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Founding members include:
- AREVA H2gen
- BERLINER STADTREINIGUNGSBETRIEBE (BSR)
- BERLINER STADTWERKE
- BERLINER WASSERBETRIEBE (BWB)
- GASAG
- s-H2
- VATTENFALL
Board of Directors:
Dr. Jörg Buisset, s-H2 (Chairman), Ulrike Franzke, BWB (Vice Chairman), Markus Witt, Vattenfall (Treasurer), Wolfgang Wüllhorst, BSR

For this purpose, H2Berlin identifies in a first step a cross-company and cross-sector use "show case" as a hydrogen lighthouse project and initiates it. In the course of this, H2Berlin drafts a hydrogen roadmap that can be used as a strategic basis for the capital. This roadmap will include further projects that will help scale the hydrogen economy and infrastructure in the metropolitan region.

In order to meet the climate goals, “green” hydrogen increasingly appears indispensable. According to experts from science and industry, an economically efficient energy transition with adequate supply security will not be possible without the development of a hydrogen infrastructure.
This especially applies to the metropolis Berlin. Brandenburg is making the transition. “After coal comes hydrogen”, announced the Minister President. How should Berlin position itself in the context of the structural change in Brandenburg? What does this mean in the context of the historical importance of Lausitz as the capital’s central energy supplier? How will the BER airport be supplied with synthetic kerosene? How will it be possible to make Berlin’s biggest CO2 emitters, the heating sector, climate-neutral? What does the infrastructure for hydrogen powered public transport look like? What would be the first steps for the development of a hydrogen economy? What would its roadmap look like? What are the most economically effective levers?  What are the quick wins?
The goal of H2Berlin is to bring together the capital’s progressive economic players around a table and discuss what the hydrogen infrastructure of the future would look like and how a hydrogen economy in Berlin could be built.
Kickoff participants have been the leading utility suppliers and disposers Vattenfall, Gasag, Berliner Wasserbetriebe and Berliner Stadtwerke (garbage management BSR and public transportation BVG are expected to join in two weeks). Our partners, the initiative HyCologne from NRW, the NOW GmbH and the DWV supported us to make a success of the first round table on January 28, 2020.
Next steps are a demand and market analysis for business applications of sustainable hydrogen and the identification of first "low hanging fruits".

With its quarterly series of colloquia, our service unit HERE will provide a forum for the exchange between financial service providers, politicians, and representatives from industry, in order to develop infrastructure solutions for securing the energy transition in Europe. We clarify how, and with what concrete initiatives, the exit from the fossil fuel society can be achieved together with the aid of hydrogen from renewable energies, and how they can be prepared as alternative investments for the financial services industry. With this task force we launch selected initiatives and report on progress and new investment potential.

• Pitch, Barcamp Sector Coupling on joint event of the Energy Technology Cluster, the ICT, Media and Creative Industries Cluster and the Transport, Mobility and Logistics Cluster as well as the Berlin Agency for Electromobility and THE DRIVERY, Nov. 26th 2020
• Impuls lecture at the action week Berlin saves energy of the Berlin senate administration for Environment, Transport and Climate, Nov. 9th-14th 2020
• Impuls lecture, Production and Use of Green Hydrogen event of the county Elbe Elster, Okt. 29th 2020
• Keynote speech, Custer Energy Technology Berlin Brandenburg Conference, Oct. 6th, 2020
• Interview Berlin Business Talks: "Determining the potential of hydrogen applications in Berlin in 2025" Aug. 8th 2020

This is the result of our study based on the model of the research center Jülich. The amount is required in the energy system to enable Berlin to achieve its objectives towards climate neutrality in 2050 on the path of energy system transformation at optimized costs.
Lower hydrogen consumption would lead to unnecessary expenditure.
The city now needs to take action.
If the current coverage of launched hydrogen projects is not enlarged, the city will have a hydrogen consumption of 37 tonnes per annum in 2025. The Senate Administration, Berlin Partner, InfraLab Berlin, NOW GmbH, HyCologne and DWV will support to fill this extensive gap.
In the next few months, H2Berlin will develop a show case for the capital city, spanning companies and sectors along the entire value chain, in a dimension that will enable the necessary hydrogen economy to be activated. Further information can be found in the study.