Renewable and low-carbon gases are expected to play a key role, alongside other technology and policy options, towards achieving climate neutrality along the goals set forth by the European Green Deal and the interim goals for 2030 expressed by the Fit-for-55 Package.
The European Union (EU) strategy on hydrogen, adopted in 2020, put forward a vision for the creation of a European hydrogen ecosystem, in line with the European Green Deal. The REPowerEU plan, established by the European Commission (EC) as a reaction to the Russian invasion into Ukraine, further emphasised the important role of hydrogen and biomethane not only for the energy transition but also to reduce dependency on Russian natural gas imports. Achieving the REPowerEU targets by 2030 and a fully decarbonised European energy system at the latest by 2050 is ambitious.
It will require a rapid scale-up of renewable and low-carbon electricity generation, deployment of domestic hydrogen and biomethane production capacities, hydrogen storage and import infrastructure as well as a pan-European hydrogen transmission network (pan-European Hâ‚‚ network).
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