NGOs, Producers Urge EU to Keep 2028 Hydrogen Review
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- Green NGOs and renewable fuel producers sent a joint letter urging the European Commission to resist pressure to reopen the rules governing renewable hydrogen.
- Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2359, the Low-Carbon fuel Delegated Act, entered into force in 2025, completing the EU hydrogen regulatory framework and providing regulatory certainty to producers, offtakers, and investors.
- Some industrial and political stakeholders are calling to bring forward the review of requirements on additionality, and temporal and geographical correlation, ahead of the 2028 deadline.
- The signatories are urging the Commission to refrain from reopening or accelerating the review of these requirements before 2028.
- The letter argues that weakening the hydrogen framework would threaten climate goals, grid stability, and the investment certainty needed to build a sustainable hydrogen market.
Why it matters: Green hydrogen producers and NGOs frame the 2028 review date as essential to preserving additionality rules — the provisions designed to prevent fossil-derived hydrogen from being relabeled green. Industrial stakeholders are pushing the Commission to reopen the framework sooner, putting the investment certainty the 2025 Delegated Act just established directly at stake.
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