Activities of Thierry MARIANI related to 2020/2242(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on a European Strategy for Hydrogen
Amendments (20)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the EU has endorsed the Paris Agreement, the Green Deal andset itself the goal of achieving a cost-efficient and fair energy transition leading to ambitious climate neutrality by 2050outcomes;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the transition to a net-zero greenhouse gas economy requires a cleanachievement of the EU’s climate goal requires a well-thought-out energy transition that ensures sustainability, security of supply and affordability of energy;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the terminology outlined in the Commission strategy is incomplete, since it excludes certain sources of energy that can be used to produce clean hydrogen;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the need to maintain and further develop European technological leadership in clearenewable and low-carbon13 hydrogen through a competitive and sustainable hydrogen economy with an integrated hydrogen market; emphasises the necessity of a European hydrogen strategy that covers the whole hydrogen value chain, including the demand and supply sectors, and is coordinated with national efforts to bring down the costs of crenewable an hydrogen; welcomes, therefore, the hydrogen strategy for a climate-neutral Europe proposed by the Commission; _________________ 13 According tod low-carbon hydrogen; asks the Commission to take due account of the different national strategies on hydrogen and the investment plans adopted by the Member States in future legislative proposals for the sector; _________________ 13 Definitions supplied by the Commission, ʻclean – ‘Renewable hydrogenʼ refers to hydrogen produced through electrolysis of water with electricity from renewable sources. It may also be produced through reforming of biogas or biochemical conversion of biomass, if in compliance with sustainability requirements. ‘Low- carbon hydrogen’ refers to hydrogen produced through electrolysis of water (in an electrolyser powered by electricity) regardless of the origin of the electricity and fossil-based hydrogen with carbon capture. The quantity of greenhouse gas emissions produced over the entire lifecycle is significantly reduced in relation to existing hydrogen production.
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that clean hydrogen must include both renewable hydrogen and low-carbon hydrogen, and stresses the need to propose more inclusive and technologically neutral definitions with a view to meeting environmental goals involving a reduction in CO2;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that the ‘e importance of energy efficiency first’ principle prevails and that direct electrification, where possible, is the preferablerepresents an important option for decarbonisation asif it is more cost- and energy-efficient than the use of clean hydrogen; however, it will be vital to adopt a technologically neutral approach with a view to achieving the decarbonisation goals on the basis of cost- effective and energy-efficient options;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is convinced that only clean hydrogen is sustainablyrenewable hydrogen and low-carbon hydrogen can contributinge to achieving climate neutrality in the long term; asks the Commission to set a quantitatively specific and economically sustainable goal for renewable and low-carbon hydrogen in order to establish its viability for European stakeholders in the hydrogen sector and end users;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that a commonprecise and non- arbitrary legal classification of the different types of hydrogen is of utmost importance; welcomes in part the classification proposed by the Commission; notes that avoiding two names for the same category, such as ʻrenewableʼ and ʻincluding both renewable hydrogen and low-carbon hydrogen under the category of ‘cleanʼ’ hydrogen, could further clarify that classification;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the urgent need for a European standards, certification and labelling systems for cleaterminology and certification systems for renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and guarantees of origin for renewable electricity; believes that crenewable and low-carbon hydrogen should be determined according to an independent, science-based review of its lifecycle GHG emissions; calls on the Commission to provide a regulatory framework as early as possible in 2021;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission’s ambitious goals of increasing the capacity of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen electrolysers and hydrogen production; urges the Commission and the Member States to incentivise the value chain and market uptake of clean hydrogen in order to make it technologically mature and competitive with fossil-based and low-carbon hydrogen14; _________________ 14According to the Commission, ʻlow- carbon hydrogenʼ encompasses fossil- based hydrogen with carbon capture and electricity-based hydrogen, with significantly reduced full life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions compared to ex; stresses that carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) is a sustainable and efficient solution for the decarbonisating hydrogen production.on process;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that, in order to build up a sustainable hydrogen economy fast enough to reach our climate goals, low-carbon hydrogen can play a transitional role; calls on the Commission to assess for