Hydrogen is required for about 25-35% of the energy system. Doesn't matter where you go.
21.02.2026 08:56
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Hydrogen is required for about 25-35% of the energy system. Doesn't matter where you go.
HDF (Hydrogène de France - not related to EDF) are already a global presence, with major infrastructure projects worldwide
www.hdf-energy.com/en/worldwide...
The first item on the EDF (Électricité de France) search results within their listing is hydrogen - EDF being the largest electric utility in the world by sales revenue
www.edf.fr/en/the-edf-g...
'The results will support the development of larger-scale green hydrogen production projects and assess the feasibility of adapting existing gas turbines for co-combustion.'
Hydrogen requires infrastructure to enable cost reduction; €240bn in planned H2 infrastructure spending within the EU to 2040
There are two energy vectors: electricity and hydrogen.
See the energy system operators, who operate the entire EU energy system ↓
2024.entsos-tyndp-scenarios.eu
That flexibility will be #electrolysis, once hydrogen grids are built.
Siloising the electricity and hydrogen sectors makes no sense
Some people.
Wrong again.
Airbus are pretending about the plane they are making, and battery powered aviation is perfectly realistic?
Nope
You respect Michael Barnard's opinion over all EU economic planning?
Micheal Barnard (Liebreich, Rosenow etc) are strategically misinforming to maintain the heavily subsidised fossil status quo.
Any fuel with added carbon or nitrogen is a health hazard. Hydrogen is the ONLY zero emissions fuel the fully takes on the fossil fuel industry
Hydrogen is the way forward for 50% of oil demand. Liquid hydrogen for aircraft - not batteries as Micheal Barnard promotes
2024.entsos-tyndp-scenarios.eu
The EU and the TSOs who plan, implement and operate the energy system in the EU are irrefutably, incontrovertibly committed to replacing a quarter to a third of the energy system with hydrogen
Yet these lobbyists only work - out of ideology - to block this progress, and backwardise the UK
When these individuals; and larger groups and organisations (Octopus, Ember, or various others) are so obviously pitted against hydrogen, it is impossible to escape the ideological politicisation of the energy transition; and ultimately their resignation to ineffective and cynical strategies..
The problem in my mind, but which I think you avoided successfully, is the politicisation of the various answers that exist. It's *selling* the energy transition; things, services, lifestyles
It's detractors like Jan Rosenow and Michael Liebreich who make a mockery of effective action; *politics*
Really enjoyed your debate with Betsy Reed. As always I fear this kind of 'uprising' of doom, from people who understand the threat, understand the potential answers, but do nothing of any substance to get back towards a commonality of collective hope or optimism
Pushing battery-powered aviation is not a swing toward progress, it's a desperate attempt to block the inevitable, seismic shift to hydrogen *in all sectors*
Who do you think you are lying to?
The TSOs (who plan and implement the energy system that provides things like electricity) have laid out what is happening, and the pipelines, production, storage is being built
Jan Rosenow is a charlatan and a fraud, deeply pitted against hydrogen and the hydrogen economy, despite explicit EU and UK ambitions to replace one quarter to one third of the energy system with hydrogen
His ideological conceit works to simply maintain the status quo, blocking effective policy
The other option is just wait for hydrogen and get a hydrogen-ready boiler, or wait for district heating. Again, powered by a fuel cell (initially biogas or natural gas, and then hydrogen when it's available), this provides constant power and heat. Ideal if there is a local district heating network
Home fuel cells for larger houses would be ideal. These feed back into the local grid like solar panels if this option is available; you produce your own electricity, and you make money by selling the excess
Japan have 150,000 home fuel cells; which do not require external electricity generation
Hydrogen is at the stage renewables were a few years ago, and as soon as infrastructure exists, that's it: industry hubs are all linked up to a dispatchable energy supply
