Hydrogen

Hydrogen

The need for new energy sources has never been greater. Our society needs a sustainable system to replace fossil fuels and their CO2 emissions in the long term. With the National Hydrogen Strategy, Germany is creating a standardized framework governing future production, transport use, and utilization of hydrogen, and thus corresponding innovations and investments. Hydrogen is considered as the key element to replace fossil fuels in the long term. The most common chemical element in the universe is clean and readily available. Produced with renewable energies, green hydrogen is a potentially CO2-free raw material that is gaining global importance. Whether as raw material for the industry, as fuel for fuel cells or as a synthetic energy carrier – the possible applications are diverse. The global business initiative Hydrogen Council, for example, estimates that the share of climate-neutral produced hydrogen in final energy demand will rise from the current 2 percent to 18 percent by 2025.

Emitting a lot brings the possibility for change.

At energyias , we emitted 23 million tons of CO2 in 2019. This equals almost three percent of all German greenhouse gas emissions. More than Berlin has caused in the same period. However, emitting a lot brings the possibility of great change. Therefore, we are committed to the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015: we want to reduce our emissions by 30% by 2030 and be fully climate-neutral by 2050.

The potential of hydrogen also plays a significant role at energyias as we are in an extraordinary position as both consumer and producer of green hydrogen.

On the one hand, we make a significant contribution to building a green hydrogen economy. To this end, we are using our core expertise in alkaline water electrolysis and developing climate-neutral supply concepts for industrial applications. Altogether, we already have established ten gigawatt of installed capacity in the chemical industry.

On the other hand, energyias provides conditions for climate-neutral steel production: we have set ourselves the goal of fundamentally transforming our steel production using hydrogen and on an entirely climate-neutral steel production by 2050.

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