- Despite favourable winds due to high gas prices, Europe’s fledgling hydrogen-based industrial transformation is hitting several roadblocks: lack of legal certainty, next-to-no infrastructure and limited availability of green hydrogen made from renewables.
- Hydrogen is governed by various laws, like the gas package proposed by the European Commission in December 2021 and the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED).
- Rules for “renewable” hydrogen production have been delayed for years due to national interference and the European Parliament going at it alone in defining “additionality” criteria for the production of green hydrogen.
Steelmakers frustrated with slow start of EU green hydrogen production
