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A revolution for green hydrogen production?
6/3/2024
8 min read
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Biohydrogen could address the key challenges of the European hydrogen economy by enabling local, safe, efficient and cost-effective hydrogen production, according to Ángela Sainz Arnau, Communications Director at the European Biogas Association, which is participating in research to develop means for direct production of hydrogen from biogas.
The European Union’s (EU) aims to fully decarbonise its economy will require a complete overhaul of the energy system and its infrastructure by 2050. Since the announcement of the European Green Deal in 2019, a wide range of plans have been put forward to strengthen the region’s climate mitigation policies.
A decarbonised Europe will be jointly based on the production of renewable electricity and the deployment of green molecules to transport, store and supply all sectors with renewable energy at the lowest possible cost.
The plans to fully decarbonise the EU energy system, in conjunction with the current energy crisis, will change the demand for gas in the near future. Natural gas demand is expected to decrease to an estimated 271bn m3/y year by 2050, according to the Gas for Climate report.