Online Debate

Which Hydrogen Network for Europe?

FSR Debates

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Sep 18 2024

14:00 - 15:30 CEST

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This FSR Debates will discuss which hydrogen infrastructure vision is more likely to prevail in the period to 2030 and, more generally, what this implies for the development of the renewable/low carbon hydrogen sector.

Despite the fact that renewable and low-carbon hydrogen represents one of the pillars of the EU decarbonisation and system integration strategies, there is still significant uncertainty regarding how the sector will develop in the years to come and what this implies for the hydrogen transport infrastructure. In 2020 and again in 2022 the EU set goals for the production and import of renewable hydrogen. However, an agreed ‘target model’ for the nascent hydrogen sector is still to emerge. This might impact the development of the hydrogen transport infrastructure. Reference is often made to a ‘no-regrets’ network. But what would this be? This FSR Debate will compare two visions - one mostly based on ‘hydrogen valleys’, similar to the current setting of the sector, and another one bases on the development of a EU-wide hydrogen backbone network- and discuss how they could contribute to a ‘no-regrets’ approach to the hydrogen netwok and what this implies for the development of the renewable/low carbon hydrogen sector.