France Criticizes ‘Hydrogen Ready’ Plans for Gas Power Plants
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France expressed doubts about proposals to keep building natural gas infrastructure such as power plants on the assumption that the fossil fuel will eventually be replaced with hydrogen.
“A strategy which consists in replacing the word ‘gas’ by ‘hydrogen-ready’ seems fragile to us,” French Energy Transition Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said on Monday. She didn’t criticize any particular country, but within Europe Germany is the main proponent of this approach.