Brussels (energate) - The EU Commission will apply the planned strict criteria for the production of green hydrogen to imports. This was clariefied by a Commission representative at a conference of the Eurelectric association in Brussels. In May, the EU Commission had presented a proposal for a regulation (Delegated Act) to ensure that only "additional" green electricity is used for the production of electrolysis hydrogen ("additionality"). The authority wants to prevent a mere relabelling, so that the additional purchase of green electricity by some consumers results in the increased supply of environmentally harmful electricity to other consumers (
energate reported).
Thus, the production of renewable electricity and renewable hydrogen should correlate geographically and temporally when the electricity comes from the grid. According to the draft, for the direct connection of an electrolysis plant to a renewable energy plant, the latter may not be more than three years older than the former. This excludes old wind and solar parks from supplying the electrolysers. There is criticism of this because some operators fear the end of their projects (
energate reported).
Numerous responses from Germany
Until 17 June, there was a chance to submit comments on the EU Commission's proposals. According to information available to energate, at least 55 companies and organisations responded to the EU Commission's draft, including EnBW, EWE, the Association of the Industrial Energy and Power Industry and Denafrom Germany, and RAG Austria AG and Gas Connect Austria from Austria. Accordingly, feedback from Germany has a share of 13 per cent. Most of the responses welcome the regulation in principle. However, many find the criteria too restrictive (
energate reported). /rl/kw
