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Ballard Power Systems Europe

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Ballard is a global supplier of fuel cell solutions for the transport and energy sectors.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Laia Pinos Mataro (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné) and Alstom and

16 Oct 2025 · Role of fuel cells in in strengthening the EU’s decarbonisation and competitiveness agendas

Meeting with Javier Moreno Sánchez (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Dec 2024 · Trade policy with Canada

Response to Roadmap on REPowering the EU with Hydrogen Valleys

4 Sept 2023

Ballard Power Systems Europe is a supplier of hydrogen fuel cells for mobility and energy applications. Ballard actively supports the EUs objective of doubling the number of Hydrogen Valleys (H2Vs) in the EU by 2025 and is itself involved in two valleys selected for co-funding by the European Clean Hydrogen Partnership in January 2023: the Crete valley and the Baltic Sea Valley. With more than 40 years of activities in the field of hydrogen, Ballard has witnessed first-hand the complexity of creating hydrogen eco-systems. Building a hydrogen supply infrastructure, introducing hydrogen in mobility, energy, and industrial applications, and creating a viable long-term business plan are tremendous challenges that require public authorities support and political backing. Hydrogen valleys foster and facilitate cooperation between public and private organizations and are therefore critical to address these challenges. The European Commission and the European Clean Hydrogen Partnership support to H2Vs, through the creation of the S3 Hydrogen Valleys partnership, funding and networking opportunities already had a very positive effect on the sector. For these initiatives to be even more impactful, Ballard would suggest the following changes: Hydrogen valleys require coordination between dozens of players to come to fruition and generally have a long lead time. Delays, consortium changes, etc. are commonplace and the lack of predictability regarding EU call for proposals may add another layer of uncertainty to the process. In some cases, it may lead consortiums to present immature projects for the fear of missing a funding application deadline. To make funding opportunities more predictable, we suggest accepting project applications on a rolling basis. Given CEF funding, the hydrogen bank and other financial instruments focus towards hydrogen production and infrastructure, we would suggest establishing a mechanism within the valley to focus on end-use applications. There is limited stimulus at EU-level for fleets and deployments, which could be considered a barrier for transport applications. In addition to the funding offered by the European Clean Hydrogen Partnership, individual Member States such as France, Spain or Italy are also supporting the development of valleys at national level. These initiatives are welcome, but some coordination would lower the administrative burden related to project application: common eligibility criteria, project description template, etc. If coordination of national funding proves too complex, regular updates of the EU country fund list under the Hydrogen Public Funding Compass would already be a very positive step.
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Response to Net Zero Industry Act

27 Jun 2023

Ballard Power Systems Europe welcome the European Commission's proposal for a Net Zero Industry Act. Clean technologies have reached a level of maturity that allows to select the most promising ones to accelerate the pace of decarbonization and support Europe's industrial competitiveness. Nevertheless, to strengthen this text Ballard suggests clarifying several elements of this proposal: - To keep the text focus, the list of net zero strategic technologies should be kept relatively short, but be detailed enough to avoid different interpretation of the text later on. For instance, we would encourage the European Commission to consider electrolyzers and fuel cells as two separate technologies. - Related to this, the aspirational target of building 40% of these technologies in Europe by 2030 seems difficult to reach given the very different starting points of each clean technology. We therefore suggest to use differentiated targets for each technology. - Several phrases in the recital and in the core text refer to components. It is not clear how far up and down the value chain this goes. More clarity would help. - The new public procurement rules also lack clarity: 1) it is not clear if such rules only apply to bare products, or to products integrated into more complex systems. In the case of fuel cells, do the requirements apply to fuel cell integrated into vehicles or other applications? 2) The resilience criteria should be more precise, so that the 65% of single source trigger is adjusted or entirely removed for countries with whom the EU has entered into a free trade agreement. These markets do not have the same level of supply risk and this rule may push very competitive bids out of the procurement process. This would result in minor supply chain resilience improvements but major damage to the EU's trade openness and credibility. Last but not least, the NZIA sends a strong signal to the industry but it is poorly aligned with existing funding instruments. For instance, the State Aid Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework allows members to support investment in electrolyzer manufacturing, but not fuel cell manufacturing. This discrepancy should be addressed.
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Meeting with Bergur Løkke Rasmussen (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and E-MOBILITY EUROPE

12 Apr 2023 · Strengthening the CO2 emission performance targets for new heavy-duty vehicles

Meeting with Caroline Nagtegaal (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment) and

24 Nov 2021 · AFIR