Hydrogen policy

This consultation document sets out our preferred policy position on hydrogen production, storage, transportation, and use as part of the Welsh Government’s response to the climate and nature emergencies. These emergencies require us to rapidly, deeply and sustainably decarbonise our industries and energy supply, whilst supporting economic activity and employment, avoiding passing problems on to future generations, and ensuring a just transition for those citizens and business affected by the change.

Clarity on the Welsh Government’s position on hydrogen is required to ensure our economy and communities can benefit from hydrogen’s potential to be part of a decarbonised future.  

Some of the decisions that will impact the deployment of hydrogen in Wales will be determined on a national level by the UK Government. We will continue to engage with UK Government on its developing hydrogen policies, and wider stakeholders to ensure that they consider fully the needs of Wales. A clear Welsh Government policy statement on hydrogen is part of that process.  

Therefore, we are seeking the views of industry, the public and other stakeholders on our preferred policy position that supports hydrogen where:

• it makes a clear and sustainable contribution to decarbonisation.
• it helps builds a stronger, greener economy.
• its deployment does not unnecessarily prolong or increase the use of fossil fuels.

Subject to the outcome of this consultation, the policy position will initially be published as a written statement, followed by guidance for decision makers and developers.

In June 2023, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) published its progress report on reducing emissions in Wales. The CCC’s report made 58 recommendations for the Welsh Government, including a recommendation to assess the potential for large-scale hydrogen production in Wales, and to coordinate with the UK Government on how Wales can best contribute to UK-wide hydrogen plans. In its response to the CCC’s report, Welsh Government accepted the hydrogen recommendations, recognising hydrogen has a role in the decarbonisation of the Welsh Energy System, providing flexible electricity generation, and decarbonising industry and shipping.

In developing its understanding of hydrogen, Welsh Government has commissioned and published multiple reports and consultations:

• In 2020 the Welsh Government published a Hydrogen Pathway and Action Plan that benchmarked the Welsh hydrogen industry. And was published for public consultation in January to March 2021.
• Since 2021 Welsh Government has provided £2.8 million for hydrogen feasibility studies through the Hydrogen Business Research and Innovation for Decarbonisation (HyBRID) fund in 2021.
• A report on Carbon Capture outlined potential decarbonisations pathways utilising CCUS and hydrogen.
• The Future Energy Grids for Wales Report assessed the future energy scenarios for Wales to achieve net zero by 2050. The report identified that hydrogen is likely to be utilised in Wales to support the transition from the 2030s. It is most likely to be cost effective in meeting industry, heavy transport (e.g. shipping) and electricity generation demands. More uncertainty remains in its use elsewhere.
• Hydrogen features in Welsh Government plans, including the:
  •    2021 to 2025 net zero plan for Wales, which discusses possibilities for fuel switching to hydrogen across a variety of end uses.
  •    The Innovation strategy for Wales recognises hydrogen has a role in meeting our climate change targets 
  •    National Transport Delivery Plan (NTDP) for 2022 to 2027 considers possible hydrogen applications in the transport sector; and 
  •    Heat Strategy for Wales looks at hydrogen for industrial and domestic heating predominantly around industrial clusters. 

Following advice provided by the Climate Change Committee on 17 March 2021, the Senedd made regulations, collectively referred to as ‘the Climate Change (Wales) Regulations 2021’:

• The Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment of 2050 Emissions Target) Regulations 2021;
• The Climate Change (Interim Emissions Targets) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021;
• The Climate Change (Carbon Budgets) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021; and
• The Climate Change (Net Welsh Emissions Account Credit Limit) (Wales) Regulations 2021).

These regulations set challenging targets for emissions to be reduced by 63% by 2030, 89% by 2040 and at least 100% by 2050, based on 1990 levels. Industry and power generation accounts for more than half of current emissions in Wales, so decarbonising industry and power generation is critical to meeting these carbon budgets, and it must happen quickly.

