Why Hydrogen in Italy?

Italy has strong potential to develop a domestic green hydrogen industry given its extensive existing renewable energy assets and a modern country-wide gas transport network. A transition to clean hydrogen on the path to net zero would capture more of the energy value chain than in the current market for heat and mobility, which is dominated by fossil fuel imports.

Offshore wind and floating wind specifically could provide Italy with much of the future power to produce the clean hydrogen and equally Italy is well located as a transit country with existing pipelines connecting Sicily with Tunisia. As well as being able to further supply Germany industrial heartlands of the Ruhr valley.  

Early indications suggest that hydrogen could represents upwards of 25% of Italy’s energy usage by FED (Final Energy Demand) in 2050 depending on how the usage case scenarios develop.