Germany must speed hydrogen plans this year - gas pipeline group OGE

OGE Energy

18/01/2023 13:19

FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Germany must
rev up the speed of a hydrogen law revision, which is pending in
Berlin, to allow for related investments in gas transport
networks up to the end of the decade, said the head of the
biggest gas pipeline operator, Open Grid Europe (OGE).
    "I would like the revision of the hydrogen strategy update
to be completed in the first quarter of 2023," said OGE chief
Joerg Bergmann in an interview with Reuters during his
appearance at the annual Handelsblatt Energy Summit 2023.
    "Investment decisions have to be taken now, ideally by the
summer, because adjusting and expanding pipelines to carry
hydrogen needs between around three and six years," he said.
 (Reporting by Vera Eckert and Tom Kaeckenhoff, editing by
Rachel More)
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