Hydrogen Valley Podcast

Hydrogen economy needs supporting infrastructure. Hydrogen is a gas. We have transported and stored various gases in pipes and tanks for well over a century. Is hydrogen somehow different to for example natural gas? Can we reuse existing transmission infrastructure? Where should new hydrogen pipes be built and why? How is the electricity grid connected to this decision? And how the electricity grid infrastructure supports the hydrogen economy? Episode Guests: Esa Hallivuori, Senior Vice President, Gasgrid Janne Seppänen, Senior Expert - Strategic Grid Planning, Fingrid, and Professor of Practice, 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 May-June 2025. 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.comand is licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 license

We have known how to produce hydrogen for over 100 years - but mostly relying on carbon-intensive production methods. Currently, greener and cleaner hydrogen production is more expensive. To bring the cost down, we need to scale up the production capacity. How is green hydrogen produced? What are the bottlenecks and costly steps? How can we solve them and ramp up production capacity? Episode guests: Tanja Kallio, Associate Professor, Aalto University Tuomo Rinne, Vice President, Business Development, P2X Solutions 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 late April-June 2025. 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

Show(el) Me the Money! Hydrogen Regulation, Incentives, and Investments In addition to being a key part of the green energy transition, the hydrogen economy has been hyped up as a potential gold mine and creator of jobs by industry pundits and governments alike. But investments have been slower and smaller than initially anticipated. Stories about the death of the hydrogen hype have been piling up in the media lately. Why is this? Is the hydrogen economy takeoff really stalling? And what roles regulation,  incentives and investments play in all this? Episode Guests: Christian Langen, Executive in Residence, Aalto University Janne Peljo, Chief Policy Adviser, Finnish Confederation of Industries Jan Feller, CEO, German-Finnish Chamber of Commerce 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 May-June 2025. 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.

Firms, the EU and national governments are now investing and betting large sums of money on green hydrogen. It is seen as a big component in our urgently needed transition to greener forms of energy to fight climate change. But hydrogen has been used in industry for over a hundred of years. Why are we pinning our hopes on green hydrogen now? Is the hype warranted? What’s different now? Episode guests: Mika Järvinen, Associate professor, Aalto University Simo Säynevirta, Head of H2 Springboard ecosystem, ABB Samuel Cross PhD, Coordinator, Hydrogen Innovation Center, 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 late April 2025. 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

Hydrogen is expected to be a key part of our green energy transition. But we have used hydrogen for over 100 years. Why is there hype around hydrogen now? Are the hopes warranted? What is required to make the hydrogen economy a reality? In the soon to be published Hydrogen Valley Podcast, Mikko Heiskala, a visiting researcher at the Department of Industrial Engineering at Aalto University interviews researchers and industry experts from the Baltic Sea H2 Hydrogen Valley, the European H2 Valley of the Year 2025 to understand what the hydrogen economy is about, its components, and what is needed to make it a reality. Subscribe or follow now so you do not miss the episodes! 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. Hydrogen Valley Podcast is scripted, recorded, edited, mixed, and hosted by Mikko Heiskala.