buses;
H2 cost: 6 €/kg, assuming 200 kg/day.
Duration: January
2013 - December 2017
Total budget: €11.4 m
EU contribution (FCH
JU): €7 m
The project was kicked off in Aberdeen in February 2013.
Aberdeen is supporting the Open Days workshop on 8 October 2013.

26. Deployment channels for BEV and FCEV

27. (www.hy-tec.eu)
Hydrogen Transport in European Cities
Test fleet of H2 FCH vehicles in 3 vehicle categories:
Taxis;
Passenger cars;
Scooters
Increase number of H2 refuelling stations in London
and Copenhagen;
Objectives:
• Share lessons learned and commercial benefits to
key local stakeholders;
•Engage key EU decision makers to accelerate
commercialisation of public transport fleets.
Duration: Sept. 2011 –
Dec. 2014
Total budget: €29,5 m
EU contribution (FCH
JU): €11,9 m

28. (www.hy-tec.eu)
HyER’s support in 2012-2013
London: In July 2012, 5 FCH taxis have been launched.
Taxis transported VIPs during the Olympic period. Taxis will
resume operation in July 2013.
A fleet of passenger vehicles will be acquired by the Mayor’s
Office for high-end users.
Copenhagen: High-level event to launch the project, on 3
June 2013. City of Copenhagen acquired 10 passenger
vehicles from Huyndai.
• HyER has promoted the local events. Project presence at
EU Mobility Week, Hanover Fair and Open Days with an
exhibition on the “100 Eurban Solutions” 7-11 October
2013);
• Establishment of strategic alliances with opinion formers
across EU.

29. FR-EVUE: Validating FReight Electric Vehicles
in Urban Europe
8 locations across Europe: Stockholm, Oslo, London,
Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Madrid and Milan,
15 industry partners, 6 research organisations.
124 electric vehicles;
Freight applications include a wide range of:
Goods deliveries;
Innovative logistics systems and ICT;
Test of different vehicle types;
Diverse climate conditions;
HyER’s support in 2012-2013:
•HyER developed the website and local Dissemination
Plans;
•Co-organised a Stakeholder Event for FREVUE and
GreenEMotion together with Eurelectric and ESB on
24-25 June 2013, in Brussels.
Duration: January
Visit: http://www.frevue.eu
(FP7): €8 m
2013 - tbc
Total budget: €13.8 m
EU Contribution

30. ene.field
•9 European micro FC-CHP (Combined Heat
and Power) manufacturers to deliver trials
across all of the available technologies;
•4 utilities, housing providers and
municipalities;
•1,000 residential FC mCHP installations.
Objectives:
•Engage with local authorities and local
distribution system operators to identify the
role of FC in clean local energy networks;
•Insight of the socio-economic barriers to
widespread deployment of mCHP;
•Engage with EU stakeholders to increase
political acceptance.
Duration: Sept. 2012 – Aug.
2017
Total budget: €53,2 m
EU contribution (FCH JU):
€25,9 m

31. HyER’s support in 2012-2013
• HyER developed the project website
(http://enefield.eu/)
• Monthly factsheets on the technology
developments in EU member states and
regions.
• HyER is supporting the project in expanding
its outreach to several local stakeholders. With
the support of its members, HyER will be
organising workshops in approximately six
European regions (DE, UK, IT, ES, LV, NO) this
autumn to engage further local stakeholders in
the technology deployment.
•Visit: https://ene.field.eu

32. Deployment channels for Energy Networks

33. Hydrogen Energy Station in London, Heston
Deploy a biogas to hydrogen production
facility in the UK.
A large scale plant (>1MW) will provide
renewable hydrogen to produce:
a) green hydrogen for transport;
b) renewable heat and power.
Objectives:
• Transfer the knowledge to potential
investors across Europe;
• Share environmental benefits with the
general public and other hydrogen projects
in London and Europe.
Duration: January 2013 December 2018
Indicative total budget: €18 m
EU contribution (FCH JU): €9 m

34. Deployment channels for Infrastructure

35. TEN T: Hydrogen Infrastructure for Transport (HIT)
• 7 partners, with the support of 5 EU Member States,
co-funded by the EU.
• Synchronised Implementation Plan for (HRS) roll-out
along a 1,000 km corridor from Gothenburg to Rotterdam
with links to hydrogen hubs in DE and the UK;
• 1 pilot station of Air Liquide in Rotterdam;
• 2 pilot stations in DK by H2Logic
• Geographical planning aligned with the EU’s TENtec
mapping system
HyER’s support in 2012-2013:
•Project presence and press event at the TEN T Day in
Nov. 2012, Brussels and Ocotber 15-18, 2013 in Talinn
•Website, Project Dissemination and Engagement Plan,
support in organising the first national workshops in 2013.
Duration:
Nov. 2012 – Dec.
2014

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• Surveys on the clean
fleets in Europe and the
infrastructure are
available on HyER’s
intranet (www.hyer.eu)
• Participate and help us
measure the regions’
clean power!

38. HyER Calendar
European Mobility Week,
Sustainable2Wheels event (Brussels) –
16-22 September 2013;
Open Days – Electromobility workshop, 8
October 2013 (Brussels); HyTEC project
exhibition (7-10 October); CHIC
intermediate conference
International Bus Workshop – 16-17
October 2013 (Hamburg);
Busworld Kortrijk – 18 October 2013
(Kortrijk)
Akershus Conference “Clean Power for
Transport” – 30-31 October 2013

39. Clean Power to European Regions and Cities!
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