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Malu Dreyer, the premier of the Rhineland-Palatinate, has advocated for quickening the planning of hydrogen pipelines.

The SPD’s leader of government told the German press agency, “We must move things along quickly. “We must progress in all of these projects as quickly as we have with the LNG terminals along the North Sea coast.” This Saturday, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility will start operations in Wilhelmshaven.

Malu Dreyer, the premier of the Rhineland-Palatinate, has advocated for quickening the planning of hydrogen transport pipelines. The SPD’s leader of government told the German press agency, “We must move things along quickly. “We must progress in all of these projects as quickly as we have with the LNG terminals along the North Sea coast.” This Saturday, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility will start operations in Wilhelmshaven.

According to Dreyer, hydrogen pipelines are crucial for all energy-intensive businesses in Rhineland-Palatinate. Since there will be such a high need for hydrogen, there will also be commercial interest in it. Rhenish-Palatinate is moving in the right direction. For instance, Daniela Schmitt, the FDP’s minister of economics, is interested in using the Rhine’s interior ports to transport hydrogen.

Rhineland-Palatinate depends on the transportation of gas and hydrogen through Belgium, just like North Rhine-Westphalia does. She is aware of the need for additional upgrades to the pipes there thanks to conversations with the Belgian authorities, Dreyer added.

The federal government is allegedly focusing “very one-sidedly in the direction of northern Germany” when it comes to securing energy supply, according to NRW Europe Minister Nathanael Liminski (CDU). “The immense potential given by our neighbors in the West” is neglected.

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Arnes Biogradlija is the founder and Editor in Chief of EnergyNews.biz, which he launched in 2021 to separate energy transition realities from fairy tales. He writes data driven analysis on hydrogen, energy storage, small modular reactors, grids and industrial policy, and leads the Energy Talks interview series. EnergyNews.biz reporting has been cited more than 100 times by the International Energy Agency.

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