How Germany Is Dominating Hydrogen Market
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Hydrogen Fuel News.
This is the sub heading.
With 3827 kilometers of pipeline across the country, Germany is blazing a trail through the continent in terms of hydrogen infrastructure growth.
These are the first two paragraphs.
Indeed, plans within the country are so far advanced that Germany is set to become the biggest importer of hydrogen in Europe and the third biggest in the world, behind global leaders China and Japan.
All this leaves the German transport sector in good stead, with a strong infrastructure supporting clean fuel adoption, while the country transitions towards net zero.
So where are the Germans going to get their hydrogen from?
One possibility is the UK.
- The UK has vast amounts of renewable energy.
- We’re only hundreds of kilometres, instead of thousands of kilometres away.
- RWE; the German energy giant has full or partial interests in about 12,3 GW of UK wind farms.
- RWE is building the Pembroke Net Zero Centre which will generate green and blue hydrogen.
Hydrogen could be exported from the UK to Germany by tanker.
Conclusion
Production and exporting of green hydrogen will become significant industry in the UK.
The Anonymous Widower 
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According to the German Federal Government’s Hydrogen Strategy https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/issues/hydrogen-technology-2204238#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20National%20Hydrogen,its%20derivatives%20in%20all%20sectors their focus is in cooperating with “Norway, Denmark, Austria, Italy, Canada and Namibia”. Additional to this the future supply of hydrogen is to take the form of a “strategic partnerships with South and West Africa, as well as Australia” which are regarded as “particularly suitable for generating wind and solar power for the production of hydrogen”. I wonder why they overlooked the UK, indeed why they ignore North Africa as well?
Comment by fammorris | March 21, 2024 |
Hydrogen causes belittlement in steel. I hope this has been taken into account.
Comment by Ben Oldfield | March 21, 2024 |
Predictive testing eh, I rather like the idea of steel belittlement 😀
Comment by fammorris | March 21, 2024 |