H₂-Companion - Supportive research for the model region “Green Hydrogen Baden-Württemberg”

The use of green hydrogen will play an essential role, among other things, in achieving the national climate protection targets. The German government's national hydrogen strategy is setting the course for a societal and economic structural change, while the industrial and technology location of Baden-Württemberg is working to leverage the potential of this key technology as part of a hydrogen roadmap.

ifeu is collaborating with the research institutions Fraunhofer IAO, Fraunhofer ISI and IREES Institute for Resource Efficiency and Energy Strategy to provide supportive research for the EFRE funding program "Model Region Green Hydrogen". Both the city of Ulm together with the district of Reutlingen and the Alb-Donau district ("Hy-FIVE") and the Stuttgart area ("H2 GeNeSiS") were chosen as model regions.

Within the framework of the H₂ Companion project, ifeu is modelling the potential environmental impacts, e.g. a reduction of global warming potential, resulting from a transition toward a hydrogen driven economy. Overall, long-term development scenarios as well as economically and ecologically sustainable business models will be identified and the sustainable establishment of a hydrogen economy will be supported. One of the project's goals is to ensure that the model regions are economically viable in the long term in order to continue their development after the official end of the project period. In addition, the findings from the model regions are to be made transferable to other regions.