Renewable Energies Directive: still no agreement in the Council

The meeting of EU ambassadors yesterday (Wednesday) has not produced an agreement on the adoption of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED). The Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper) will deal with the issue again next Friday.

The Swedish presidency presented the trilogue agreement reached with the European Parliament on Wednesday and the new recital circulated on Tuesday evening. This would allow ammonia plants to switch from gas to hydrogen, among other things, from nuclear energy, instead of using only renewable fuels as planned.

France had already secured some leeway in hydrogen production using nuclear energy for the industry but is calling for even more flexibility. In this way, Paris wants to facilitate the conversion of its gas-fired ammonia plants for the production of fertilizers.