The EU Innovation Fund awarded RWE a €108 million grant for its FUREC project, which intends to create circular and green hydrogen from non-recyclable municipal solid waste in Limburg, the Netherlands.
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In a special address at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reaffirmed Germany’s goal of attaining climate neutrality, or net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, by 2045.
At the German-French Council of Ministers in Paris, it is expected that a project to produce green hydrogen will be considered.
The head of the largest gas pipeline operator, Open Grid Europe, stated that Germany must accelerate the pace of a hydrogen law amendment, which is pending in Berlin, to enable related investments in gas transport networks up until the end of the decade (OGE).
The possibility of establishing a new hydrogen hub in Germany will be assessed by bp. The Wilhelmshaven-based project is anticipated to comprise an ammonia cracker that, starting in 2028, could produce up to 130,000 tons of low-carbon hydrogen annually from green ammonia.
Federal financing is being used to support a German-Brazilian partnership that produces hydrogen from manure with the help of the energy technology firm Mele from Torgelow.
ABO Wind is connecting a wind farm with the creation and usage of green hydrogen for the first time: The Hünfeld-Michelsrombach project is being funded by the Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and Transport with about twelve million euros as part of the National Innovation Programme for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology. NOW GmbH coordinates the funding guideline, while Project Management Jülich is in charge of putting it into action (PtJ).
The hydrogen storage pilot project H2CAST in the Etzel caverns in the German state of Lower Saxony will now include Gasunie as a partner. Today, STORAG ETZEL and Gasunie announced this. This cooperation, according to Gasunie, is a first step in the development of hydrogen storage facilities in Germany.
Prime Minister Markus Söder regarded the new energy idea, the “Champions League” of electrolysis, as a huge success. However, there, Siemens’ generation of hydrogen currently poses a major risk of becoming a disaster.
The Netherlands and Germany stand to gain the most from the industry’s transition to green hydrogen. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by the Centre for European Policy (CEP) that looks at the geographical potential offered by the European hydrogen economy.
