The National Hydrogen Strategy and the Action Plan for the implementation of this 2023-2030 strategy are two important documents that were developed by the Ministry of Energy, announced the Energy minister, Virgil Popescu, on his Facebook page.
The minister’s announcement comes after the Ministry launched in public debate the first version of the National Hydrogen Strategy and the Action Plan for its implementation.
“The Strategy and the Action Plan can be consulted and the suggestions can be included in the final form,” said Popescu, according to Agerpres.
According to the cited source, the national hydrogen strategy combines short-term actions with long-term action directions in order to eliminate legislative barriers and support critical investments in the production and consumption chain in order to achieve national objectives in the field of decarbonization, in line with the increasing importance great that this resource has at the level of the European Union in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“It is an important step that we are taking for the future of energy. I would like to remind you that the legislative proposal on the integration of hydrogen from renewable sources and with low carbon emissions in the industry and transport sectors, which I initiated with my colleague, deputy Oana Marciana Ozmen, and other fellow parliamentarians, was adopted last week by fellow senators,” Popescu added.
The National Hydrogen Strategy and the 2023-2030 Action Plan were developed considering the major importance in national development of the introduction of hydrogen as an energy vector, as well as its strategic relevance in the current European context of decarbonization.
Hydrogen is also mentioned in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), approved by the European Commission in the second part of 2021, the document states.
The development of a hydrogen strategy with a related action plan is supported by Reform 4, Component 6 – Energy. This aims to develop a regulatory framework dedicated to the technologies of the future, in particular for hydrogen and storage solutions, in the perspective of realizing projects compatible with the “Do no significant harm” principle.