02/09/2024 (Agence Europe) – Speaking to students at the start of the academic year at Eindhoven University of Technology on Monday 2 September, the European Commissioner for Climate Action, Wopke Hoekstra, said that the European Commission would be proposing, later this month, the internal rules for the next European auction to support hydrogen projects, in the framework of the European Hydrogen Bank (see EUROPE 13447/8). This second auction should include non-price criteria. “While the first auction showed that European electrolysers have a good presence, China is now oversupplying them at ever-lower costs. So, I will ensure that the next auction is different,” he said. “We will have explicit criteria to build European electrolyser supply chains”. (PLD)