Ministers and delegates from more than 30 nations, regions and organizations pledged Wednesday in Tokyo to introduce 10 million fuel cell vehicles, trucks, buses and other hydrogen-powered systems, as well as 10,000 hydrogen refueling stations, globally over the next 10 years.
"Hydrogen is not the silver bullet, but without hydrogen the energy transition will take much longer and will not be affordable. The key words for a successful energy transition are sector coupling and sectoral integration. The first stands for the coupling of the power, the heat and the gas sector. The second stands for the integration of renewables into different sectors such as mobility, residential heating and industry. In both cases, hydrogen is the most important enabler for the deep decarbonization of Europe next to electricity."
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“We have been working on hydrogen continuously through all these years, in different projects and each of those projects built upon each other,” Dr. Guldner reaffirms. “We simply had a varying amount of external noise that we made about each of them.”
“Maybe to the outside it looked like we have been a bit up and down with hydrogen, but internally it has been very steady and deliberate in terms of how the projects have logically built upon each other.”
This Road Map shows … with the right actions now, we can reinforce U.S. energy leadership and strengthen our economy by generating $140 billion per year in revenue and 700,000 jobs by 2030, and, $750 billion per year in revenue and 3.4 million jobs by 2050 hydrogen.
"...ultimately, this transition is a joint responsibility of the industry, infrastructure operators, member states, the European Commission and MEPs – it cannot be seen as the sole responsibility of vehicle manufacturers."
Ceres Power announced the successful development of its first zero-emission combined heat and power (CHP) system, designed exclusively for use with hydrogen fuel.
The German government believes hydrogen is key not only for a successful energy transition, but also for the future of the country's famed industry. This is why Germany must beat Asian countries – in particular China and Japan – to claim global leadership in the technology, according to economy minister Peter Altmaier.