In addition to pipelines, will we soon need a nationwide network of hydrogen filling stations? There is also a dispute about this.
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Munich Green hydrogen should make Germany more independent of Russian natural gas in the long term. What is needed now, above all, is “quickly more hydrogen pipelines”, demanded the CSU chairman Markus Söder just a few days ago. There is just one problem: there is little progress in building the green infrastructure.
“The interest in hydrogen in Europe is huge,” says Matthias Jenn. But nobody can explain to the managing director of Bayernets GmbH, a long-distance network operator (FNB) that supplies Bavaria with natural gas, where the green hydrogen (H2) from renewable electricity is supposed to come from.
Technically, it is not a problem to rededicate a natural gas pipeline for hydrogen transport. Jenn is concerned that southern Germany is far away from ports like Rotterdam, where hydrogen could land. Or the North Sea wind farms that are supposed to produce it. The large industrial locations in the Ruhr area, with customers such as steel production and refineries, are closer to “the H2 eating chain”.
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