The state administration of Schleswig-Holstein and the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg decided to support the hydrogen economy.

The importance of utilising hydrogen would keep growing, both nations agreed. Due of this, the federal government has been urged to quickly connect Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein to the “HyPerLink III” European hydrogen transmission network being developed by the transmission system operator Gasunie.

For the energy transition to be successful, a hydrogen pipeline from Ellund, which is located near the German-Danish border, to Heidenau, which is located south of the Elbe, is essential. The federal government must make sure that this project can be completed by 2028 in order to supply hydrogen to northern German industry at an early stage.

The federal government is also urged to remove regulatory barriers to Germany’s renewable hydrogen economy and to provide a long-term, sustainable financing structure for the country’s hydrogen infrastructure.

Also, it is intended to consider the interests of the two northern German states early on in the creation of a federal government-targeted national port policy.