The Thuringian state government has set up an interministerial working group to implement the funding instruments from the federal government's national hydrogen strategy. The tasks include “identifying possible applications of hydrogen technologies in Thuringia, developing key projects and identifying measures with which the state government can support the development of hydrogen projects in addition to the federal measures.” According to the Minister for the Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation, Anja Siegesmund, renewable energies currently account for over 60 percent of the state's electricity generation. “Part of it can be used for the production of hydrogen and thus for mobility, building heating and industrial processes.”
The National Hydrogen Strategy presented in June focuses on applications where the direct use of electricity from renewable energies is only possible with considerable difficulty, for example in high-temperature melting processes (steel, aluminum, glass), as well as in the transport sector (heavy goods, bus , rail transport, aviation).
Thuringia presented its own hydrogen strategy in October 2019. The 28-page paper prepared by the Bauhaus University Weimar is essentially an inventory of the country's economic and technical infrastructure as well as the research structure. Actors and potential of hydrogen applications are named.
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https://umwelt.thueringen.de/aktuelles/anzeigen-medieninformationen/wasserstoff-neue-taskforce
https://umwelt.thueringen.de/fileadmin/001_TMUEN/Aktuelles/2019/Wasserstoff_in_Thueringen-final.pdf
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Thuringia initiates hydrogen task force / © Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation Thuringia
