Inn2POWER – Supporting companies in the offshore wind and green hydrogen sectors

The Inn2POWER (Innovation to Push Offshore Wind Energy Regions) project has brought together the forces of nine partners across four countries in the North Sea Region (NSR): the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. It has been driven by the vision to strengthen the North Sea regions through expanding the capacity for innovation and improving access to the offshore wind industry and green hydrogen for SMEs.

It will do this through the Inn2POWER Company Directory, which strives to grant easy access to test and demonstration facilities and improve knowledge, skills and availability of qualified staff.

Opergy, together with Hydrogen East, has led the UK’s involvement in Inn2POWER, collaborating on the Green Hydrogen State of the Nation Reports, producing both a UK-centric version, as well as an overview of each of the State of the Nation reports produced by the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, each mapping out their respective green hydrogen landscapes. The reports provide the latest state of affairs regarding green hydrogen policy, projects, infrastructure and ecosystem developments in the partner countries.

The overview report seeks to introduce some of the overarching issues discussed in each report, while also exploring the proposed European Hydrogen Backbone in-depth and looking at how it could impact the countries involved within Inn2POWER.

Innovation to push offshore wind energy and green hydrogen regions

Delving into how the Inn2Power Portal works, the interactive company directory enables connection between your business with other partners across Europe.

Inn2POWER’s cluster organisations work closely together, guiding your organisation towards new market entries and future partnerships, while also providing an opportunity to promote companies to showcase their capabilities to an international network, improving knowledge and skills, as well as helping rise to innovation challenges in industry.

Inn2Power North Sea network opens up possibilities and new markets for hydrogen business!

Offshore wind energy aligned with green hydrogen plays a significant role in the plans to make Europe the very first climate neutral continent. The platform is designed to provide opportunities for SMEs in the North Sea region to find their place in the related value chain by:

• Supporting partnerships and providing access to new, international markets;
• Mapping out the opportunities and challenges for SMEs regarding green hydrogen and offshore
  wind energy;
• Expanding existing tools (company directory, testfacilities.eu) within the green hydrogen
  network; and
• Strengthening the role of test facilities in the interconnected offshore wind energy and green
  hydrogen sectors.

The platform has been successfully promoting offshore wind SMEs into the new market and helped to build transnational collaborations with over 2,000 companies mapped in the interactive platform and ready to ramp up this opportunity with hydrogen value chains across the North Sea region and wider area.

“Inn2POWER wants to stimulate innovation and growth of SMEs in the offshore wind industry and provide them with appropriate expertise and support to explore the possibilities of green hydrogen.”

If your business is looking for partners, new entries and collaboration, or would like to be one of the potential options in our existing value chains, our user-friendly platform allows you to access all organisations and become one! – https://mapping.inn2power.eu