NHyRA will organise the workshop “Building a sustainable Hydrogen Economy: insights from HYDRA & NHyRA projects on Thursday, March 12 (3:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., CET), focused on gathering our main progress. This workshop, organised by the European Gas Research Group (GERG) and beWarrant Tinexta Innovation Hub, will be held as a side event of the European Hydrogen Energy Conference 2026, which is taking place in Seville (Spain). For this occasion, NHyRA will join forces with HYDRA, a project dedicated to examining the implications of widespread hydrogen adoption as a carbon-free energy source.
Vittoria Troisi, Decarbonization Technology R&D Specialist at Snam and NHyRA’s project coordinator, will present our project to the attendees. After a presentation of HYDRA, the first of three sessions scheduled for the day will begin. The first session, focusing on the hydrogen value chain and leakage points, will offer an overview of the value chain and the main emission points identified in NHyRA by Alessandro Guzzini, Research Fellow at the University of Bologna. It will also analyse the estimated hydrogen losses along the chain, presented by the HYDRA team.
During the second session, the focus will be on scenarios for the future hydrogen economy. To this end, the NHyRA project will look at the details behind the strategic planning of future hydrogen economies through Yasaman Nosrat Tajoddin, Researcher at Sustainable Energy at Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK). The HYDRA consortium will review the possible hydrogen emissions in each scenario, while also considering the potential environmental risks and climate impact in each one of them.
The last session will be devoted to a practical perspective on technologies for detecting hydrogen leakages. Haydn Barros, Higher Scientist at the United Kingdom’s National Physical Laboratory will present NHyRA’s evolution of the methodologies developed during the project for hydrogen leakage detection, as well as offering the first experimental results. Then, Alessandro Saccardi, Research Engineer at FBK, will also explain our experience with leakage monitoring from electrolyser producers. On the other hand, HYDRA will explain the technologies developed in its project, together with the testing activities carried out with this technology.
After the sessions, it will be time for debate in this workshop, as partners from both projects will discuss some vital points in the construction of a safe and sustainable hydrogen value chain. The central issues of the debate will include the standards required for H₂ leak monitoring, viable mitigation measures, the integration of environmental aspects into hydrogen policies, dialogue between research, industry, and policymakers, and the priorities for future R&D efforts.
If you are interested in attending this workshop, remember that you can register either online or in person via this link.
