Towards an EU Hydrogen Economy: Policy and Energy Security Perspectives

This paper aims to outline the role of hydrogen as a component in the decarbonization of the European natural gas sector in the context of an integrated energy system. [...] “light” gas The need to move towards “a liquid market with commodity-based hydrogen trading”, regulation” highlighted in the Strategy, echoes the broadly stated argument that trading within the internal gas market may provide the technical basis for hydrogen trading through, for instance, the virtualization of operations and the introduction of similar market integrity and transparency rules. [...] Overall, network operators may initiate the establishment of a hydrogen market to expedite delivery of the Green Deal and the European Recovery Plan (ENTSOG 2020), if this is in the public interest and does not distort the market. [...] COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS A hydrogen strategy for a climate-neutral Europe. [...] COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Powering a climate-neutral economy: An EU Strategy for Energy System Integration.