Berlin. – The German Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association e. V. (DWV) criticizes the draft bill of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) on the implementation of the European Renewable Energy Directive (Renewable Energy Directive II, RED II). This “ignores the goals of the federal government and the EU and endangers hundreds of thousands of German jobs, the economic opportunities of a broad market launch of hydrogen and the achievement of climate goals in transport.”
With the draft, the BMU is blocking the development of the hydrogen economy and fuel cell technology, which should get a boost from the National Hydrogen Strategy (NWS) (we reported). Renewable electricity-based fuels and fuel cell vehicles were given “no chance” to contribute to achieving climate goals in transport, says the association. “With its proposals, the BMU is saying goodbye to the 2030 climate targets and the use of green hydrogen in transport” and is focusing “almost exclusively on battery-electric mobility.”
According to the interest group, it is essential to achieve the climate goals that the share of renewable fuels for non-battery-electric vehicles also increases significantly. But according to the BMU paper, this should even decrease in the coming years. “The draft therefore contradicts proposals from industry and business, which include a gradual, ambitious increase in greenhouse gas reductions in fuels and, in some cases, lower quotas for green hydrogen.”
The federal government is obliged under European law to achieve a share of renewable energies in transport of 2030 percent by 14. The BMU, however, only envisages a greenhouse gas reduction of 7,5 percent by 2026. Overall, the federal government's decision in the national hydrogen strategy to implement RED II and become the global technology market leader in hydrogen technologies and the draft law presented by the BMU are in direct contradiction, according to DWV board chairman Werner Diwald. The association demands that the BMU's draft bill be “immediately and fundamentally revised”. 126 institutions and companies with more than 1,5 million jobs are affiliated to the DWV.
The new Renewable Energy Directive (RED II, 2018/2001) came into force on December 24, 2018, is to be implemented into national law by June 30, 2021 and will help increase the share of renewable energies in the electricity and heat sectors and increase transport to at least 2030 percent of the Union's gross final consumption by 32. In the transport sector, the share of renewable energies is expected to increase to 14 percent.
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The DWV accuses the Federal Environment Ministry of lagging behind the EU's RED II / © European Union
