The EU’s hydrogen strategy is out laying out a European vision for hydrogen. THREAD euractiv.com/section/energy…
1/ Key sectors for using hydrogen identified in the strategy include industry (e.g. steel, chemicals), shipping and aviation. This is sensible as few alternatives exist for decarbonising these sectors.
2/ The Hydrogen Strategy assumes a lot of hydrogen from gas reforming with CCS will be needed as hydrogen from renewable electricity won’t be available fast enough to meet demand. Risk here is lock in as so-called blue hydrogen is not zero carbon.
3/ Heating buildings is mentioned scarcely in the document (the word heat appears twice). But the Strategy assumes some buildings will use hydrogen for heating in “Hydrogen Valleys” i.e. local clusters of hydrogen production and consumption.
4/ Use of hydrogen for heavy-duty transport is mentioned but direct electrification might be possible and could be cheaper and more efficient.
