Energy Industry Act
FNB Gas on the cabinet decision for the EnWG amendment to implement the EU gas package
On March 25, the Federal Cabinet passed the amendment to the Energy Industry Act to implement the EU hydrogen and internal gas market package and forwarded it to the German Bundestag for parliamentary consultation.
What lasts a long time does not automatically turn out well.We had hoped that the implementation of the EU gas market package would give a real boost to the development of the hydrogen market.Key aspects that are essential for the ramp-up of hydrogen are still missing.
Barbara Fischer, Managing Director FNB Gas
In particular, the following is still missing:
- a sufficiently clear political and regulatory commitment to hydrogen that provides investors with certainty and does not impose sector-specific or other restrictions on the use of hydrogen,
- more flexibility in the implementation and further development of the measures of the hydrogen core network so that technical adjustments and market developments can be taken into account,
- an adjustment of the financing conditions for the hydrogen core network, in particular to reduce risks for the network operators and to ensure capital market viability,
- suitable financing instruments for infrastructure beyond the core grid, particularly at distribution grid level and also at transport level (“core grid plus”), for example through intertemporal cost equalization or financial transfers,
- Consistent and integrated network development planning for gas and hydrogen that sensibly interlinks the various planning levels – European, national and regional.
It is now the responsibility of the Bundestag and the federal states to release the brakes and turn this cabinet decision into a genuine enabling act for the transformation of the gas grids – and thus pave the way for hydrogen at the distribution grid level too.”
Barbara Fischer, Managing Director FNB Gas
