Will Europe's Green Hydrogen Ambitions Be Trumped?

Will Europe’s Green Hydrogen Ambitions Be Trumped?

Clean hydrogen could help achieve Europe’s green goals. But the US is moving in the opposite direction.

CEPA.org | Maciej Bukowski | January 28, 2025

As President Donald Trump rushes to kill clean energy projects, the new European Commission is racing ahead to reach its ambitious green goals. It’s an opportunity for Europe to take the lead. A good test will be its plans to promote green hydrogen.

Upon moving into the White House, President Trump ended the Biden administration’s last-minute tax incentives for clean hydrogen investments. His series of executive orders repealed regulations aimed at promoting electric vehicles, opened vast areas of public land and federal waters for oil drilling and mining, and ordered the withdrawal of the US from the Paris Agreement on global warming.

China and Europe are sprinting in different directions on green policy. China is home to nearly two-thirds of all the world’s utility-scale solar and wind projects under construction – and it smashed its hydrogen 2025 production targets ahead of schedule. The European Commission is expected to unveil on February 26 its much-anticipated Clean Industrial Deal, a multi-year plan to boost the continent’s clean technology sectors.

Hydrogen will be key to European ambitions. In her recent speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen signaled that infrastructure – including upgraded natural gas pipes to carry hydrogen – will be at the heart of the energy plan. “Not only must we continue to diversify our energy supplies and expand clean sources of generation, [but] we must also mobilize more private capital to modernize our electricity grids and storage infrastructure,” she said. more
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