Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) expects a major upheaval in German industry in the transition to new technologies and renewable energies. The German economy will produce and use energy in a completely different way than has been the case in the past, Scholz said on Tuesday when visiting a hydrogen filling station in the Frankfurt-Höchst industrial park. With renewable energies and technologies such as hydrogen, Germany could free itself from dependency and defend its sovereignty.
Hydrogen can be used for mobility, production and technical processes. In Höchst you can see that this works. “Especially now that we see how dependent we are on energy imports from all over the world and in this case especially from Russia, it is important to know that we have a realistic, economically functioning technological capability that creates jobs and added value in Germany own,” said Scholz. This must be pushed ahead with great speed and implemented on a large industrial scale.
From the end of the year, passenger trains that the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) wants to use will be refueled at the filling station in Frankfurt-Höchst. A total of 27 of these will operate in the Rhine-Main area. According to RMV, this would be the world’s largest train fleet with fuel cells. The hydrogen is initially so-called gray hydrogen, which is a waste product in the industrial park.
