Executive Summary

Hydrogen has been identified as a core part of various jurisdictions' decarbonisation agendas. This article critically analyses and compares the regulatory and policy tools which the US and the EU have adopted or plan to adopt in order to create their hydrogen economies. Through an instrumentalist lens, it examines the manner in which the policy approaches converge and differ, as well as areas where there is a lack of clarity, setting out the issues that the US and EU will need to grapple with moving forward. One of the outcomes seen is a convergence between the two approaches regarding ...