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War accelerates European hydrogen plans- By June the evaluation of the "White Dragon"
By euronews • 04/05/2022
https://gr.euronews.com/2022/04/05/o-polemos-epitaxynei-ta-europaika-sxedia-ydrogonou-white-dragon

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"Ecological throttle" for the energy de-dependence of Europe from natural gas characterized the "green hydrogen" the MEP of ND Manolis Kefalogiannis, speaking at an online event on "Western Macedonia - European hydrogen node - Energy crisis" organized by the region of Western Macedonia.

As Mr Kefalogiannis said, 'the 'Green Deal' was voted on by almost all sides of the European Parliament' and includes EUR 150 billion. the euro for Europe's just transition to a carbon-free economy.

He stressed that "due to the war in Ukraine, the energy map is changing", underlining that "we must be careful in our next moves", while he expressed his satisfaction with Greece's plan to develop hydrogen, saying that "we are on track and I am a strong supporter and supporter of the Greek government's initiative".

For his part, former MEP George Chatzimarkakis, managing director of Hydrogen Europe, said that "Putin's invasion of Ukraine is accelerating developments" regarding hydrogen, noting that with the approval of member states, the EU is proceeding with the immediate implementation of a plan recently presented in Paris, which foresees "the acceleration of the evaluations of the major European projects on the IPCEI list, which includes the 'White Dragon' of Western Macedonia, with a total budget of EUR 8 billion. euro, to be completed by next June."

The European Commission is also asking the European Parliament to proceed immediately to the completion of an institutional framework for the hydrogen market and its adoption, so that soon "we will have in our hands the first rules for its purchase, distribution, supply, marketing and use by households and businesses".

"The stakes we have in front of us", mr. Chatzimarkakis continued, is great, because "by 2030 we will have to produce through our infrastructure 20 million cubic meters of hydrogen, which means that we need energy for electrolytes a little over 300GW".

The Regional Governor of Western Macedonia, Giorgos Kasapidis, recalled the emblematic projects of the Region that are included in the plan of the "White Dragon" and which are: the production of hydrogen from the sludge of the biological cleaning of western Macedonia that is now buried, the conversion of the public veterinary clinic of the Regional Unit of Kozani into a "green building", with the creation of the first "hydrogen" for its energy needs, as well as the energy autonomy with hydrogen of a modern cheese factory in the region, which is intended to be converted into a cheese-making school.

Mr. Kasapidis noted that "some of the above actions could start immediately, but we have non-existence in the institutional framework around the use of hydrogen". He added that "we are also contributing on our part to the creation of the institutional framework, assessing international practices and the institutional experience of other countries that have advanced further than us".

Melissa Verikiou, deputy CEO of Hebio-Hydrogen, stressed that "foreign energy companies have turned their radars to Greece, are targeting energy developments wanting to invest in the country" and added that there must be "a broad political consensus on the hydrogen project, as well as support for the value chain that its use brings".

On his part, the Director of the Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Sciences of NCSR "Demokritos" Athanasios Stoumbos noted that hydrogen is "the biggest challenge to meet the energy needs of the country and that we have no choice but to respond positively, contributing with our work to the acceleration of developments".