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Key lawmaker pushes 10% ‘low-carbon hydrogen’ target in EU renewables law
(EurActiv, 18 Mar 2022) The lawmaker in charge of drafting the European Parliament’s position on the EU’s recast renewable energy directive is pushing to include a 10% target for “low-carbon hydrogen” as part of efforts to kick-start the EU market.
The European Commission seeks to ramp up clean hydrogen production in the EU, with at least 40 gigawatts of new electrolysers expected to produce up to 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen by 2030 – mainly coming from wind and solar.
The aim is for renewable hydrogen technologies to reach maturity by 2050 so that they can be deployed at scale across all hard-to-decarbonise sectors, such as chemicals and steelmaking.
Yet, ramping up volumes of green hydrogen will take years, said Markus Pieper, a German lawmaker for the conservative European People’s Party who steers the European Parliament’s position on the EU’s recast renewable energy directive.
“Many scientists say that by 2030 we will not be able to achieve the 50% target of green hydrogen for industry,” Pieper told EURACTIV in an interview.
“If the amount of hydrogen is not sufficient in the foreseeable future, the rest will be grey hydrogen, which will mean that we will miss our CO2 targets,” he warned, referring to hydrogen produced from natural gas, which produces climate-warming emissions.
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EurActiv, 18 Mar 2022: Key lawmaker pushes 10% ‘low-carbon hydrogen’ target in EU renewables law
