Hydrogen energy lawyers: legal insight from our hydrogen industry lawyers

With investment and development in hydrogen projects on the rise, we look at the key intellectual property considerations for protecting and commercialising innovations in hydrogen technology.

This short webinar focused on Creating a bankable hydrogen project. There are several criteria investors in the hydrogen sector will be looking at to reduce their investment risk and ensure a return.

We take a closer look at how bus fleets around the world are shifting to net zero emissions, through examining the UK Government policy driving the shift to zero emission buses, looking at how bus operators are progressing clean air initiatives in the UK and considering some notable examples of global decarbonisation initiatives in the bus sector.

As part of the UK’s efforts to accelerate the hydrogen economy, the UK government introduced the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund (NZHF) and the Hydrogen Business Model (HBM)

The UK’s new joint allocation round for electrolytic green hydrogen projects is the world’s first national clean-hydrogen subsidy scheme. It will use a contracts-for-difference-style revenue support mechanism to fund up to 1GW of low carbon hydrogen production projects by 2025.

Ireland’s legally binding ambitions for the delivery of climate action and achieving net-zero by 2050 are set out in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendments) Act 2021 (the “Climate Action Act”).

Europe’s dependence on imported natural gas from Russia has been put under the spotlight by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Given that gas imported from Russia accounts for around 40% of the EU’s gas imports, the EU has been under pressure in recent weeks to consider alternative energy sources.

World events recently have shown us the need to focus efforts on realising the Hydrogen potential. Hydrogen is key to the decarbonisation of the energy system and could, in a decade, power vehicles, generate electricity and provide long-term energy storage.

We sit down with Dr. Sam French from Johnson Matthey as we discuss the trajectory of the hydrogen market and the issues associated with developing the supply chains for the hydrogen economy and Johnson Matthey's experience as both components and systems supplier for hydrogen production technologies and fuel cells.

The "Polish #HydrogenStrategy until 2030 with an outlook until 2040" is part of a global, European and national activities aimed at building a low-carbon economy. This will play a key role in the Polish energy transformation.

In this episode, Kate Orchard of Baringa Partners shares her thoughts on the UK Hydrogen Strategy business models and standards with Jubilee Easo, Partner and Head of International Oil and Gas at Eversheds Sutherland.

In this episode, we sit down with Keith McGrane of Corre Energy to discuss some of the key issues in developing grid-scale hydrogen-based renewable energy storage projects.

The UK Government has published the much-anticipated Hydrogen Strategy.

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Hydrogen has quickly become an element capable of changing the economic situation. (In Spanish with English subtitles).

On 14 July 2021, the UK Government published its plan to decarbonise the entire transport system entitled “Decarbonising transport: a better, greener Britain” (the “Plan”).

Dr. Martin Weitenberg & Dr. Philipp Büsch discuss the recent amendments to the EEG/EEV and EnWG.

Ryan Gawrych, Principal Associate in our Hydrogen Energy team, speaks to Politico about what we’re expecting from the forthcoming strategy paper.

In this article we discuss decarbonising rail freight transportation and explore how the rail freight sector can invest in renewable power solutions.

Jubilee Easo, our International Head of Oil and Gas moderates a panel session around harmonising hydrogen standards and regulations, discussing how can we accelerate policy development and implementation.

In this article we discuss the UK Government’s ambition to remove all diesel-only trains from the UK rail network by 2040.

In this episode, Damien Hawke of Cadent discusses some of the technical, operational, and safety issues that need to be taken into consideration when blending hydrogen into the gas grid.

From green to yellow hydrogen, we reveal the rainbow of hydrogen colours and the different types of technology used to produce each. Here’s our guide to unlocking the evolving hydrogen colour code.

In this article we discuss the Italian governments aim to invest approximately €10 billion in the hydrogen sector by 2030.

In this article we discuss the Scottish Government’s hydrogen policy which outlines just how much of a key role the production and use of hydrogen will play in achieving Scotland’s ambitious.

In this article we discuss the UK Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy and the overall priorities for decarbonising UK industry and developing low carbon industrial clusters.

In this article published by Law360, we discuss the regulatory frameworks that hydrogen producers and suppliers need to take advantage of in the US.

In this episode, Dr Angela Needle of Cadent joins us to discuss the complexities and challenges of transitioning to a low carbon gas network using hydrogen.

In this article we examine the prospect of hydrogen being a renewable, low-carbon transportation fuel alternative due to the significant interest both in the United States and abroad, under the incoming Biden Administration

As Congress moves rapidly towards passing the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020 (Extenders Bill) as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, we summarise the key highlights of the Extenders Bill.

In this article we examine key aspects of the Scottish Policy Statement as Scotland aims to transition to net zero by 2045.

In this article we look at Finland aims for carbon neutrality by 2035 and carbon negativity by 2050.

In this article we look at the framework to make offshore renewable energy a core component of Europe’s energy system by 2050 set out by the European Commission.

Eversheds Sutherland Partner Amish Shah is quoted in this article by Energywire discussing the future of carbon capture sequestration (CCS) under a new administration as it is one of the areas with bipartisan support.

With the recent release by the Internal Revenue Service of substantial new section 45Q guidance, our report provides an overview of how this tax incentive can support investments in future CCS projects in the United States.

With the June 2020 release of the German National Hydrogen Strategy, this article examines the key aspects of the new strategy for developing a German hydrogen economy.

In this client briefing we examine the recently released French national hydrogen strategy and its three strategic priorities for creating an electrolysis sector, increasing use of FCEVs and supporting research and development.

In this article we look at the potential grid structure scenarios that arise out of the German government's consultation paper on regulating future hydrogen infrastructure.

As the steel industry looks to decarbonise we explore the key features of the German government action plan to stimulate markets for carbon-neutral steel using green hydrogen.

As France looks to stimulate the market for energy transition technologies we look at the recent proposals for the widespread deployment of hydrogen.

In this article we explore whether hydrogen provides the a step-change in the pursuit of low-carbon rail services.

In our first episode, our partners and Cornelius Matthes of Dii Desert Energy discuss why hydrogen is so topical and the ways in which European policy developments are setting out the foundations for a hydrogen economy.

In this article we give an overview of the EU hydrogen roadmap and the key targets, priorities and proposed investment agenda for using hydrogen to meet decarbonisation goals by 2050.