In Net Zero Wales Carbon Budget 2 (2021 to 2025), the Welsh Government re-stated its commitment to a just transition in Wales, built on the Wellbeing for Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015. The Act aims to mitigate any unintended impacts and maximises the opportunities that decarbonisation provides to ensure both positive and negative effects are distributed fairly. This means as we move to a cleaner, stronger, fairer Wales, we will leave no-one behind.

It is equally important that we avoid “offshoring” emissions by driving industry overseas, as this will impact on our ability to build a greener economy in Wales and may result in industry moving to countries with lower environmental standards. We must find ways to urgently reduce emissions whilst retaining sustainable industry in Wales.

Welsh Government’s policy objective is to avoid the continued extraction and consumption of all fossil fuels. This is a core part of our Net Zero plans and has already been applied to many policy areas including our Coal extraction policy and Petroleum extraction, a timeline of statements and policies related to decarbonisation of energy is provided in Annex 1.

Energy policy for Wales, including when considering hydrogen, must therefore reflect three broad requirements:

1. We need a secure and affordable energy supply, and sustainable industry in Wales. The climate crisis and our current dependence on expensive, globally sourced fossil fuel supplies, underlines the importance of affordable, low carbon and clean energy that is generated in Wales.
    
2. The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 places a duty on Government and specified public bodies to carry out sustainable development. The Act requires specified public bodies (including the Welsh Ministers) to carry out sustainable development, which is the process of improving the economic, social, environmental and cultural well-being of Wales by taking action in accordance with the sustainable development principle. This means the Welsh Government must act in a way that seeks to ensure the needs of the present generation are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. 
   
   The Act sets seven well-being goals that the Welsh Ministers must seek to achieve. Achieving these goals will also contribute to the just transition towards Net Zero. The proposed hydrogen policy will contribute directly to achieving the following well-being goals: “a prosperous Wales” (which includes taking action on climate change), “a resilient Wales”, and “a globally responsible Wales”.

The Programme for Government 2021 to 2026

The proposed hydrogen policy will make a direct contribution to the objectives of The Programme for Government:

• Embed our response to the climate and nature emergency in everything we do.
• Build a stronger, greener economy as we make maximum progress towards decarbonisation.

3. We have a statutory duty to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. The Welsh Government expects all new development to mitigate the causes of climate change in accordance with the energy hierarchy for planning (page 93).

By building a stronger and greener economy, this policy will contribute to the objectives of the Welsh Government’s Cymraeg 2050 strategy of developing an economy within which the Welsh language can thrive. A thriving economy ensures a firm footing for Welsh language communities, allowing people to stay in Wales for employment, and attracting young people back with high quality job prospects.   

Low carbon hydrogen is increasingly recognised by Governments around the world as having an important role to play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, especially in sectors which are difficult to decarbonise with other solutions. Hydrogen is potentially one of the ways we can shift our reliance away from fossil fuels, while also supporting the green economy.  

Hydrogen production in Wales could come from a range of processes and sources, such as electrolysis, steam methane reforming of natural gas with carbon capture, bioenergy, or nuclear generation. While hydrogen is still a developing technology, its unique properties mean it could have a significant role in Wales’ energy system, transport, industry and heating. Currently, hydrogen production and use in the UK is relatively limited in scale and scope, but interest in projects is developing across Wales. This provides an opportunity to think about how we need to see hydrogen deployed in Wales to maximise its decarbonisation potential, and maximise prosperity for Welsh citizens through sustainable investment, jobs and wealth creation.

The development of hydrogen in Wales will be driven mainly by the needs of industry and the decisions that they take regarding their optimum decarbonisation and economic growth pathways. Industry and energy generation operators have been clear that in addition to improved efficiency, fuel-switching to hydrogen is part of their overall strategy for decarbonising the economy to address the climate emergency.

The ability of hydrogen to provide a lower greenhouse gas emission alternative to fossil fuels is dependent on how it is generated, where it is used, how it is used, and whether it displaces higher carbon intensive energy generation and use. Colours are often used to describe the different production methods.

