This session will demonstrate how RIs and TIs are central to Europe’s transition toward a clean, secure, and affordable energy future, focusing on hydrogen, advanced batteries, and nuclear technologies. The objectives are to illustrate the full value chain, from pioneering research and piloting, through to deployment at an industrial scale, and to identify how collaboration between infrastructures and private actors accelerates innovation cycles.

Speakers have been chosen to provide a breadth of perspectives—ranging from research leaders driving fundamental breakthroughs, to industrial partners enabling large-scale application, to policy experts shaping enabling frameworks. Their interventions will showcase successful technology transfer, validation, and demonstration projects, highlighting ways that infrastructure investments underpin societal transitions to carbon neutrality.

The expected outcome is a set of tangible recommendations on how to strengthen the ecosystem connecting RIs/TIs with the energy sector—identifying gaps, opportunities for greater impact, and pathways for more effective integration into European energy and climate strategies.