Hydrogen offers a solution to decarbonise industrial processes and economic sectors where reducing carbon emissions is both urgent and hard to achieve.
This makes hydrogen and its derivatives such as ammonia, methanol, e-natural gas/emethane and electro-sustainable aviation fuels essential to support the EU’s commitment to reach climate neutrality by 2050 and in its objective to become independent from Russian fossil fuels before 2030.
The EU’s 2030 targets for the consumption of renewable hydrogen in industry and transport will ensure that there is demand. However, on the supply side, only a small number of hydrogen projects have reached final investment decisions and not many producers and consumers have managed to conclude transactions. This is despite significant interest from both producers and consumers to connect.
For this reason, the EU intends to facilitate market development in advance of 2030, and launched a mechanism dedicated to the hydrogen market on the Energy and Raw Materials Platform, in July 2025.
Connecting buyers and suppliers – well before 2030
The hydrogen mechanism will help scale-up EU hydrogen production by increasing supply and demand transparency and helping buyers and suppliers connect. It will operate under the European Hydrogen Bank.
The mechanism will cover renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and derivatives such as ammonia, methanol, e-natural gas/emethane and electrosustainable aviation fuel. It will enable EU buyers to connect with international and European hydrogen supplies.
While it builds upon the successes of the AggregateEU platform for EU-wide gas demand pooling and joint purchases, the mechanism is tailored to the hydrogen market and fully distinct in operation, governance, and user experience.
The mechanism relies on an IT platform, ensuring a quick and easy interface while protecting the confidentiality of data collected. The registrations to the hydrogen mechanism opened July 2025, and the first round of calls for interest was launched in November 2025.
Timeline
- 31 March 2026
- 19 January 2026
- 12 November 2025
- 6 December 2024
Signing of the procurement contract
How will it work?
The mechanism's objectives are to help suppliers and buyers connect, inform infrastructure development by identifying market needs and enhance available information on financial support.
It will engage directly with hydrogen stakeholders and perform a range of services, namely
- collecting hydrogen demand requests from consumers and offers from suppliers and organising calls for interest
- aggregating demand and matching consumption volumes with hydrogen supplies
- displaying information about available financing solutions with partner financial institutions
- collecting and using market data (while protecting its sensitivity and confidentiality) to support the development of infrastructure for hydrogen transport and storage
The hydrogen mechanism will also make pertinent non-commercially sensitive insights visible to the public in order to enhance market transparency and support investments. It will ensure synergies with other EU initiatives and support schemes to take advantage of available data and insights.
Potential user cases
The hydrogen mechanism is an opportunity for potential buyers to
- find suppliers
- give visibility to their current and future hydrogen needs
- give visibility to their willingness to transition away from fossil fuels
- find cooperation opportunities
It will allow suppliers to
- find buyers
- find the project partners needed to apply for domestic auctions under the European Hydrogen Bank
- connect with available funding opportunities
The Commission may also engage with infrastructure developers to use the mechanism to collect market interest in specific infrastructure projects.
The Commission has decided to temporarily exclude hydrogen supply offers originating in the Russian Federation or Belarus from being collected through the Hydrogen Mechanism, in line with Article 54 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1789, for a period of 1 year.
Related links
Press material
- News announcement: Successful first round of the EU Hydrogen Mechanism to support market development, providing value added to the industry (29 April 2026)
- News announcement: EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform - Hydrogen Mechanism: Phase launched for EU buyers to consult supply offers and express interest (20 January 2026)
- News announcement: Hydrogen Mechanism: Commission launches its first call for interest to connect buyers and suppliers (12 November 2025)
- Press release: New pilot mechanism to boost the hydrogen market (3 June 2024)
- Launch event of the EU Energy & Raw Materials Platform (2 July 2025)
- European Hydrogen Bank
- Regulation on the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (EU/2024/1798)
- Implementing Decision on the temporary exclusion of offers of hydrogen supplies originating in the Russian Federation of Belarus (EU/2025/1486)