Grey and brown hydrogen are generated by reforming or gasification of fossil fuels without capturing the CO2 emitted during its production. This process has been widely used in the past as the first step to ammonia production from coal or gas and is widely used in refineries worldwide to produce hydrogen from heavy oil fractions. Due to the energy losses involved in its production, the use of grey hydrogen as a fuel potentially increases CO2 emissions when compared to consuming fossil fuels.

Blue hydrogen is similarly produced from fossil fuels, specifically natural gas, however, the resulting CO2 emissions are captured and permanently stored in geological formations via Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Production of blue hydrogen represents a major investment, as in addition to building the hydrogen production facility, it is also necessary to build the CO2-capture facility, and then transport the captured CO2 to a permanent storage facility. Blue hydrogen production requires a permit for injection and storage of CO2 into a qualified site for geological storage. Getting this permit can take 3 to 10 years, depending on site characteristics. It is therefore likely that investments into large-scale blue hydrogen production towards 2030 will be made only as part of government-supported or coordinated initiatives.

Green hydrogen can be generated by electrolysis of water using either dedicated renewable electricity, and/or electricity delivered from the grid. Electrolysis efficiencies are currently in the range 70 to 80%. We expect a rapid decline in the cost of green hydrogen with it achieving price parity with blue hydrogen in the early 2030s. Continued development of hydrogen refuelling infrastructure will trigger broader uptake of fuel-cell electric vehicles, particularly in HGV’s (A carbon capture, utilisation, and storage network for Wales: report, page 24).

The production of hydrogen gas from renewable electricity through electrolysis has a very low carbon footprint since there are virtually zero GHG emissions during operations. Such hydrogen production can provide a clean and cost-effective way to store excess electricity generation from variable renewables, and thereby enable greater fractions of renewables, principally solar PV and wind, in the electricity mix.

UK Low Carbon Hydrogen Standard 

The UK Low Carbon Hydrogen Standard sets a maximum threshold for the amount of greenhouse gas emissions allowed in the production process for hydrogen to be considered ‘low carbon hydrogen’. Compliance with the Standard is intended to help ensure new low carbon hydrogen production makes a direct contribution to our carbon reduction targets and sets a clear metric against which all hydrogen production can be evaluated.

Both Blue and Green hydrogen have the potential to produce hydrogen which complies with the current Standard, as does hydrogen produced from biogenic gas reforming, biomass gasification, and waste gasification.

On 8 November 2022, the then Minister for Climate Change issued a statement in the Senedd, setting out our position on hydrogen and its potential to contribute to decarbonisation. The statement recognised that hydrogen, if sustainably manufactured and deployed, may provide one of the few ways to decarbonise heavy industry through fuel switching, and to reduce emissions in hard-to-abate modes of transportation, notably in heavy goods vehicles, aviation and shipping. There is also considerable potential to use hydrogen as a storage medium for renewable energy, especially if it can be deployed to store excess energy production. It may also have a limited role as a replacement for natural gas in heating solutions.

Hydrogen therefore offers clear and significant potential to form part of a transition towards sustained low carbon energy and industry. However, it is important that any proposal for hydrogen generation or use considers its carbon intensity and impact relative to alternative options.

It is important to ensure that policy objectives do not shift our net-zero responsibilities and emissions out of Wales, or disincentivise investment in our energy and industrial sectors. It is equally imperative that investment in hydrogen does not disincentivise other established and proven low-zero greenhouse gas emission technologies, or inadvertently prolong our dependence on fossil fuels.  

On the 15 October 2024, the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning gave a statement on the economy and green energy. The statement outlined a vision for the future of industry and energy generation in Wales as one in which sustainable industries are retained in Wales and continue to generate high-quality jobs and other benefits for the communities in which they operate. We want industry to substantially reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and its generation of greenhouse gases. Our policy for hydrogen will recognise its potential to contribute to decarbonisation. 

