The Czech Republic's Hydrogen Strategy

The Czech Republic’s Hydrogen Strategy is being developed in the context of the Hydrogen Strategy for a climate neutral Europe, which reflects the European Green Deal objective of climate neutrality by 2050. The objective of the Strategy is thus to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in such a way that the economy shifts smoothly to low-carbon technologies.
This is associated with two strategic goals:

• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
• Stimulate the economic growth

To achieve these, four specific goals have been set:

• Volume of low-carbon hydrogen production
• Volume of low-carbon hydrogen consumption
• Infrastructure readiness for hydrogen transport and storage
• Progress in R&D and production of hydrogen technologies

The Hydrogen Strategy is based on four pillars:

• Low-carbon hydrogen production
• Low-carbon hydrogen use
• Hydrogen transport and storage
• Hydrogen technologies

These pillars are interlinked – production and consumption must be well-balanced to achieve economic use of the respective technologies, otherwise any imbalance will be offset by imports from abroad. Each of the pillars is linked to exactly one strategic goal.