Innovative economic growth thanks to the environmentally-friendly hydrogen generation.
Niedersachsen is fully committed to the global and national climate protection goals. Thus, our measures don’t stop at the development of renewable energies, but go far beyond this. As a pioneer of sector coupling, Niedersachsen is researching and trialling the extraction of green hydrogen from renewable energies.
Hydrogen is already being used in northern Germany today in many pioneering projects and business models.
On 7 November 2019 the Minister of Economic Affairs and the senators of the German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen and Schleswig-Holstein jointly approved the Northern German hydrogen strategy. Interdisciplinary working groups from business, science and the public services were set up to implement the fields of action.
In 2016 ALSTOM in Salzgitter presented the world’s first hydrogen train. A pair of trains was trialled for a year and a half between Buxtehude and Cuxhaven until May 2020. Regular service is set to follow in 2022.
Find out moreFaun has developed an alternative engine concept for waste collection vehicles and street sweepers: Faun BluePower combines the battery and fuel cell engine, thus successfully reducing harmful emissions.
Find out moreAudi produces synthetic gas from regenerative power and to this end manufactures green hydrogen in a six-megawatt electrolysis facility. The EWE biogas plant supplies CO2 for the methanation of the hydrogen. Vehicles powered by e-gas have 70 percent lower CO2 emissions than petrol engines.
Find out moreSalzgitter AG generates hydrogen in a high-temperature electrolysis facility. Replacing coke with green hydrogen will lead to a considerable reduction in CO2 emissions in steel production in the future.
Find out moreA local network of stakeholders, funded by the HyStarter funding programme, is developing a hydrogen concept for the region. The Schaumburg region has an exceptionally dense gas network and extensive experience of hydrogen: until the switch to natural gas at the end of the 1960s, both coke oven gas and the mains gas consisted of over 55% hydrogen.
Find out moreA holistic concept for the integration of an H2 infrastructure has been developed in the town of Brake and the surrounding northwest metropolitan region, focusing in particular on port and logistics processes. The concept is part of a project aimed at reducing CO2 emissions in transport and logistics by switching to hydrogen-based technology.
Find out moreA regional concept for integrated hydrogen use is in operation in eleven districts of the Elbe-Weser region for overland transport (lorries/public transport) in conjunction with regional stakeholders from all of the relevant parts of the value chain.
Find out moreIn addition to the CCU Salzbergen real-life laboratory aimed at developing a concept for integrated hydrogen use in the Emsland district, other projects have been initiated in the region dealing with industrial production, Hybridge (the coupling of the electricity and gas network), sector coupling and Green Refinery.
Find out moreEWE, together with approximately 90 partners from industry and politics, hopes to power zero-emission transport using green hydrogen in the northwestern metropolitan region and northern Germany by bringing together the industry, energy and transport sectors. This project focuses on the holistic establishment of a hydrogen-based infrastructure of H2 refuelling stations and fuel cell vehicles for use in transport and industry. The hydrogen-based model region focuses on the towns of Cuxhaven, Wilhelmshaven, Bremerhaven, Oldenburg and Bremen. Their long-term objective is to gradually expand the supply and demand for hydrogen across all sectors.
Offering support to the local hydrogen industry and promoting cross-sector networking:
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