Germany further expands its hydrogen fuel station network with the recent opening of a hydrogen fuel pump in the city of Ulm, according to The Linde Group’s news release.
The station, located on the grounds of Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) on Helmholtzstrasse, is part of the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP), an alliance of 20 leading companies, which aims at establishing hydrogen as the ‘fuel of the future’.
Daimler, Total, The Linde Group, ZSW, and federal government officials participated in the inauguration of the new station.
Its construction was funded by Total and is one of the nine pumps the French oil giant operates in Germany.
Daimler and Linde invested around 20 million euros in 20 new hydrogen stations in Germany.
The filling stations are also funded as research and development projects by the German federal government through the National Innovation Programme for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NIP).
Currently there are 21 hydrogen filling stations in the country serving some six million people in the metropolitan regions of Berlin, Hamburg, the Rhine/Ruhr, Stuttgart and Munich.
“As part of the Clean Energy Partnership, the federal government has invested more than 110 million euros of funding in testing the technology for its suitability for everyday use since 2008. Now, in a first expansion stage, 50 hydrogen filling stations are being built, jointly funded by government and industry. The filling station in Ulm, whose construction and operation the federal government is funding with close to a million euros, closes the Munich-Stuttgart corridor,” explained Dr. Klaus Bonhoff, Managing Director of the National Organization for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NOW).
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