{"id":306481,"date":"2024-03-07T19:43:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=306481"},"modified":"2024-03-07T19:43:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:43:59","slug":"europe-is-struggling-to-meet-green-hydrogen-goals-send-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=306481","title":{"rendered":"Europe is Struggling to Meet Green Hydrogen Goals, Send Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WINNING: \u20ac22 Billion EU Government money spent to produce 20,000 tons of green hydrogen, at a price of \u20ac1.1 million per ton, or \u20ac1,100 \/ kg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What\u2019s stopping Europe from reaching its clean hydrogen goals?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Andrea Bolitho<\/a> & Euronews<\/strong>
Published on 05\/03\/2024 \u2013 17:00\u2022Updated 06\/03\/2024 \u2013 10:51 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green hydrogen is predicted to be a leading renewable energy source in the future, but production in Europe must ramp up massively to hit targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the EU has pinned green hydrogen<\/strong><\/a> as one of the fuels of the future and aims<\/strong><\/a> to generate 10 million tonnes while importing a further 10 million tonnes by the end of the decade, renewable hydrogen production in Europe was just 20,000 tonnes in 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, 96 per cent of hydrogen used across Europe in 2022 was made from natural gas, resulting in significant carbon emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need a clear regulation and a clear permitting process, and we need access to the [energy] grid,\u201d explained Carlos F\u00fanez Guerra, the Green Hydrogen Development Manager at Iberdrola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can Europe still reach its goal?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe big question behind all of this is money and funds,\u201d reminded Malvault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Commission<\/strong> has implemented a clean hydrogen regulatory framework and is investing heavily, so far, it has provided \u20ac22 billion and counting.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Malvault warned Euronews that more funding will still be needed to reach the EU\u2019s targets.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2024\/03\/05\/whats-stopping-europe-from-reaching-its-clean-hydrogen-goals<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

What can I say? If only some of these affordable and economically viable climate goals could be achieved without spending so much taxpayer subsidy cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Correction (EW): h\/t\u00a0Scarecrow Repair<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 \u20ac1100 \/ kg, not \u20ac11,000 per kg. We\u2019re saved!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WINNING: \u20ac22 Billion EU Government money spent to produce 20,000 tons of green hydrogen, at a price of \u20ac1.1 million per ton, or \u20ac1,100 \/ kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":306483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"WINNING: \u20ac22 Billion EU Government money spent to produce 20,000 tons of green hydrogen, at a price of \u20ac1.1 million per ton, or \u20ac1,100 \/ kg.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691827470,691827469,691819094,691825424],"class_list":["post-306481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clean-hydrogen","tag-eu-government","tag-renewable-green-energy","tag-the-european-commission","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1hJf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":284000,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=284000","url_meta":{"origin":306481,"position":0},"title":"Green Hydrogen Needs Vast Subsidies","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"10\/19\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Hydrogen is\u00a0not a fuel. 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