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Czech hydrogen strategy

07.08.2021

The Czech government approved the Hydrogen Strategy prepared by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and based on four main areas: production of low-carbon hydrogen, low-carbon use of hydrogen, transportation and storage of hydrogen, hydrogen technologies.

"The goal of the strategy, among other things, is to accelerate the development and subsequent implementation of economically affordable hydrogen technologies," said Silvana Jirotkova, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade. "The Czech Republic should have ambitions to become an important exporter in this area in the future."

"The question of how to use hydrogen depends mainly on price, so we must look for ways to minimize costs and maximize efficiency by replacing fossil fuels with hydrogen," added Peter Merwart, Hydrogen Minister's Plenipotentiary for Industry and Trade. "Our goal is to create in the Czech Republic a new low-carbon economy that will gradually replace an economy heavily dependent on fossil fuels that will gradually decline."

The Czech Republic, together with other Member States, has committed to achieving climate neutrality by 2050. The hydrogen strategy is one of the important tools to achieve this goal.

Due to the geographical position of the Czech Republic, not only renewable energy sources were taken into account, but also other sources that can produce low-carbon hydrogen.

Among the companies already working in this direction, the utility group CEZ is developing up to 15 projects for the production and use of hydrogen, and in six of them it is already taking concrete steps, especially in the field of using hydrogen in public transport. In addition, the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague has an accredited curriculum focused on hydrogen technology, and the region of Usti nad Labem is the first Czech region with a developed network of filling stations, three of which will be put into operation in the near future.

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