Energy
Analysis: Hydrogen strategy puts to bed Gas Networks Ireland’s Vision 2050 ambitions
Gas Networks Ireland’s 2019 plan to ‘decarbonise’ the gas grid appears dead in the water, but it will still play a central role in hydrogen delivery
The government’s hydrogen strategy was initially due to be published in 2021. Two years later, it has finally arrived.
It is not short on ambition, providing a blueprint for how green hydrogen can be produced through excess renewable energy, and then transported and deployed most efficiently in key sectors across the Irish economy out to 2050.
The strategy is realistic on when hydrogen will be available at any kind of scale, due to the need ...
