Hydrogen Archives

the Australian Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Madeleine King argued for more European investments into the Australian critical minerals sector, criticising the EU's insistence on banning dual pricing in the free trade negotiations between the EU and Australia.

Germany will not be able to meet all of its hydrogen demand from piped gas, the cheapest way of transporting hydrogen, forcing the country to rely on costlier shipping options instead, according to a new study by influential think-tank Agora Energiewende.

While Europe has adopted stringent standards for the production of renewable hydrogen, regulatory battles in the US may prove decisive for the fate of the EU electrolyser industry.

Demand for renewable hydrogen in Europe is expected to hit 8.5 million tonnes by 2030, far below the EU's planned 20 million tonnes, according to the industry, which calls for a shift in strategy to ramp up supply and demand.

The French government will release €4 billion in subsidies in the form of public-private contracts for the development of low-carbon hydrogen projects as part of the country's updated national hydrogen strategy.

The Indian government has set an emission limit of two-kilogram carbon-dioxide for every kilogram of hydrogen produced to be classified as "green" from renewable sources, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said on Saturday (19 August).

Berlin has been making “good progress” in its talks with the European Commission on the potential scope of national subsidies for hydrogen power plants, according to German Economy and Energy Minister Robert Habeck.

The new German hydrogen strategy takes itself and the EU closer to the front of the pack, but to close the deal, European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic is needed, writes Jorgo Chatzimarkakis. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis is the CEO of the industry lobby …

Germany’s updated hydrogen strategy, unveiled on Wednesday (26 July) places heavy emphasis on imports from Denmark and Norway while securing "blue hydrogen" production from fossil gas using CCS technology to mitigate the related emissions.

Germany received the green light to support the production of so-called green steel with €2 billion, the European Commission announced on Thursday, providing much-needed relief to the country’s ailing steel sector.

A group of gas grid operators on Wednesday (12J uly) presented their plan for Germany’s main hydrogen transport network that ought to be constructed by 2032, although the government has shown little interest in funding it.

The European Union's goals for production of green hydrogen by 2030 are inflated and unrealistic, the CEO of Portugal's main utility EDP, said on Tuesday (11 July), citing regulatory uncertainty and slow progress so far.

EU lawmaker and head of the European Parliament’s trade committee Bernd Lange (S&D) is calling for taxes to be imposed on US-produced hydrogen – a move Lange views as the bloc’s response to the €370 billion US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) aimed at increasing green investments.

The hydrogen industry is cautious about making final investment decisions in Europe as EU regulators struggle to complete the bloc's regulatory puzzle. 

Despite the hydrogen economy still being in its infancy, Europe is already buzzing with new projects, as governments and private investors raise their ambition and inject billions into the development of the clean-burning fuel. In this special report, EURACTIV looks at …

While carrying out work to check the risk of firedamp pockets in the abandoned mines of the Lorraine region in May, La Française d'Énergie (FDE) discovered a large deposit of natural hydrogen, igniting hopes that it could be a game changer in Europe's energy transition.

Spain will double its 2030 biogas production target and almost triple its green hydrogen goal as part of a broad upgrade of its energy and climate ambitions, a draft of the government's strategy showed on Wednesday (28 June).

Berlin is fighting for South Africa to stay on track to phase out coal as agreed, despite domestic pushback against the planned mothballing of aged power plants amid an ongoing energy crisis.

Increased cooperation in the field of green hydrogen as well as dialogue with third countries concerning the war in Ukraine, were the main topics during Prime Minister Rutte’s (VVD/Renew) visit to Namibia on Monday.

European Union countries will try again this week to pass a deal on new renewable energy targets, which have been stalled by concerns from France and other states that the law sidelines nuclear energy.

The European Parliament is debating whether to scrap the idea of “strategic" technologies in a draft EU regulation aimed at promoting industries that will drive the green transition, with some lawmakers calling for a wider approach and others a more focused one.

The first auction to support green hydrogen production in Europe will help understand supply and demand on the emerging EU market when it takes place at the end of the year, according to the European Commission.

US company Plug Power announced a billion-euro investment to develop hydrogen production plants in Finland as energy strategy and climate targets were being questioned by the Finns Party in government negotiations.

A joint declaration to cooperate on green hydrogen production was signed by Irish Climate and Environment Minister Eamon Ryan and Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Education and Research Minister Mario Brandenburg on Wednesday.