HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-01-07: Towards exploration and evaluation of European natural hydrogen potential

Although natural hydrogen is produced via various physical phenomena taking place in the Earth’s subsurface, notably fluid-rock interactions, the discoveries have all been accidental, limited in investigation and only harnessed in Mali.As such, natural hydrogen is a potential new source of clean hydrogen which can play a significant role in Europe to meet the objectives set out in the Fit-for-55 Package and REPowerEU plan.In the future, the potential of natural hydrogen accumulations in the subsurface should be determined and exploited in Europe in a safe and sustainable way to complement other [...]