On September 4, Andreas Kuhlmann, Chairman of the Board of the German Energy Agency dena, was a guest at the Center Hydrogen Bavaria (H2.B) and the Energy Campus Nuremberg. The background of the visit was a double interview with the H2.B board member Prof. Veronika Grimm for dena's energy transition magazine "transition".
On July 30th , the Innovation Representative "Green Hydrogen" of the BMBF, Dr. Stefan Kaufmann, visited the Hydrogen Center Bavaria (H2.B) and the Energy Campus Nuremberg. The government's "Mister Hydrogen", who was appointed in June, is visiting numerous hydrogen players in Germany in the upcoming weeks to inform himself about their activities and technological developments. One of the first stops shortly after his inauguration as Innovation Representative was the Hydrogen Center Bavaria.
H2.B board member Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm has been appointed to the National Hydrogen Council as one of 25 members. In her function as H2.B board member, she has already done important work in the development of a position paper as a basis for the Bavarian Hydrogen Strategy. This position paper was realized together with her colleague oft he H2.B Board of Directors, Prof. Dr. Peter Wasserscheid, and the meanwhile over 70 partners in the Bavarian Hydrogen Alliance.
The National Hydrogen Strategy (Nationale Wasserstoffstrategie, NWS) published on Wednesday is a groundbreaking step towards a climate-neutral economy and society and provides important impulses to strengthen the economy, research institutions and local authorities in Bavaria and throughout Germany. In recent years, research institutions and industry in the Free State of Bavaria have laid the foundations to be among the pioneers in the field of innovative technologies for the hydrogen economy and hydrogen-based mobility of tomorrow.
The European Hydrogen Strategy published on Wednesday is a major step towards an internationally climate-neutral economy and society. "With the hydrogen strategy, the EU has also presented a programme for the integration of energy systems. The plans contained therein to adapt energy taxation to the climate policy goals and to quickly strive for CO2 price signals in all sectors are decisive for the attractiveness of hydrogen and synthetic energy carriers "
At a press conference at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre today, the Bavarian State Minister of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, Hubert Aiwanger, presented the Bavarian Hydrogen Strategy. The two board members of the Hydrogen Center Bavaria (H2.B), Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm and Prof. Dr. Peter Wasserscheid, also presented the position paper of the Bavarian Hydrogen Alliance, which was developed as the basis for the Bavarian Hydrogen Strategy together with almost 40 partners in the Hydrogen Alliance, including research institutions, companies and representatives of associations and local authorities.
