Kirsten Westphal

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Dr Kirsten Westphal is Executive Director at H2Global Stiftung and leads the independent Analysis & Research Division.

Noé van Hulst

Jan 31 2023

How to kick-start the North-West European clean hydrogen market

Illuminem Voices

Green Hydrogen · Hydrogen

There is a growing global consensus that clean hydrogen is an indispensable vector in achieving net-zero emissions in 2050, an objective now set by close to all G20 countries and beyond. International organisations like IEA, IRENA and the EU project an increasing role for net-zero electricity in the next decades, but further electrification (now at roughly 20%) won’t cover much more than 60% of the total energy mix. This implies that ‘greening of the molecules’ (today mainly oil and gas) becomes very urgent.