On 12 November, the European Commission launched a call for interest for the first round of the Hydrogen Mechanism. The Mechanism aims at supporting the industry in decarbonisation and accelerating the hydrogen market creation by linking buyers and sellers, informing infrastructure development and facilitating access to financing. It covers hydrogen and its derivatives: ammonia, methanol, and electro-sustainable aviation fuels and e-methane, both renewable and low carbon.
During this call for interest, suppliers are invited to submit supply offers between 12 November and 2 January 2026 and offtakers will be invited to express their interest from 19 January 2026 until 20 March 2026.
This workshop will focus on explaining the first call for interest of the mechanism and will be chaired by Cristina Lobillo Borrero, Director of Energy Security and International Relations, at the Commission Directorate-General for Energy. It will also include a technical session providing an in-depth demonstration of Hydrogen Mechanism for the call for interest.
It is open to industry, financial institutions, academia, and interested stakeholders.
Registration period ended on Tuesday 18 November 2025, 12:00 (CET).
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Background
The Regulation on the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (EU/2024/1789) mandates the Commission to set up and operate the mechanism under the European Hydrogen Bank until the end of 2029.
The Hydrogen Mechanism is part of the the EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform, and was launched on 2 July 2025. It is designed to empower stakeholders by matching and aggregating demand and supply, informing infrastructure development and linking with the financial solutions. In practice, the mechanism will
- collect market information on demand and supply for voluntary market participants, and on financial solutions tailored for hydrogen from public and private institutions
- organise calls for interest for the collected demand and supply volume and provide matchmaking services. Volumes can be aggregated in terms of profile or volume
- provide a platform for collecting interest in infrastructure projects development
- collect and display information about financial products placed by partner financial institutions
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