In June this year the German Ministry of Economy and Energy published its hydrogen strategy and established the National Hydrogen Council. It is the government’s ambition to secure a global leadership role on hydrogen technologies focusing on the energy sector, but likewise on decarbonizing key industrial sectors such as steel and chemicals, petrochemicals, transportation and mobility and the heating sector.

The experts were:

• Dr. Christoph Ploß, member of the German Bundestag, CDU
• Gerrit Riemer, Head of Governmental Affairs Germany, thyssenkrupp
• Barbara Lempp, Managing Director EFET Germany
• David Scrimgeour, promoter of co-operations on hydrogen between Germany and the UK, as our surprise guest 

Moderators: Dr. Gabriele Haas and Thomas Schubert, both Dentons Europe LLP.

We would like to thank the experts for the interesting presentations and discussions about the status quo and plans of the legislator, the crucial regulations and frameworks to pave the way from strategy to readiness. The expert presentations are available in the "Event materials" section below.

Event materials

• Presentation: "From German National Hydrogen Strategy to market-readiness"
• EFET comments on the Roadmap for an EU Hydrogen Strategy

Upcoming events

New event dates of our Hydrogen series will be released soon! Stay tuned.