Is hydrogen more than hype? The European Commission thinks so, and on Wednesday unveiled a strategy to build an energy supply system around the lightest element as part of Europe’s green goals. Commission officials said clean hydrogen could eliminate carbon-dioxide emissions from big energy users like aviation, shipping and trucks, and help the EU meet its pledge to be climate-neutral by 2050. “We need a complete overhaul of the energy system,” Commission Executive Vice President Frans Timmermans said, as he outlined the three conditions needed to make hydrogen a successful energy source.
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The European Commission yesterday unveiled its long-awaited hydrogen strategy, outlining its vision to ramp up the EU’s renewable hydrogen capacity from 1GW today to 6GW by 2024 and 40GW by 2030. The Commission said its priority would be to develop green hydrogen, produced by electrolysers powered by renewable energy. However, in a move that sparked criticism from some green groups the Commission confirmed it would also support blue hydrogen, produced using fossil fuels at plants that could be linked to carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems in the short and medium term.
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German politicians and the country’s heavy industry have welcomed the European hydrogen strategy presented by the European Commission, which closely mirrored Germany’s own strategy published last month. “The current crisis gives us the opportunity to significantly advance Europe’s transformation into a leading market for digital, sustainable and climate-friendly technologies. In this context, hydrogen plays a crucial role,” German energy minister Peter Altmaier said. The Commission paper lays down a three-step plan, which starts with construction of electrolysers to produce green hydrogen for use in industries (steel, chemicals, refineries) up until 2024, followed by the creation of local hydrogen production hotspots, which will be linked to industrial users and buildings in so-called “hydrogen valleys”, by 2030.
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The EU aims to support the development of up to 40GW of electrolysers as part of a green hydrogen strategy that prioritises production from wind and solar energy. However, the EU will also fund carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies that can only partly mitigate the use of fossil fuels to generate hydrogen.
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