Turkey outlines hydrogen plans

The government prioritises replacing imported gas in the domestic energy system in a broad, heavily backloaded strategy

Ankara published its long-promised hydrogen strategy in late January, outlining in broad terms the fuel’s envisioned place in the domestic energy mix over the next three decades and the policies required to put it there. Ambitious long-term targets are set for scaling up capacity and reducing the cost of green hydrogen. Yet the plans are short on specifics, heavily backloaded—the main advances coming well into the 2030s and beyond—and implicitly confirm that hydrogen development will be a relatively low priority within the country’s complex energy policymaking rubric in the near term. Turkish energy policy is and will remain driven above all by the need to ensure security of supply given a p