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In order to implement the National Hydrogen Strategy, the Federal Government is initiating bilateral and multilateral funding measures and initiatives outside Europe and is thus supporting activities in the international arena.
Measure in preparationGenerationApplication
Article:Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfD) programme
Carbon Contracts for Difference between the state and companies in energy-intensive industry are designed to compensate for the higher cost of climate-friendly production processes compared with conventional processes.
Submission process closedGenerationTransport / InfrastructureApplication
Article:“Hydrogen Republic Germany” competition for ideas | Basic research into hydrogen
The funding goes towards research and development projects for highly innovative solutions for core issues relating to green hydrogen along the entire value chain
Article:Biological methanation using CO2 sources from bioenergy production and hydrogen at a central location for the production of renewable fuel
The call for applications for funding is taking place within the framework of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport’s guideline for the funding of measures for the development of renewable fuels, and is helping to bring biological methanation ...
Submission process closedGenerationTransport / InfrastructureApplication
Article:Call for applications for the funding of climate-friendly alternatively fuelled local passenger rail services and rail freight (07/2022)
The call allows the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport to promote market activation and the ramp-up of climate-friendly alternatively fuelled rolling stock in passenger and freight transport.
The BMDV funding to build and operate a development platform for PtL fuels is to serve as a bridge between the development of electricity-based fuels and the industrial ramp-up of these fuels needed to attain the climate targets in the transport sector ...
Article:Establishment of research capacities for green hydrogen in the Asia-Pacific region
The Research Ministry is providing funding to German higher education institutions and research institutions which are already doing research in the field of hydrogen technology and would like to work with research institutions in Australia, India, Japan ...
Article:Funding guideline for international hydrogen projects in the context of the National Hydrogen Strategy and the stimulus programme: Addressing the impact of coronavirus, safeguarding prosperity, making Germany fit for the future
The funding guideline sets up an offer of support for international projects (outside the EU and the EFTA countries) to build production plant for green hydrogen and its derivatives and for the storage, transport and integrated use of hydrogen and accompanying ...
Submission process closedTransport / InfrastructureApplication
Article:Funding of commercial and special-purpose vehicles using climate-friendly propulsion systems and of the associated refuelling and charging infrastructure
Zweiter Förderaufruf im Rahmen der Richtlinie über die Förderung von Nutzfahrzeugen mit alternativen, klimaschonenden Antrieben und dazugehöriger Tank- und Ladeinfrastruktur (KsNI).
A Hydrogen Innovation and Technology Centre is to be set up to serve as a development, certification and standardisation facility. As hydrogen is only in the early market phase and due to the high-level costs associated with this, the centre cannot be ...
