The European Clean Hydrogen Alliance has published its “Roadmap on hydrogen standardisation”. Setting European standards in this area supports EU ambitions for a climate-neutral carbon economy and the uptake of hydrogen in the European market.

The roadmap provides a comprehensive overview of standardization gaps, challenges and needs identified by Alliance members. These gaps continue to be a significant barrier to the deployment of hydrogen technologies, applications, and investments. The roadmap covers standardization needs for the entire hydrogen value chain, from production, distribution, transport, and storage to end applications.

In line with the standardization strategy, the roadmap also includes a set of recommendations aimed at streamlining and accelerating the process of defining European standards. It will feed into the work of the Commission and national and European standardization bodies. In particular, it will allow the Commission to prepare a standardization mandate on the identified hydrogen standards for European standardization organisations.

The roadmap also reflects the priorities identified in the annual work program for standardization for 2023 and also follows up on the 2021 report of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance, in which the absence of standards relating to hydrogen constitutes a significant obstacle to the deployment of new solutions for hydrogen.

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