Stakeholder Consultation Workshop on the Competitive Bidding in the Innovation Fund — Hybrid Event

The Directorate-General for Climate Action of the European Commission will hold a Stakeholder Consultation Workshops on the Design of a Competitive Bidding Mechanism under the Innovation Fund.

The proposed revision of the ETS Directive and the RePowerEU Plan foresees auctioning financial support of the Innovation Fund to successful projects. At present, the Commission is considering potential design options for EU-wide auctions for Contracts for Difference (CfD) focusing on hydrogen supply and for Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfD) focusing on hydrogen demand sectors. This workshop’s objective is to discuss and collect feedback on these two types of auctions and their possible design aspects.

The workshops will take place on November 21^st, 2022, in a hybrid format. Please find here a preliminary agenda for the day.

There will be an introductory session, followed by two 3h-workshops on CfDs for hydrogen production and CCfDs for hydrogen uptake for industry decarbonisation, respectively.

In-person places for the workshop will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis. Online participation is unlimited upon registration and the event will be recorded.

Please find more information about registration at the workshop here. Registration will close on November 17^th.