Uncommon Common sense shown
LEAK: France wins recognition for nuclear in EU’s green hydrogen rulesAfter months of hesitation, the Commission finally took a decision and set out two important criteria:By 2030, hydrogen production must be matched to renewable energy production on an hourly basis. Until then, the correlation is set on a monthly basis.By 2028, hydrogen producers must prove that their electrolysers are connected to renewable energy installations no older than 36 months.With those criteria, Europe’s hydrogen industry is now relieved.
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France scored a major victory.For months, French politicians have lobbied Brussels to hammer the point that green hydrogen should also come from low-carbon nuclear electricity, not just renewables.“There is a real risk today that the discussions in Brussels will lead to the imposition of very high targets of renewable hydrogen for industry […] without taking into account the share of hydrogen that can be produced from electricity of nuclear origin,” said French energy minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher.According to her, this means a country like France risked being prevented from using its carbon-free electricity to produce hydrogen.“It obviously doesn’t make sense, it’s absurd and it’s above all contrary to our European decarbonisation objectives,” she told a small group of journalists last week.That risk now appears to be eliminated. Under the rules adopted Friday, countries with a low-carbon electricity mix will be exempt from the additionality rule provided they invest in new renewable energy generation capacity for “an amount that is at least equivalent to the amount of electricity that is claimed as fully renewable”. "
https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/leak-france-wins-recognition-for-nuclear-in-eus-green-hydrogen-rules/It is very interesting to see that anti nuclear Germany is now showing "Wide public support for keeping German reactors online, say polls08 August 2022 ShareA majority of the German public are in favour of the continued operation of the country's three remaining nuclear power reactors beyond the end of this year, the results of two opinion polls show. There is significant support for keeping the units running for up to another five years and even to construct new reactors in order to secure energy supplies."
LinkHappily, Germany got a 'Get of of Jail free card' with the mild winter not over staining the strained power supplies and prices!
Mean while the Russian question is still running hot of course "
European Parliament calls for Russia sanctions to include nuclear
03 February 2023
The European Parliament has urged European Union (EU) leaders to extend the sanctions introduced as a result of the war with Ukraine to include nuclear energy."
The ongoing US imports of Russian enriched fuel will be a hard to swallow topic in the US.
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