{"id":296,"date":"2024-07-29T04:38:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/explainer-how-germanys-hydrogen-economy-could-transform-energy-use\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T04:38:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:38:14","slug":"explainer-how-germanys-hydrogen-economy-could-transform-energy-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/explainer-how-germanys-hydrogen-economy-could-transform-energy-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer-How Germany&#8217;s hydrogen economy could transform energy use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By Vera Eckert<\/p>\n<p>FRANKFURT (Reuters) &#8211; German utility EnBW this week pledged 1 billion euros ($1.08 billion) to build pipelines to carry clean hydrogen as part of a plan for a nationwide grid that will start commercial operations by 2032.<\/p>\n<p>Germany is betting on green hydrogen, produced through electrolysis driven by wind and solar power, as an alternative to fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>For some, it is a gamble, for others a world-leading example.<\/p>\n<p>The following outlines the progress so far.<\/p>\n<p>WHY IS GERMANY CENTRAL TO EU HYDROGEN PLANS?<\/p>\n<p>Germany is spearheading the European Union&#8217;s shift towards cleaner energy because it is the bloc&#8217;s biggest economy and exporter,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/explainer-germanys-hydrogen-economy-could-130934026.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Vera Eckert FRANKFURT (Reuters) &#8211; German utility EnBW this week pledged 1 billion euros ($1.08 billion) to build pipelines to carry clean hydrogen as part of a plan for a nationwide grid that will start commercial operations by 2032. Germany is betting on green hydrogen, produced through electrolysis driven by wind and solar power, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[100,101,46,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-finance","7":"tag-clean-hydrogen","8":"tag-electrolysis","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-hydrogen-production"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}