by Alessandro Clerici* and Samuele Furfari**
*Alessandro Clerici (Honorary Chair of WEC Italy and of the Federation of Italian Scientific & Technical Associations)
**Samuel Furfari (Professor of energy geopolitics at the Free University of Brussels and President of the European Society of engineers and industrialists)
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1. Introduction
The European Green Deal triggered a great surging interest on hydrogen uses as an energy carrier particularly the so-called green hydrogen i.e. produced by renewable energy. This increasing interest for hydrogen (H₂), particularly ‘green’ hydrogen, is not limited to the EU. Huge electrolysis plants powered by renewable energy sources (RES) are announced in Australia, Chile, China, the Middle East, and North America, even if a giga project in Australia (the Pilbara one) has not got very recently the authorisation to proceed from the central government due to the strong impacts on the environment.
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