EU Inner Market Commissioner Thierry Breton and 20 European electrolyser producers have signed a Joint Declaration in Brussels whereby business dedicated to a tenfold improve of its electrolyser manufacturing capacities by 2025. It will allow the annual EU manufacturing of 10 million tons of renewable hydrogen by 2030, set as goal within the March 2022 REPowerEU Communication will enhance Europe’s sustainable and safe vitality provide and cut back EU’s reliance on Russian gasoline.
“Clear hydrogen is indispensable to scale back industrial carbon emissions and contribute to our vitality independence from Russia,” Breton mentioned. “Now we have no time to lose, which is why this European electrolyser summit is so opportune. As we speak, business agreed to a tenfold improve in electrolyser manufacturing capacities in Europe. The Fee will assist this essential industrial upscaling for an industrial management within the clear vitality applied sciences of the long run,” he added.
The Joint Declaration units out a goal agreed by electrolyser producers in Europe to extend their manufacturing capability tenfold to 17.5 GW per yr, the Fee mentioned. It additionally options Fee actions to place in place a supportive regulatory framework, facilitate entry to finance and promote environment friendly provide chains. Amongst them:
Making certain that regulation governing the manufacturing of renewable hydrogen assist a quick and inexpensive ramp-up of the marketplace for renewable hydrogen and its manufacturing in Europe;
Adoption of a advice and a legislative proposal on accelerated allowing for renewable vitality initiatives, together with renewable hydrogen;
Evaluation of State help notification for hydrogen initiatives as a matter of precedence;
Dedication by electrolyser producers to use solely with top quality undertaking proposals which might be totally aligned with the local weather targets and REPowerEU ambition;
Collaboration with the EIB to facilitate the financing of electrolyser manufacturing and deployment initiatives;
Institution of an ‘match for 55′ that can convey collectively electrolyser producers and suppliers of elements and supplies throughout the present buildings of the European Clear Hydrogen Alliance;
Joint dedication to combine the worth chain, diversify and deal with dependency of key uncooked supplies and chemical substances throughout the framework of the EU industrial technique.
The actions agreed will pave the best way for large-scale clear hydrogen manufacturing in Europe. It will allow for the decarbonisation of in any other case hard-to-abate business sectors and transport functions in step with our Match for 55 targets and changing Russian gasoline, the Fee mentioned, noting that it’ll promote Europe’s competitiveness, resilience and strategic autonomy and assist be sure that European electrolyser producers keep their world management.
