A hydrogen filling station in the UK
Hydrogen Market Databook 2025: Western Europe, part 2
The UK leads Western Europe in terms of active hydrogen project market share, but developments are planned across Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and the Nordic countries
The first part of our 2025 Hydrogen Market Databook chapter on Western Europe focused on France, Germany ad the EU in general. This instalment looks at Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, the UK and the Nordic countries. Italy Italy’s Ministry of Economic Development published its National Hydrogen Strategy-Preliminary Guidelines in 2020. The plan calls for hydrogen to comprise 2% of the country’s energy demand by 2030, increasing to 20% by 2050. The plan also aims for the construction of 5GW of electrolyser capacity—approximately 700,000t/yr of green hydrogen—by the end of the decade. Green hydrogen will be used primarily in four application areas: heavy-haul vehicles, railways, ind
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