Dutch demand doubts threaten hub potential
IEA urges Netherlands to give clean hydrogen investors greater certainty over industrial consumption
Uncertainty over the growth of industrial demand threatens to undermine the Netherlands’ potential as a key European hydrogen hub, the IEA has said. The Dutch government should work to reduce the risk for investors by introducing quotas for industrial use of clean hydrogen and cross-sectoral industrial decarbonisation strategies to address the demand issue, which continues to prevent many supply projects from progressing to FID, the agency said. “While demand for low‑emission hydrogen is potentially large, not only to meet domestic needs but also to export to other markets, investors want more certainty, and FIDs for electrolyser projects are lagging,” the IEA said in its latest review of th
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