Germany Seeks Delays to EU Hydrogen Rules That Stiffle Market
- German Economy Minister Habeck writes to EU Energy Commission
- EU is betting on hydrogen as key future source of green energy
Pipework at a hydrogen plant in Leuna, Germany.
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Germany has urged the European Union to delay some rules on renewable hydrogen that boost costs for producers and hinder a sector that the bloc views as crucial to meeting its ambitious climate neutrality goal.
In a letter this week to EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck called for a seven-year delay of the temporal correlation criteria that requires evidence of a match between renewables output on the grid and hydrogen production.