Policy

Elections, ambitions, delays and obscurity. Those are the words that spring to mind when thinking about the global hydrogen policy developments in 2024.

Germany has scrapped its €350m ($368m) plans for an EU-style renewable hydrogen auction 12 months after announcing the scheme, according to reports.

Bureaucratic delays have stalled the UK’s hydrogen progress, putting supply chains at risk and jeopardising critical goals.

India’s second green hydrogen auction has received 14 bids to receive government funding for a combined 626,500 tonnes per year, despite being capped at 450,000.

The report claims introducing new regulations for hydrogen production in industry would create an “exceedingly complex administrative challenge,” and that “maintaining the current regulatory landscape is a sound strategy.”

The UK Government has committed today (December 9) to deliver a support mechanism for hydrogen’s use in power generation and an associated business model to spur private investment.

Grid delays in the Dutch e-charge network make hydrogen mobility “inevitable,” says Fountain Fuel, which has secured €8.2m ($8.7m) government grant under the €28m ($29.6m) Hydrogen in Mobility programme.

Belgium and Oman have agreed to “further strengthen” collaboration in green hydrogen as part of a new agreement.

Project developers will now have until February 20, 2025, to bid for the subsidies, which come with a ceiling price of €4/kg ($4.21/kg) of green hydrogen.

Baroness Brown of Cambridge has warned that the “hydrogen bubble has burst,” and that it will take time for the industry and government to “regain confidence and take the subject seriously again.”