The EU Decarbonised Gas and Hydrogen Package: Do the New Rules for European Gas Network Decarbonisation Ensure Flexibility and Security of Supply?
Article from: OGEL 3 (2024), in Hydrogen
Introduction
On 11 April 2024 the European Parliament adopted the Renewable and Natural Gases and Hydrogen (RNGH) Directive and the RNGH Regulation - otherwise known as the Decarbonized Gas and Hydrogen Package. This paper seeks to understand the impact of this regulatory framework, which is aimed primarily at the development and operation of hydrogen networks, on the existing natural gas networks (200,000 km of transmission and over 2,000,000 km of distribution pipelines) and the emerging hydrogen networks (at present, total length of hydrogen pipelines is only ~2,000 km - mostly privately ...