How the EU addresses the climate crisis has been high up the political agenda in the approach to this week’s elections. But there are two sectors that continue to fly under the radar in the bloc’s pursuit of decarbonisation: shipping and aviation.
The European Commission has published its stocktake of the Clean Transition Dialogues, in which the it engages with industry and social partners to support the implementation of the European Green Deal.
Given its limited supply, green hydrogen must be reserved for hard-to-decarbonise sectors such as aviation and shipping, rather than directed towards sectors that can be electrified, writes Aoife O’Leary.
Green hydrogen projects going online by 2030 may face costs up to twice as high as anticipated until recently. At the same time, recent auction results have demonstrated surprisingly low support requirements. What are the possible explanations?
The EU should create a new, separate entity to ensure more independence from incumbent interests in the crucial task of designing a future-proof hydrogen infrastructure, write Michaela Holl and Megan Anderson.
Everybody talks about cleantech, including politicians who stress the need for more investment in green technologies. Yet, the reality is that we are at an all-time high when it comes to investments in gas, oil and even coal, writes Jorgo Chatzimarkakis.
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 …
The revision of the Renewable Energy Directive sets ambitious targets for renewable fuels of non-biological origin (RFNBOs) in industry and transport. Pia Kerres, Corinna Klessmann and Matthias Schimmel reflect on the RFNBO provisions and the investment signals they send to the evolving European hydrogen market.
Opening the door to hybrid heat pumps and hydrogen boilers will impact consumers, and make it more difficult for them to transition to clean heating while increasing energy costs, argues Monique Goyens.
The European Union’s oversized plans for renewable hydrogen are unrealistic and constitute a risk for the bloc's public finances and decarbonisation efforts, write Luke Haywood and Cosimo Tansini.
The fossil fuels heating industry is trying to push hydrogen boilers as renewable, but at the moment only a very small fraction of hydrogen is green. To halt the greenwashing of heating technologies, legislative clarity is needed, writes Jan Rosenow.
The European Commission’s planned label could define hydrogen as “renewable” even if its production is emissions intensive. With four simple principles, the EU can make sure that this doesn’t happen, writes Matthias Buck.
Strict regulation does not have to stifle the emerging market for green hydrogen — just the opposite, write Benjamin Görlach and Michael Jakob. They argue that a unified system for monitoring, certifying and tracking green hydrogen production and trade is key to all this.
It is now time to act. Policy makers must complete the hydrogen rules. It would allow early movers to invest in Europe’s hydrogen vision. We want to, and Europe needs to, scale up.
The alleged sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline led to widespread concern over the environmental impact of the methane leakage, with scientists warning this could be the largest ever recorded. Yet, this represents about the same amount the oil and gas industry releases worldwide every two days, writes Flavia Sollazzo.
Ukraine can offer the EU an alternative to Russian gas in the future - natural gas produced domestically blended with biomethane or hydrogen, writes Olga Bielkova.
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced on Wednesday (14 September) the intention of creating a new 'European Hydrogen Bank'. However, hydrogen is not an energy source but an energy sink, requiring vast amounts of electricity to be produced, writes Jonas Helseth.
Even as major economies deal with urgent energy security challenges, we must start thinking about the energy sources of the future. The spread of renewables is accelerating but the pace of economic decarbonisation remains too slow. Dr Arunabha Ghosh is CEO, …
Hydrogen holds great potential to assist the EU in achieving independence from Russian fossil fuels. However, for this to happen, policymakers need to unlock financing, simplify permitting procedures and set aside archaic unbundling rules, writes MEP Christian Ehler.
Green ammonia plays a prominent role in the 20 million tonne renewable hydrogen target of the European Commission’s REPowerEU plan. Now it’s time for the EU to put its money where its mouth is, writes Joel Moser.
In light of climate change and the war in Ukraine, the European energy system faces an unprecedented transformation. How can this succeed? Michael Jesberger is the COO of TransnetBW. Let’s assume we are in 2050 and the Green Deal is a success. …
The recipe for independence from Russian gas is the acceleration of the clean energy transition; its success depends on the use of the right ingredients, write Megan Anderson, Bram Claeys and Jan Rosenow.
On 20 May, the European Commission published two delegated acts clarifying EU rules applicable to renewable hydrogen. But the watered-down rules on renewable energy production following industry demands are endangering the achievement of the EU's climate targets, writes Marta Lovisolo.
“Green” hydrogen rightly plays a central role in the European Commission’s ambitious climate agenda and the EU’s path toward climate neutrality. However, it would be misconceived to assume that it is the best solution to decarbonize every industry sector. The Commission’s plan for obligatory use of green hydrogen in industry, for instance, ignores the enormous potential of other emissions reduction pathways, including the reuse of residual gases in the chemical industry.
