20.02.2025 - Axpo is committed to actively promoting the hydrogen economy in Switzerland and Europe. In addition to its role as a producer of green hydrogen, the company announced today her support of a new digital platform designed to bring together participants in the hydrogen market. The initiative will create an invaluable network for customers, producers and transport service providers, and make an important contribution to decarbonisation.
A strong network of producers, customers and transport service providers is essential for the efficient development of the hydrogen market in Switzerland. The new MatcH2 digital platform launched by Axpo will do just that, promoting networking in this exciting renewable energy sector. As Axpo’s Hydrogen Market & Pricing Manager Michael Limacher explains, ‘The platform will show the available amount of green hydrogen molecules and thus strengthen the confidence of potential customers in a reliable source of supply.’
Axpo’s team is convinced that for the hydrogen market to grow to its full potential, both producers and customers must have planning security. The new MatcH2 platform will help ensure this in two ways. First, by providing consumers with information on where green hydrogen is available in Switzerland. And secondly, by giving producers an overview of the demand for hydrogen, provided by data from the customers themselves. This will also contribute to planning security for the developers of production projects, who can better anticipate future demand by using the platform. In doing all this, MatcH2 will therefore help enable a coordinated development of the hydrogen economy. Service providers will also be present on the platform, offering services such as transportation and delivery between producers and consumers, thus ensuring security of supply.
Searching for ways to effectively network participants in Switzerland’s hydrogen market, Axpo hydrogen team’s head of strategy Luka Cuderman discovered the software company Localiser. Working closely together, they created MatcH2 which, he emphasises, is not a trading platform but a networking initiative that promotes exchange between all relevant players in the hydrogen market.
Axpo’s Head of Green Gases, Guy Bühler, adds: ‘Thanks to the commitment of several key H2 players, the platform actively supports the development of the hydrogen market in Switzerland. With this and many other initiatives, Axpo is creating a solid foundation for progress in all aspects of decarbonisation, helping to ensure a successful energy transition.’
The MatcH2 platform will actively promote development of the green hydrogen market in Switzerland. Axpo has already invested in the supply side by opening the largest green hydrogen production plant of its kind in Switzerland, at Domat/Ems. Just a few weeks ago, Axpo and its partners celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony for its next hydrogen plant in Bürglen, central Switzerland. Hydrogen produced there will power the first H2 passenger vessel on Lake Lucerne from 2026, using locally produced green gas.
In addition to projects in Switzerland, Axpo is also involved in a mobility initiative in France. With the help of “Arve hydrogène mobilité” project, hydrogen-powered vehicles are refuelled at an H2 service station. Axpo is also working with energy investor ENEGO to examine the feasibility of a 100 MW hydrogen production plant in south-eastern Sicily and is developing one of the largest H2 plants in Italy in the Valle Peligna in Abruzzo with Australian company IGE.
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