06 May EU Green Hydrogen Certification

Source: https://www.eceee.org/

The EU will determine the criteria for hydrogen to be considered Green or renewable. The certification criteria of biofuels will help to define these criteria. The need to break free from Russian fossil fuels is urgent and so is the need to transform the energy sector. The European Commission must produce the delegated act, mentioned in Article 27(3) of the REDII (Renewable Energy Directive).

The need for the definition of these criteria will affect the kind of hydrogen to be produced and imported, which will affect not only European producers but hydrogen producers all over the world.

Article 27 of REDII states three cases to consider hydrogen renewable. These cases are:

1. Considering a share of the hydrogen as renewable, equivalent to the average renewable electricity share of the grid in that country.
2. Using renewable electricity from new renewables installations supplied via a direct connection.
3. Sourcing renewable electricity from the grid, while proving that the renewable electricity is “additional” as well as temporally and geographically correlated with the hydrogen production.

The latter two cases will be defined in the delegated act.