H2 Flow Trace

The European Union (EU) is committed to making Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Achieving this highly ambitious goal requires the complete transformation of the energy system, which accounts for more than 75 % of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions. Hydrogen is key to enabling this transition, with the potential to provide energy at point of use with low or even net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. By providing a means for both short- and long-term energy storage, hydrogen is also key to supporting intermittent forms of renewable energy, including solar and wind.

Even in the medium-term, hydrogen will help meet the EU’s 2030 climate and energy targets with the installation of at least 40 GW of electrolysers which will produce 10 million tonnes of green hydrogen annually, and another 10 million tonnes will be imported. To achieve these targets the development of a hydrogen infrastructure needs to be rapidly accelerated.

Although large-scale decarbonised hydrogen projects are expanding across Europe, there is no large-scale verified metrological infrastructure to perform traceable pure hydrogen flow calibrations for gas networks. This project will address this by contributing to the development of the required metrological infrastructure, which has the potential to reinforce Europe’s leading position in the hydrogen economy.