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#EUinTwo: Hydrogen's role in decarbonisation
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In our new #EUinTwo video, Laura Rozzo talks about how hydrogen will be a powerful tool to decarbonise the transport sector in the years to come.
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In the framework of the Green deal, Hydrogen is a versatile resource that can contribute to the decarbonization of several sectors such as energy, transport and industry in general. It could account for 24% of final energy demand and it is expected to generate 5.4 million jobs by 2050.
With this potential, the EU plans to lead on hydrogen technologies and large-scale deployment as it faces international competition from Japan and South Korea, for example.
Of course, Hydrogen comes with a set of challenges. At the moment, it is difficult and expensive to produce. It is also tricky to work with: it is a gas that quickly escapes through leaks in storage or transport infrastructure.
On the production side, most of the hydrogen available today is called grey hydrogen and is produced from fossil fuels. A greener intermediate solution would be to capture carbon emissions from traditional production through carbon capture and storage (CCS), which will be called Blue hydrogen. However, CCS technologies are still in early stages of development. Finally, green hydrogen produced entirely from electricity by electrolysis from water is today very expensive and not yet an economically viable option.
On the infrastructure point, although hydrogen could be blended with natural gas and transported through existing gas infrastructure, the pipelines would need to be adapted in order to transport higher levels of blending and to extract hydrogen close to the point of end use.
Despite these challenges, the hydrogen industry is rapidly growing. The Hydrogen Council says the cost of producing hydrogen could be halved by 2030, opening up commercial applications like heavy-duty transport.
Hydrogen has momentum in Brussels and we are watching closely the initiatives the EU will propose to foster its development, whether it is a gas strategy or the upcoming industrial strategy.
Script:
In the framework of the Green deal, Hydrogen is a versatile resource that can contribute to the decarbonization of several sectors such as energy, transport and industry in general. It could account for 24% of final energy demand and it is expected to generate 5.4 million jobs by 2050.
With this potential, the EU plans to lead on hydrogen technologies and large-scale deployment as it faces international competition from Japan and South Korea, for example.
Of course, Hydrogen comes with a set of challenges. At the moment, it is difficult and expensive to produce. It is also tricky to work with: it is a gas that quickly escapes through leaks in storage or transport infrastructure.
On the production side, most of the hydrogen available today is called grey hydrogen and is produced from fossil fuels. A greener intermediate solution would be to capture carbon emissions from traditional production through carbon capture and storage (CCS), which will be called Blue hydrogen. However, CCS technologies are still in early stages of development. Finally, green hydrogen produced entirely from electricity by electrolysis from water is today very expensive and not yet an economically viable option.
On the infrastructure point, although hydrogen could be blended with natural gas and transported through existing gas infrastructure, the pipelines would need to be adapted in order to transport higher levels of blending and to extract hydrogen close to the point of end use.
Despite these challenges, the hydrogen industry is rapidly growing. The Hydrogen Council says the cost of producing hydrogen could be halved by 2030, opening up commercial applications like heavy-duty transport.
Hydrogen has momentum in Brussels and we are watching closely the initiatives the EU will propose to foster its development, whether it is a gas strategy or the upcoming industrial strategy.
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