Belgian Hydrogen Council’s Post

🚨 RED ALERT 🚨 The hydrogen sub-quota for industry 🏭 and transport 🚢 stemming from the Renewable Energy Directive ("RED III") have been the talk of the town in the hydrogen sector for quite a while. However, the directive leaves quite some #flexibilities and open choices to the Member States on how they wish to implement the targets. ✍🏼 The Belgian Hydrogen Council has therefore written a #positionpaper for all Belgian governments with recommendations and guidance on how to implement the hydrogen sub-targets in the best way in Belgium. The paper is structured in the following way: 📌 Introduction (Chapter 1) 📌 Analysis of relevant provisions in RED + importance for BE (Chapter 2) 📌 Calculation of the impact of the targets for Belgium (Chapter 3) 📌 Options for the implementation framework (Chapter 4) 📌 Recommendations by the Belgian Hydrogen Council (Chapter 5) You can download the paper on our website: https://ap.lc/rbxar WaterstofNet Cluster TWEED Port of Antwerp-Bruges Hydrogen Europe NLHydrogen France Hydrogène essenscia FEBEG VBO FEB Union Wallonne des Entreprises FOD Economie / SPF Economie / FPS Economy Vlaams Energie- en Klimaatagentschap Brussels Environment Wallonie - SPW Énergie Departement Economie, Wetenschap en Innovatie (EWI) VLAIO - Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship Tinne Van der Straeten Zuhal Demir Jo Brouns Philippe Henry Alain Maron Bart De Wever Matthias Diependaele Georges-Louis Bouchez Conner Rousseau Melissa Depraetere Alexander De Croo Petra De Sutter Sammy Mahdi Open Vld Groen cd&v N-VA Vooruit PvdA Vlaams Belang ECOLO Les Engagés - Mouvement Participatif Mouvement Réformateur (MR) PS belge

This morning, our chairman Tom Hautekiet presented the Belgian hydrogen ecosystem to the Belgian Economic Mission to Norway lead by HRH Princes Astrid, Jan Jambon, Philippe Henry, Paul Van Tigchelt and Tinne Van der Straeten 🇧🇪🇳🇴 In the beautifull Opera House of Oslo and in the presence of a business delegation of more than 400 companies, the Belgian Hydrogen Council reached out to the Norsk Hydrogenforum for intensive collaboration, happily accepted by Miss Ingebjørg Telnes Wilhelmsen in her back to back presentation 🤝 Yesterday, we already had to chance to visit the INEOS site in Rafnes by boat to hear about their decarbonisation plans and the synergies the site has with INEOS BELGIUM and Project One. Port of Antwerp-Bruges Wouter Bleukx Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT) AWEX hub.brussels FOD Buitenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Handel en Ontwikkelingssamenwerking Belgian Foreign Trade Agency (BFTA) WaterstofNet Cluster TWEED

Day 2 of the World Hydrogen Summit & Exhibition has come to an end! Also today was filled with exciting meetings and encounters 🎈 We hit the day off with a Council 2 Council meeting with our French neighbours of France Hydrogène 🎈 FABRUM. gave us an insight in their interesting liquefaction technologies 🎈 In preparation of the upcoming Belgian Economic Mission to norway, we passed by the Norwegian booth where we met the Norwegian Hydrogen Federation 🎈 Andalucía TRADE visited the BHC booth with a delegation of companies 🎈 As a national association, WaterstofNet sigend The Cooperation Charter for European Associations Advancing Clean Hydrogen tpgether with other national associations of Hydrogen Europe (press release:https://ap.lc/vBLMt) See you next year WHS!

World Hydrogen Summit & Exhibition: Day 2! Meet us at booth A106!

Reflecting back on an exciting first day at the World Hydrogen Summit & Exhibition with some highlights: 🎈 The signing of our MOU with NLHydrogen and the German hydrogen council (press release: https://ap.lc/ZtFoH) 🎈 A seminar by Canada on Bridging the Transatlantic Liquidity Gap, with special thanks to Alexane Hervy for inviting our Belgian companies 🎈 A meeting with Hydrom on reinforcing Belgo-Omani ties 🎈 Fruitful discussions at the Associação dos Empregados da Apex-Brasil booth between Belgian and Brazilian stakeholders 🎈 An encounter between our chairman Tom Hautekiet and the State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy for North Rhine-Westphalia Ms. Silke Krebs at the booth of John Cockerill 🎈 Ending the day with our famous Belgian Beer Night, after being welcomed by our Belgian ambassador in the Netherlands Anick Van Calster Today, we go again!