Our vision for the future of industry and energy generation in Wales is one in which:

• Sustainable industries are developed and retained in Wales.
• Wales’ Green Economy grows, securing high-quality jobs and wider benefits for communities and future generation.
• Industry has substantially reduced its reliance on fossil fuels and its generation of greenhouse gases.
• Where fossil fuels are still used and emissions are still generated, those emissions are reduced and captured to the fullest extent possible and safely and permanently stored.
• There is a credible and sustainable plan for industry to work towards eliminating all greenhouse gas emissions, and all dependence on fossil fuels.

To help achieve this vision, and to maximise the positive potential for hydrogen in Wales, it is the Welsh Government’s preferred policy position that:

Welsh Government supports the development of emerging hydrogen infrastructure & applications which will have a positive impact on delivery towards net-zero, and just transitions for citizens and industry affected by climate change.

Welsh Government encourages the targeted production and use of hydrogen where:

• it makes a clear, measurable and sustained contribution to decarbonisation, the transition away from fossil fuel consumption, and prosperity for Wales (supported by evidence).
• The hydrogen meets the requirements of the UK Low Carbon Hydrogen Standard.
• The developer(s) can provide evidence of contributing to a just-transition for those communities and industries affected by the deployment of hydrogen.

The responsibility for demonstrating that hydrogen is the right choice, that it contributes to long-term decarbonisation, and builds a stronger, greener economy, should rest with the developer.

Key policy principles

Our preferred policy looks to encourage and, where appropriate, to support those developments, when considered throughout their entire life cycle, across supply chains, and in combination with other technologies and processes, that provide the greatest and swiftest contributions to decarbonisation, genuine prosperity for Wales, and a just transition.  

• Our preferred policy does not prescribe favoured technologies, processes, production methods or hydrogen applications, thereby providing developers with the broadest possible scope to devise innovative approaches to Welsh energy and industry decarbonisation issues.  
   
• Our preferred policy approach is to focus on the absolute emission intensity of the hydrogen, and its contribution to prosperity throughout a development’s life cycle, rather than approving specific production methods. This will require clear evidence and plans for shifting to lower carbon hydrogen, displacing fossil fuels in the supply chain, adopting new technologies and processes, creating new sustainable jobs, and ensures a just transition. This provides better measures of the desirability of a development rather than the production method alone.
   
• Compliance with the policy will require the production of hydrogen to comply with the UK Low Carbon Hydrogen Standard, which currently requires a GHG Emission Intensity that is less than or equal to 20 grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per megajoule of Hydrogen product (20.0g CO₂e/MJLHV). This standard is set by the UK Government, following consultation with the devolved administrations, and is periodically reviewed. Using a carbon intensity standard, rather than prescribing technology or processes, ensures that all proposals are measured against a consistent metric (and a metric that allows developers to access UK Government financial support).
   
• The November 2022 statement recognised that in order to support the decarbonisation of industry in Wales, we may need to move through a phase of using blue hydrogen produced by fossil fuels. Therefore, our preferred policy would allow for the appropriate and limited use of fossil fuels as a hydrogen feedstock, provided it can be demonstrated that their use contributes to an accelerated pathway to low zero-carbon hydrogen (for example, by developing markets for hydrogen or developing a critical skilled workforce).  
   
• Welsh Government expects all new development to mitigate the causes of climate change in accordance with the energy hierarchy for planning in Planning Policy Wales; reduce energy demand, use energy efficiently, renewable energy generation, minimise the carbon impact of other energy, and minimise the extraction of carbon intensive energy.
   
• The primary objective of PPW is to ensure that the planning system contributes towards the delivery of sustainable development and improves the social, economic, environmental and cultural well being of Wales. It puts an emphasis on people and places and will ensure developments built today leave a legacy of well-designed, sustainable places that improve lives.
   
• In evidencing a just transition and a contribution to wellbeing goal, developers are expected to give full  consideration to the requirements of PPW and all material policies, for example:
  •    Investment in decarbonisation developments and jobs.
  •    Ensuring a just transition does not harm but enhances the natural environment.
  •    Take into account the health of people and communities.
  •    Preventing the offshoring of emissions and pollution. 
  •    Contributing positively to the culture of Wales, enabling positive health outcomes, community cohesion and sustainable economic growth (especially in rural communities).

