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The Hydrogen Strategy presents a specific set of measures to create the conditions for 
hydrogen to contribute to decarbonising the economy in a cost-effective way and outlines 
phases to gradually scale up its production to ensure that from 2030 onwards and towards 
2050 renewable hydrogen technologies are capable of reaching maturity and can be 
deployed at large scale in hard-to-decarbonise sectors, where other alternatives might not 
be feasible or have higher costs.  
The Commission will implement these strategies through many actions. Let me mention 
the reviews of the Renewable Energy Directive, the Energy Efficiency Directive, the 
Energy Taxation Directive and the State aid framework, as some of the most relevant. 
The Commission will also consider the possibility to extend the European emission 
trading system to new sectors and review the internal gas market legislation. EU funding 
instruments will complement these actions also in the context of the COVID-19 
recovery.  
There is little doubt that the full decarbonisation of the building sector will require the 
mobilisation of all types of renewable and low-carbon energy sources, carriers and 
infrastructures. These may, in the long term, include hydrogen and other gases produced 
from renewable electricity where these are efficient, taking into account also other 
technologies, such as highly efficient heat pumps, that are already available and efficient 
for the decarbonisation of buildings.  
The Commission will address these issues in the relevant upcoming initiatives under the 
European Green Deal, and as announced in the Energy System Integration and Hydrogen 
Strategies.  
Your contribution to these initiatives will be valuable and I am looking forward to our 
continued and constructive dialogue. 
Yours sincerely, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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