Resilience baby! EU’s Hydrogen Week is riding the EU resilience wave, translating the seven hydrogen’s arches towards energy transition bliss, into seven arches of resilience through hydrogen. As this edition of Hydrogen Week 2025 was seeking to highlight “the importance of a hydrogen-based resilience strategy to an autonomous Europe”, the Sultanate of Oman as a partner of the event was featured to disclose its unlocking of vast desert real estate by 203,0 to produce 1,4 Mtpa of H2, from a renewable energy capacity of 35GW, used by 18GW of electrolysers, to supply the new H2 ports of Western Europe (Amsterdam, …….if…. according to Salim bin Nasser bin Said Al Aufi, Oman’s energy minister, the EU makes sure the Eu is not changing its renewable hydrogen definition, referring to the …. Delegated Act of the RED II if the European Parliament and Council do not object to its contents. Once approved, it will not need to be ‘adopted’ or transposed into the national laws of EU member states, as it will be directly applicable. The European Parliament is due to vote, ahead of a final deadline of 8 November,

Stallard said: “The act sets out what will and what will not be considered to be green hydrogen, providing a clear regulatory framework about how European green hydrogen production and consumption sectors can be built up. Firms, investors and regulators planning to develop green hydrogen or who want to use their renewable assets to develop green hydrogen should note and understand the new legislation.”

To qualify as ‘low carbon’ under the regulations, hydrogen must achieve at least a 70% reduction in GHG emissions compared to unabated fossil fuels. This threshold applies across the full life cycle of production, including upstream methane emissions and emissions from energy inputs. The methodology allows for a range of production pathways, including hydrogen made from natural gas with carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), and from low carbon electricity sources.

The Commission emphasised that the framework is designed to be both flexible and pragmatic, recognising the diversity of energy mixes across member states. It does not, however, define the share of renewable electricity that can be counted toward hydrogen production – a matter governed by the Renewable Energy Directive, which uses an annual average approach.

The delegated act is intended to provide a clear framework for developers which aims to accelerate the deployment of clean hydrogen technologies in hard to decarbonise sectors such as aviation, shipping and heavy industry.