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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.