how long and how much of this hydrogen would be needed approximately for decarbonisation purposes until solely clean hydrogen can play this rolekey role in the diversification and massification of hydrogen and in the reduction of production costs; calls on the Commission to consider European energy models based on electricity mixes that are already heavily decarbonised;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines that a clean hydrogen economy requires significant additional amounts of affordable renewable and low- carbon energy and the corresponding transport and storage infrastructure; calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up their efforts in this regard and to abolishreduce taxes and levies on renewable and low-carbon electricity;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission to introduce an energy infrastructure category for hydrogen networks in Annex 2 to the TEN-E Regulation;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to assess the possibility of a blend of hydrogen and, at the same time, repurposing existing gas pipelinesinfrastructure for the transport of pureand storage of hydrogen in order to maximise cost efficiency and minimise investment costs and levelised costs of transmission; considers that the possibility of a basic hydrogen network, using modernised existing gas pipelines, should be looked at;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights that, in order to achieve a fast market uptake of clean hydrogen and to avoid carbon lock-insrenewable and low- carbon hydrogen, demand for clean hydrogen must increase; acknowledges that the initial focus of demand for renewable and low-carbon hydrogen demand should be on sectors for which the use of hydrogen is close to competitive or that currently cannot be decarbonised by other means; believes that for these sectors roadmaps for demand development, investment and research needs should be established at European level; agrees withnotes the suggestion by the Commission that demand-side policies such as quotas for the use of crenewable and low-carbon hydrogen in specific sectors and carbon contracts for difference (ʻCCfDʼ) are necessarycan help to promote decarbonisation through clearenewable and low-carbon hydrogen;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights that, in order to achieve a fast market uptake of clean hydrogen and to avoid carbon lock-ins, demand for clean hydrogen must increase; acknowledges that the initial focus of hydrogen demand should be on sectors for which the use of hydrogen is close to competitive or that currently cannot be decarbonised by other means; believes that for these sectors roadmaps for demand development, investment and research needs should be established at European level; agrees with the Commission that demand-side policies such as quotas for the use of clean hydrogen in specific sectors and carbon contracts for difference (ʻCCfDʼ) are necessary to promote decarbonisation through clean hydrogen;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines that significant amounts of investment are needed to make clearenewable and low-carbon hydrogen competitive, and that European programmes and financing instruments such as Horizon Europe, the Connecting Europe Facility, InvestEUon the basis of the TEN-E and TEN-T Regulations, InvestEU, the Just Transition Fund and the ETS Innovation Fund have a key role in fostering a crenewable and low-carbon hydrogen economy and the development of carbon capture and storage infrastructure compatible with hydrogen; deeply deplores the Council’s cuts affecting these instruments; calls on the Commission to develop a coordinated investment strategy for clean hydrogen;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Welcomes the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance and the Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs) as important means to enhance investment in clean hydrogen; regrets the delays in implementing the work of the Alliance’s round tables and urges the Commission to speed up the process; calls on the Commission to ensure that truly European stakeholders and projects are represented within the Alliance’s governance structure in a transparent and coherent manner; encourages the Alliance to come up with an investment agenda and a project pipeline that can ensure the implementation of the hydrogen goals set by the Commission as soon as possible; welcomes the Commission’s plan to revise the State aid guidelines to include clean hydrogen; calls for a pragmatic approach to facilitate the approval of projects that are essential in creating a European applied research strand in the area of hydrogen;
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Believes that the importing of cHighlights the fact that Europe’s leading role in the creation of renewable an hydrogen may become necessary to cater to European demandd low-carbon hydrogen technologies offers the opportunity to confirm European industrial autonomy and leadership and innovation worldwide; calls on the Commission to establish mutually beneficial cooperation with neighbouring regions as required;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Underlines the need for an integrated energy system in order to achieve climate neutrality by 2050; believes that the integration of the electricity, gas and hydrogen grid is beneficial for a well-functioning hydrogen and energy market; welcomes the inclusion of hydrogen in the Commission’s Strategy for Energy System Integration; believes that clean, renewable and low-carbon hydrogen can play a key role in terms of energy storage to balance intermittent renewable energy supply and demand;