Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

“The state of Bremen, together with the other coastal states, will work intensively on the technology for using surplus wind power to produce hydrogen, thereby advancing an important field of expertise in the energy transition […]”.
“The use of hydrogen as an energy storage medium is an important pillar of sector coupling and opens up promising future markets for the Bremen and Bremerhaven locations.”

Excerpt from the coalition agreement for the 20th legislative period of the Bremen Parliament 2019-2023

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The state of Bremen may be the smallest federal state, with 683,000 people living in an area of only 419 square kilometres, but it is the federal state with the highest export ratio and a high share of industry. The largest industry is vehicle manufacturing with cars, ships, aircraft and spacecraft including rocket stages. There is also broad international expertise in the maritime industry and logistics, the wind industry and the food and luxury food industry. The ports in Bremerhaven and Bremen are the hubs of Bremen’s economy and shape the identity of the two-city state. The state’s universities and scientific research institutes have long been working on issues relating to renewable energies and increasingly also the hydrogen economy and sector coupling.
Potential for the production and application of hydrogen will arise in new industrial estates to be opened up and developed in Bremen and Bremerhaven, here in particular in the planned sustainable industrial estate Lune Delta. There are also promising starting points in industry, including the steelworks as the largest energy consumer, as well as in the diverse vehicle construction sector. In addition, the locations of the coal-fired power plants, which are to be shut down by 2023 according to the coalition agreement, could offer good conditions for the production and storage of hydrogen due to the existing grids for electricity and heat there. All these points speak for the fact that the state of Bremen can play an important role in the northwest within the framework of the upcoming energy turnaround, also and especially with regard to the production and use of green hydrogen and the development of a hydrogen economy.