Hydrogen Mechanism: Commission launches its first call for interest to connect buyers and suppliers
Source：european commission
To connect potential suppliers with buyers of hydrogen and its derivatives in the EU, the Commission is, today, launching the first call for interest under the Hydrogen Mechanism.
Hydrogen and its derivatives can play an important role for sectors that are hard to decarbonise and contribute to the EU reaching climate neutrality by 2050. The mechanism covers renewable or low-carbon hydrogen and derivatives such as ammonia, methanol, certain aviation fuels (eSAF) and eMethane.
The mechanism offers a number of advantages
- it empowers buyers and sellers by connecting future demand and supply and helps mitigate market uncertainty
- it makes the hydrogen market more transparent by providing European and international companies with more visibility on potential commercial partners
- it supports the development of hydrogen infrastructure and access to financial solutions
- it promotes market engagement and unlocks new business opportunities as it brings buyers and sellers together in an open, transparent environment
Next Steps
Submission phase: Opening 12 November 2025 until 2 January 2026. Suppliers are invited to submit supply offers.
Publication of call for interest: 19 January 2026. Publication of anonymised information sheets about the supply offers.
Expression of interest: Opening 19 January 2026 until 20 March 2026. Off-takers are invited to express their interest.
Results: 31 March 2026. Results are available to participants of the call.
Background
Hydrogen plays an important role in decarbonising industrial processes and industries for which reducing carbon emissions is both urgent and hard to achieve.
The Regulation on the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (EU/2024/1789) mandates the Commission to set up and operate a mechanism under the European Hydrogen Bank to support the market development of hydrogen for a limited duration until the end of 2029.
On 2 July 2025, the Commission launched the new EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform to empower European companies to procure energy-related products in an effective way.
It offers solutions to collect demand, and supply offers from companies and provide aggregation and matchmaking services. It can result in joint purchasing for a wide range of energy-related products as well as strategic raw materials.