Hydrogen Market Databook 2025: Western Europe, part 1
The GEI database is tracking nearly 680 active hydrogen projects in Western Europe, with the region accounting for nearly half of the total market share in active hydrogen projects globally
The EU released its hydrogen strategy in 2020. The plan—a pathway to help reach the region’s net-zero ambitions—called for both green hydrogen production and imports into the bloc to reach 10mt/yr by 2030. The plan focused on five areas: investment support, supporting production and demand, creating a hydrogen market and infrastructure, research and cooperation, and international cooperation. According to the European Commission’s hydrogen strategy and REPowerEU, the EU will conduct a phased approach to implementing hydrogen infrastructure and production to 2050: Phase 1 (2020–24) Goals during this period included installing 6GW of renewable hydrogen electrolysers to produce up to 1mt/yr of
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