European Steelmakers’ Association Eurofer has welcomed the European Commission’s launch July 8 of its Hydrogen Strategy for a Climate-Neutral Europe as the region’s steelmakers prepare to become significant potential users of hydrogen. The strategy sets out a plan to establish an integrated hydrogen network in Europe by 2050. However, “the European steel industry will need millions of tonnes of competitively priced hydrogen by 2050 to make its low-carbon transition as success,” Eurofer warns. Steelmaking is estimated to be responsible for about 9% of carbon emissions globally. The EC’s new hydrogen strategy aims to mobilize resources and actors to install at least 6 GW of renewable hydrogen electrolyzers in the EU by 2024, and 40 GW by 2030, as part […]