From Hydrogen Manifesto, through Green Deal and Just Transition, to Clean Energy Act
Plamen Atanassov, Vito Di Noto, Stephen J. McPhail
Abstract
The Year 2020 charted a seminal change in the way we see hydrogen technology as the backbone of decarbonization of the economy. And this charter was taken by far most ambitiously by the countries of the European Union. Streaming from their Hydrogen Manifesto, the governments and businesses, political parties and NGOs all stood on the path that leads to the European Green Deal, which starts with the Recovery and Resilience Facility and continues through the Just Transition Platform. The European Commission was the first to declare the official “taxonomy” for hydrogen as “green”, “blue” and “gray” hydrogen. This article will introduce the vision: Fit for 55 as a goal of cutting CO2 emissions by 55% in less than a decade and will touch on some of the regulatory and financial instruments to reach it. What year 2021 will bring is germinated in close to 300 running projects with the contributions from every corner of the European Union.