France’s Hydrogen Pipeline With Spain Is at Risk Over Green Rules
- Paris pushes to classify nuclear-produced hydrogen as ‘green’
- Debate on hydrogen production methods weighs on BarMar plan
Pipelines at a hydrogen plant.
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A spat over defining “green hydrogen” may jeopardize a flagship project to pump hydrogen from Barcelona to Marseille and then onto Berlin via pipeline.
After a recent victory in Brussels for renewable hydrogen made in countries with a low-carbon energy mix, France will keep pushing for nuclear energy to be considered a clean source of hydrogen in ongoing negotiations about the European Union’s green targets, according to officials at the French energy transition ministry.