After billions in funding, Europe’s clean hydrogen ambitions now need to translate into tangible results through regulatory implementation, prioritised use cases, streamlined permitting, and increased electricity market flexibility.

That is the message from the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) in its 2025 monitoring report, where it said, despite a doubling of electrolyser installations to 308MW in 2024, deployments remained “way behind” 2030 targets.

It came a year after ACER’s damning report on the EU hydrogen sector, where it warned the bloc faced falling significantly short of its 2030 targets.

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