- Shortly after its appointment last year, the new German government interfered in Brussels to influence draft EU laws regulating the production of renewable hydrogen, resulting in almost a year of delay, EURACTIV can reveal.
- Hydrogen is expected to play a key role in Europe’s decarbonisation effort but actual market uptake has been slow due to regulatory uncertainty.
- The European Parliament even added to the confusion by voting an amendment to the EU’s renewable energy directive in September.
Revealed: How Germany stepped in to delay EU’s ‘green’ hydrogen rules
