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Hy2gen green hydrogen plant RFNBO certified as 5MW expansion looms
16 May 2025The French government has opened a consultation on its transposition of the EU’s updated Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) into French law, proposing a national target for green hydrogen and its derivatives to make up 1.5% of transport fuel by 2030, as well as strict penalties for non-compliance.
This is more aggressive than RED III, which only requires 1% of all transport fuels — including road, rail, shipping and aviation — to be a “renewable fuel of non-biological origin” (RFNBO), ie, green H2 and its derivatives, by that year.
The French government says it is setting a slightly higher target in a bid to comply with RED III’s overall goal for a 14.5% reduction in the carbon intensity of European transport by the end of the decade.

