Gnevamir Fleece discusses European green hydrogen regulatory criteria under the Renewable Energy Directive II Delegated Act.
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Fleece: Relaxing hydrogen correlation rules will increase gas burning and insecurity
“In fact, if you have super relaxed rules, which you would base purely on renewable energy credits, or maybe guarantees of origin with no form of additionality whatsoever, you would actually Increase energy insecurity, because you'd be burning more gas than if …”
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Fleece: Cheaper renewables abroad will drive industrial production out of Europe
“So I think we will, in the end, see some industrial shift out of Europe, just because it'll be, some countries have natural competitive advantage in, in, in access to cheaper renewable resources, and thereby,
Making their hydrogen production costs lower.
and …”
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Fleece: Imported ammonia will be used directly rather than cracked to hydrogen
“I think, at the end of the day, what's going to happen is that ammonia is going to be sold into international markets for, as ammonia.”
Opinion
Fleece: Mandating both additionality and temporal correlation is overly stringent
“I think temporal correlation, in terms of absolute emissions abatement, I think temporal correlation or additionality or good principles, both together you know, that's a little bit, that is quite a bit stringent.”
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Fleece: Regulatory delays stalled announced European hydrogen projects before final investment decisions
“The issue was that everybody was waiting for that regulation. So everybody was waiting for the decarbonized gas package and the hydrogen package, as well as the delegated act, which specified these renewable rules. So lots of projects announced, very little pr…”
Insight
Fleece: One day of local storage makes green hydrogen projects viable
“I think hydrogen storage, local hydrogen storage, not necessarily huge salt caverns, but, you know, a day's buffer worth will be enough to make some of these export projects or many projects actually fly.”