We propose that the preferred policy position would be issued as a Ministerial written statement to the Senedd. Based on the outcome of the consultation, we intend to give further consideration on how the policy could be embedded within future editions of Planning Policy Wales and Net Zero Wales Carbon Budgets, environmental permitting system, and the energy licensing system. This would help inform developers, industry, relevant regulators and the public about our policy objectives for hydrogen in Wales.

This would ensure that public and commercial investment is directed towards those developments that provide the greatest well-being and decarbonisation benefits for Wales and its citizens.

The policy would inform the Welsh Government’s decisions in its role as a landowner and provider of investment funding and support.  

It would also form the basis for our ongoing engagement with the UK Government and regulators regarding the aspects of hydrogen production, transport, storage and use for which they are responsible.

Planning Policy Wales recognises an energy hierarchy. This hydrogen policy will provide developers seeking planning permission with additional context on where their hydrogen development might sit within this hierarchy, similarly to where PPW currently expects all new development to mitigate the causes of climate change in accordance with the energy hierarchy for planning.

Where appropriate, PPW translates wider Welsh Government objectives, strategies and policy into planning policy. PPW will continue to be monitored and reviewed in relation to the Welsh Government’s objectives, strategies and policies and will be amended where changes to land use planning policy can assist in achieving these outcomes.

Wales’ planning policy is designed to help Wales reduce carbon emissions. The National Development Framework (Future Wales) also ensures the planning system in Wales plays a key role in facilitating clean growth and decarbonisation and helps build resilience to the impacts of climate change. Achieving our strategic decarbonisation goals is highlighted as a key driver that all development plans must support. 

Question 1: Do you agree with the proposed policy position set out in this document? If not, please indicate where you disagree and your reasons for disagreeing.

Question 2: Do you think the energy hierarchy within PPW is sufficient to inform planning officials in the development and employment of hydrogen within Wales? If not, do you think it needs to be reflected in further detail within PPW.

Question 3: What type of appropriate additional information or guidance would help give effect to this policy, for developers, investors and decision makers?

Question 4: What type of organisation are you answering on behalf of e.g power generation, large industry user, SME, transport, academic, consultancy, individual? Please provide the name of the organisation, where appropriate.

Question 5: We would like to know your views on the effects that 'Hydrogen production, storage, transportation and use' would have on the Welsh language, specifically on opportunities for people to use Welsh and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than English. What effects do you think there would be? How could positive effects be increased, or negative effects be mitigated?

Question 6: Please also explain how you believe the proposed policy could be formulated or changed so as to have positive effects or increased positive effects on opportunities for people to use the Welsh language and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language, and no adverse effects on opportunities for people to use the Welsh language and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.

Question 7: We have asked a number of specific questions. If you have any related issues which we have not specifically addressed, please use this space to report them:

The closing date for responses is 16 May 2025, and you can respond in any of the following ways:

• by email: please complete the consultation response form and send it to: YmatebionYnni-EnergyResponses@llyw.cymru. Please include “Hydrogen consultation” in the subject line of your email.
• by post: please complete the consultation response form and send it to:

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Timeline of policies and statements related to decarbonisation of energy

Despite energy policy being largely reserved, there is much that the Welsh Government has done over the past decade to progress the transition to a low carbon economy. This gives an outline of the evolution of key commitments and policies in Wales that have facilitated this transition.  

• Programme for Government 2007 to present
• Well-being objectives
• Specific Policy Statements
• Key Ministerial Announcements 

Legislative Devolution 2007 to Present: this website gives an overview on how legislative powers have evolved in Wales 

Programme for Government

A Programme for Government is typically published at the start of Parliament, and sets out the strategy, policy and legislative programme that will be progressed and delivered throughout that Parliament. 

