German Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP/Renew) warned against "CO2 tourism", as EU rules for renewable fuels could lead to liquified CO2 from Europe being shipped to other parts of the world to produce e-fuels for the EU market.
Average emissions of new trucks will have to be reduced by 90% by 2040, compared to 2019, the European Parliament decided on Wednesday (10 April), adopting a law that will drastically reduce the number of new diesel trucks.
France will give the green light to new investments in nuclear fusion, natural hydrogen, energy storage and carbon capture, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday (11 December).
EU legislators on Friday (8 December) struck a political agreement on the final piece of the Union's hydrogen policy, establishing a grid planning body that will gradually become independant from existing gas network operators.
Work on fostering a global hydrogen economy is progressing, with the launch in Dubai of a 30-country coalition committed to mutual recognition of certificates and a new international standard. Hydrogen, a clean burning gas, is expected to play a crucial role …
Portugal’s hydrogen project in Sines was selected as one of the cross-border energy initiatives eligible to apply for EU financial support because they are in line with the Green Deal, according to a list published by the EU Commission on Tuesday.
Negotiations on the first part of the EU's new gas and hydrogen market rules have been concluded, paving the way for investments into new infrastructure amid a special carve-out for Germany's municipal utilities.
As EU legislators wrap negotiations on the EU's new hydrogen rulebook, they have one last question to answer: how to regulate the ownership of pipeline and storage infrastructure.
The EU's Hydrogen Bank has begun operations and is offering €800 million to hydrogen producers to kickstart demand for the fuel crucial to industrial decarbonisation. By 2030, Europe wants to produce 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen annually. To get companies …
Italy and Germany want to circumvent the Alps by transforming gas pipelines into ones capable of carrying hydrogen, a clean burning gas that Berlin hopes will aid it in decarbonising its industry.
As the science about the climate impact of hydrogen becomes clearer, discussions on whether a dedicated law is needed to detect and repair leaks from infrastructure are also gaining momentum.
The German government is poised to put its weight behind a network of hydrogen pipelines stretching 9,700 kilometres and coming at a cost of €20 billion in a bid to solve the hydrogen economy's ‘chicken-and-egg' dilemma.
Germany could soon become the first European country to put in place a policy framework for supporting investments in hydrogen infrastructure, in anticipation of EU regulations that are currently still in the making.
Hopes were high for the BarMar hydrogen pipeline project linking Spain and France when it was announced almost a year ago. But with no news since then, French experts say the project was in fact always a non-starter.
Faced with the growing dominance of electric vehicles, the hydrogen industry is betting on commercial vehicles to capture a share of the clean mobility market.
Belgium has launched a call for proposals to prepare its ports to import massive amounts of green hydrogen as part of its efforts to become a 'hydrogen gateway', Belgian Energy Minister Tinne Van der Straeten announced.
As the European Union finalises its hydrogen and gas rulebook, key issues remain on how to remunerate network operators for building and maintaining Europe’s future hydrogen grid.
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.
