Toimi 11

ERA action 10 is important for the deployment of low carbon technologies and Finland should be proactive versus such European initiatives. VTT experts participate to the Clean Hydrogen JU as member of Hydrogen Europe Research and in the JU’s stakeholder forum as well as coordinating the EERA Joint Programme Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (JP FCH).
National co-funding will be crucial and Finland should consider a Hydrogen Valley on a concrete and reasonable case like Kilpilahti or Terrafame or similar. It is also important that the valley should be based on Finnish value chain from component to whole electrolysers producing green hydrogen and that the other technologies to be demonstrated in the Valley should be as Finnish as possible, to avoid making large investments to buy foreign technologies just to be demonstrated in the Valley without creating any business for Finland.