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Professor Hans Schäfers explains how Germany can become climate-neutral by 2045 with the help of hydrogen.

How research is driving the energy transition

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Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg) has completed the X-Energy research project after nine years. Together with over 20 partners, scientists from the Competence Center for Renewable Energy and Energy ­Efficiency (CC4E) developed solutions for sector coupling, power-to-gas...

Prof. Werner Beba (left) with German economy minister Robert Habeck at the consortium meeting in 2022
Obituary for Professor Werner Beba

New management for the northern real-world lab

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Mike Blicker will be the new project coordinator of the Norddeutsches Reallabor (Northern German real-world lab, NRL), a joint project on the use of green hydrogen in practice. To test different paths to a climate-neutral energy system, more than 50 partners from commerce, academia and politics have joined forces to form this real-world laboratory, which will be supported by the German ministry for economy and climate protection (BMWK) as well as ministry for transport and digital infrastructure (BMDV). The environmental engineer and process engineer had provisionally taken over the director function after the death of the previous project coordinator, Professor Dr. Werner Beba, and was before that his deputy. Moreover, Blicker was a research member of the NRL working groups “Wärme und Quartiere” (heating and neighborhoods) as well as “Industrie,” and he was part of the management of the HAW research project X-Energy.

Hamburg gains H2 demo center

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All across Germany, more and more sites that focus on hydrogen are popping up. In addition to real-world labs, HyLand Regions and ITZ satellites, there are so-called centers where hydrogen research and development is being driven forward. An additional contact point is now to be created in Hamburg...