Episode 6: Happy couples, Happy valley? Sector coupling and valley model as drivers for hydrogen economy
Green hydrogen is still more expensive than the carbon-intensive alternatives. So called sector couplings or sector integrations are an important way to combat this.
These come in varied shapes and sizes. Common to them is that they are best realised when they are also geographically close or even co-located. This is why we also talk about hydrogen valleys.
But what are the valleys? And the sector couplings? What is needed to form them?
Episode guests:
- Heli Virkki, VP, Hydrogen valleys and customer projects, Gasgrid
- Simo Säynevirta, Head of H2 Springboard ecosystem, ABB
- Kimmo Karhu, Assistant professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University
Hydrogen Valley Podcast is scripted, recorded, edited, mixed, and hosted by Mikko Heiskala, a visiting researcher at Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Aalto University.
Episode interviews were recorded in June and November 2025.
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The podcast has received financial support from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Aalto University.
BalticSeaH2 Hydrogen Valley -project, is co-funded by the European Union through Clean Hydrogen Partnership and its members. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Clean Hydrogen Partnership. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
The podcast tune song is Limit 70 by Kevin MacLeod of incompetech.com and is licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 license.
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