Germany plans to hold tenders for the development of 7.5GW of power plants that can run on hydrogen by early next year.
Berlin has said tenders will be put out for the building of 5GW of new hydrogen-ready gas plants and 2GW of retrofits to existing plants to make them hydrogen-ready – with the plants required to switch to blue or green hydrogen from their eighth year of operation.
The government will also fund 500MW of pure hydrogen power plants that will run on the energy carrier immediately, as well as 500MW of long-term storage.
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