Busi­nes­sOulu took part in EHEC 2026

The sixth EHEC (Euro­pean Hydro­gen Ener­gy Con­fer­ence) was held in Seville, Spain, from 11th to 13th March 2026. The con­gress offers net­work­ing and a meet­ing place for var­i­ous com­pa­nies in sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy. EHEC is one of the largest hydro­gen events in Europe.

A joint stand orga­nized by Busi­nes­sOulu was found on site, where three Finnish com­pa­nies with strong con­nec­tions to Oulu, were rep­re­sent­ed in addi­tion to CleantechOulu. The stand high­light­ed the diver­si­ty of exper­tise and the region’s role in advanc­ing clean tech­nol­o­gy and indus­tri­al solu­tions. Pin­ja which main­tains sig­nif­i­cant oper­a­tions in Oulu,offers soft­ware and cloud-based solu­tions for indus­tri­al use, which can be used to mon­i­tor, for exam­ple, the imple­men­ta­tion of envi­ron­men­tal goals. Spin-off start-up com­pa­ny from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu and cur­rent­ly Ker­a­va-based hydro­gen com­pa­ny Zun‑H pro­duces emis­sion-free hydro­gen using solar pan­els, the pan­els can be uti­lized on var­i­ous scales, for exam­ple, up to indus­try. The third par­tic­i­pant, Jensen Hugh­es, offers fire pro­tec­tion con­sult­ing, the company’s exper­tise also extends to hydro­gen and nuclear pow­er ser­vices and has estab­lished oper­a­tions in Oulu.

The now more inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ence, which brought togeth­er a cou­ple of thou­sand vis­i­tors, offered an in-depth, sci­ence-focused pro­gram relat­ed to hydro­gen and numer­ous expert dis­cus­sions. Key Account Direc­tor Janne Hietanie­mi also par­tic­i­pat­ed in the inter­na­tion­al round­table dis­cus­sion. Janne men­tions the trans­for­ma­tion of numer­ous hydro­gen pilots into large demos as the best con­tri­bu­tion, as well as news about large invest­ment deci­sions from the Span­ish com­pa­ny Moeve. Moeve is invest­ing a bil­lion in the hydro­gen indus­try and thus strength­en­ing the progress of renew­able ener­gy in south­ern Europe.

The Busi­nes­sOulu depart­ment was praised for its arrange­ments and good con­tacts.
The next EHEC will be held in Madrid in two years.

The joint stand orga­nized by Busi­nes­sOulu was orga­nized as part of the BOIM project.
The BOIM project is imple­ment­ed by Busi­nes­sOulu as part of its inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion and export ser­vices. The project is fund­ed by the North­ern Ostro­both­nia Region, which finances the project as part of the Renew­ing and Skilled Fin­land 2021–2027, the EU’s region­al and struc­tur­al pol­i­cy pro­gramme, from the Euro­pean Region­al Devel­op­ment Fund (ERDF).

Writ­ten by Han­nele Ter­vo.