Civil society organisations call on Commissioner Jørgensen to implement more stringent rules for ‘blue hydrogen’ based on fossil gas

Undersigned organisations support the Commission’s strong support to scale up green hydrogen production for hard-to-abate sectors, both by means of financial support via European Hydrogen Bank auctions as well as finalising the regulatory framework.

As a coalition of civil society organisations, we want to highlight our concerns about the proposal that the previous Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson submitted for public consultation. Our concern in this letter focuses exclusively on how the proposed delegated act deals with so-called ‘blue hydrogen’, where steam methane reforming of fossil gas is combined with Carbon Capture and Storage.

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