MEP committee votes to reject objection to RFNBO delegated act

Gary Hornby

29-Mar-2023

LONDON(ICIS)–The European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) voted on 28 March to reject the motion to object the rules defining renewable hydrogen and renewable fuels of non-biological origin (RFNBO) as published in the European Commission’s delegated act on February 13 2023.

The decision indicates that the delegated act will now progress to parliamentary level for final discussion and voting, but gives market participants an understanding that the act may soon finalised.

The committee vote on the motion to object the delegated act for RFNBO occurred 28 March and was counted with 41 votes against, 22 votes in favour, and 4 abstentions.

The rules for RFNBO have been considered the rules for producing renewable hydrogen, and apply to hydrogen produced within and outside of the EU. However, the specification of the act is to outline the conditions for hydrogen being used in transport should participants wish to claim that hydrogen as part of the targets set out in the Renewable Energy Directive recast (RED II).

RED II currently indicates that 14% of final energy consumption in the transport sector should be renewable by 2030. This places large focus on RFNBO in order to meet this target.

The changes that were put forward earlier this month were to allow for the setting up of conditions that would lead to responsible investment, with the priority areas that are difficult to decarbonise such as air travel and electrification.

The delegated act regulations surrounds rules for counting electricity obtained from direct connection to an installation generating renewable electricity as fully renewable, general rules for counting electricity taken from the grid as fully renewable, and rules on additionality, temporal correlation and geographical correlation.

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