EU caught between hydrogen targets and climate ambition
Feedback on release of delegated acts shows how laws must support both hydrogen deployment and climate goals
The European Commission will have to steer a path between the need to accelerate the rollout of green hydrogen infrastructure and the need to ensure this infrastructure produces hydrogen that is sufficiently low-carbon, according to feedback on its proposed laws. Under the current delegated act proposals there are two options for power supply for an electrolyser that creates hydrogen that can be defined as renewable—direct connection and grid connection. Direct connection requires the electrolyser to be linked up to to an additional renewable asset with some supplementary criteria, while grid connection requires no additional renewable asset but much stricter criteria. Under direct connectio
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