Industrial Leaders Launch European Resilience Alliance to Accelerate Clean Hydrogen Deployment

The European Resilience Alliance for Clean Hydrogen & Derivatives (ERA) officially launched on April 14, 2026, at the European Parliament in Brussels, with support from Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition for the European Commission.

ERA brings together leading industrial companies across the clean hydrogen value chain, including ENAGÁS, FLUXYS, FORTUM, GASGRID FINLAND, MOEVE, NORDION ENERGI, OGE, RWE, SEFE, STEGRA, and THYSSENKRUPP, in cooperation with Hydrogen Europe. The alliance aims to advance Europe's industrial decarbonization and energy resilience by scaling clean hydrogen deployment.

The alliance operates through two core pillars: providing unified policy advocacy to EU and national institutions, and coordinating across the value chain to resolve practical bottlenecks.

Concurrently, ERA released a white paper identifying critical barriers to clean hydrogen deployment. The analysis reveals that fewer than 7% of projects in the pipeline have reached Final Investment Decision (FID) stage. Key obstacles include fragmented EU regulation implementation, complex renewable fuels rules, high electricity costs representing 70% of production costs, insufficient demand certainty, and infrastructure development uncertainty.

The white paper recommends four priority actions: establishing stable demand through regulatory harmonization in key sectors; simplifying support frameworks and reducing electricity costs; de-risking private investment through pricing mechanisms; and scaling hydrogen backbone infrastructure with coordinated cross-border planning.

Originally reported by Hydrogen Europe. Read the full article →