Today is Tuesday, 16 July 2024.
The National Hydrogen Strategy from the Federal Government of Germany aims to increase domestic electrolyser capacity to at least 10 GW in 2030 and to make hydrogen more available for use in the decarbonisation of industry, energy and the transport sector. As a reference, German electrolysis capacity in 2022 was only 0.057 GW. In other words, a huge increase expected in 6 years.
Germany is actively supporting the development of national, European and international value chains for hydrogen and as such is directly involved with the so called Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) Hydrogen programme.
IPCEI “Hy2Use” was approved by the European Commission on September 2022 and focuses on hydrogen applications in the industrial sector, while IPCEI “Hy2Infra” was approved February 2024, focusing on infrastructure investments.
Right after that, the European Commission gave the go-ahead for the funding of 24 German IPCEI hydrogen projects. Germany, including other six EU Member States - France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Slovakia - are involved in the Hy2Infra wave. Projects cover a total of over 2,700 kilometres of pipeline network, more than 3.2 GW of hydrogen production capacity and almost 370 GWh of storage capacity.
Click at the image below for a summary of National Hydrogen Strategy by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
As you will see, the premise is that the hydrogen demand in Germany will increase from 55 terawatt hours (TWh) currently to 95-130 TWh by 2030. Ports will play a key role as import locations for hydrogen. Recall yesterday’s post as a reference.
You may also like to read the article “Updating the National Hydrogen Strategy” by the German Law firm Taylor Wessing.
Among other information, examples quoted such as that the new steelworks operated by Germany’s largest steel producer is expected to consume 143,000 tonnes of hydrogen per year.
The hydrogen supply chain in Europe is still in a nascent phase, but infrastructure is being prepared to support the market ramp-up of renewable hydrogen supply.
Europe wants to be the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. This is 26 years from now.
And your country? Already executing a similar energy transition? As leader or follower?
The post from tomorrow will related to hydrogen in Canada.
