The Connecting Europe Facility for Energy: Funding fiction, failing climate
July 15, 2025
The Clean Industrial Deal envisions an expansion of both hydrogen and carbon capture throughout the EU. The experts’ prevailing view is that hydrogen can only advance the energy transition in a few hard-to-abate sectors, and there are serious concerns over the very viability of carbon capture, especially at scale. Yet our latest analysis reveals that a little-known EU infrastructure fund has been handing out hundreds of millions to these dubious technologies.
Comments on the ‘Identification of hydrogen infrastructure needs for the TEN-E priority corridors’ methodology
March 13, 2025
A joint submission to the 2025 public consultations on the methodology underlying the needs assessment for key tranboundary energy projects.
Looking beyond the hype: Public funding of hydrogen in central and eastern Europe
October 31, 2024
This briefing analyses over-optimism about hydrogen’s role in the central and eastern European Member States – Hungary, Poland and Romania.
