Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection of German government Robert Habeck has handed over funding decisions totalling 4.6 billion euros for twenty-three hydrogen infrastructure projects in Berlin. The projects are part of the third so-called Hy2Infra wave of the IPCEI Hydrogen (Important Projects of Common European Interest). The EU Commission approved these under state aid law in February 2024.
The funded projects include Thyssengas’ first cross-border hydrogen connection between the Netherlands and Germany, the Thyssengas reported. This pipeline will run from Vlieghuis in the Netherlands to Ochtrup in North Rhine-Westphalia and connect the industrial centre of NRW to the Dutch H2 network.
The handover marks an important joint success at the end of a long and not always easy road – from the founding of the current GET H2 project consortium and the first expression of interest in the IPCEI process to the official classification as a project eligible for funding by the EU Commission in February 2024. The funding decision is now the final building block to further advance the ramp-up within GET H2.
Now things can really get going! Together with ambitious goals into the H2 future: The GET H2 partners bp, Evonik, Nowega GmbH, OGE, RWE and Thyssengas want to jointly lay the foundations for a German and European hydrogen economy. In addition to the realisation of pipeline networks, they are planning the implementation of electrolysis plants in the megawatt range and the use of H2 in refineries, the steel industry and in heavy goods transport.
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