The various Programmes for Government from 2007 to present make numerous and consistent commitments to decarbonisation, increasing the deployment of renewable energy, and increasingly constraining the use of fossil fuels. From 2016 onwards, following the introduction of the Well-Being Act 2015, the Programmes for Government also include well-being objectives.

The 2021 to 2026 Programme for government was originally published 15 June 2021, and updated on 7 December 2021. It includes two strategic areas relevant to energy policy:

Build a stronger, greener economy as we make maximum progress towards decarbonisation

• Launch a new 10-year Wales Infrastructure Investment Plan for zero-carbon economy.

Embed our response to the climate and nature emergency in everything we do

• Commission independent advice that will examine potential pathways to net zero by 2035
• Pursue devolution of powers needed to help reach net zero, including management of the Crown Estate in Wales
• Uphold our policy of opposing the extraction of fossil fuels in Wales, both on land and in Welsh waters, using the powers available to us

Policy Publications

2010 

A Low Carbon Revolution – The Welsh Assembly Government Energy Policy Statement (March 2010) 
The Cabinet Forward for the 2010 Energy Policy Statement specifically highlighted climate change as the greatest environmental, economic and social challenge facing the planet.

2012 

Energy Wales: a low carbon transition (2012)
The First Minister’s Forward for the 2012 Energy Wales policy statement highlighted that “energy is a defining issue for our generation”. As a nation, we are rich in energy resources which provides a tremendous opportunity to fuel our drive for a fairer and more prosperous Wales. Welsh Government will harness our energy potential in a way that creates a sustainable, low carbon economy for Wales as we face the major challenges presented by climate change and energy security.

The Transition to Low Carbon and the role of gas
The 2012 Energy Wales policy statement outlined Welsh Government’s understanding of the transition to a low carbon economy.

2014 

Energy Wales: a low carbon transition delivery plan 
The 2014 Delivery Plan outlined how Welsh Government would develop the proposals set out in Energy Wales: a low carbon transition, published in March 2012.

2018 

Petroleum Policy (10 December 2018)
Written Statement: Petroleum Extraction Policy statement (10 December 2018)
The Wales Act 2017 was an important step in handing further control to Welsh Ministers for the consenting of energy projects in Wales including the future onshore licensing of oil & gas extraction. The new powers were an opportunity to consider what the appropriate balance of energy sources in Wales should be now and in the future.
 

2021 

Coal policy statement (22 March 2021)
The policy of Welsh Government is to bring to a managed end the extraction and use of coal. Therefore, Welsh Ministers do not intend to authorise new Coal Authority mining operation licences or variations to existing licences. Coal licences may be needed in wholly exceptional circumstances and each application will be decided on its own merits, but the presumption will always be against coal extraction

Plenary Statements

2016 

Plenary Statement – Fifth Senedd 

Statement by Lesley Griffiths AM, The Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs:

This Government remains committed to the ambitions set out in ‘Energy Wales’. I have three clear priorities for this Assembly. First, we will reduce the amount of energy we use in Wales. Second, we will reduce our reliance on energy generated from fossil fuels. Third, we will actively manage the transition to a low-carbon economy. We will drive this transition to deliver maximum benefits for Wales, providing strategic leadership, and reducing uncertainty. We must continue to grow the economy at the same time as reducing emissions and managing affordability. I will ensure our policies and support are aligned and work towards delivering a low-carbon energy system for Wales.

2020 

Plenary Statement  - transition from Fossil fuels to an energy system based on renewables

Statement by Julie James MS, Minister for Climate Change:

While messages from the UK Government have been confusing and contradictory, we have been clear and consistent. We will keep fossil fuels in the ground, and we will continue to apply all the levers at our disposable to phase out the extraction of fossil fuels in Wales. We will build a flexible, smart, renewables-based energy system. And we will ensure our households, businesses and communities benefit from the transition with increased energy security and less exposure for customers to the global price of fossil fuels.

2023 

A Just Transition Framework was issued on how to achieve net-zero in a fair Way.

2024 

A Heat strategy for Wales outlined how we would transition to Low Carbon Heating.

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