{"id":3623,"date":"2020-11-10T21:11:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/h2-netzwerk-ruhr.de\/minister-pinkwart-presents-nrw-hydrogen-roadmap\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:31:13","slug":"minister-pinkwart-presents-nrw-hydrogen-roadmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/h2-netzwerk-ruhr.de\/en\/minister-pinkwart-presents-nrw-hydrogen-roadmap\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Pinkwart presents NRW hydrogen roadmap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Up to 130,000 new jobs are expected<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, November 9, 2020, NRW Minister of Economic Affairs Andreas Pinkwart presented the roadmap for expanding the hydrogen economy in NRW. With this, NRW is setting specific expansion targets for industry, mobility, and energy and infrastructure. Minister Pinkwart assumes that consistent implementation of the hydrogen roadmap can reduce industry greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter and that up to 130,000 new jobs can be created in North Rhine-Westphalia.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volker Lindner, Chairman of the\nh2-netzwerk-ruhr e.V., welcomes the state government\u2019s announcement\nand notes that it is \u201can important addition to the strategy\nof the Federal Government, which sets clear targets for NRW\n.\u201d Lindner hopes that the newly planned pilot projects will also be implemented\non a larger scale in the Ruhr region. In this\ncontext, he refers to the initiative of the Westphalian\nUniversity of Applied Sciences, WiN Emscher-Lippe and the h2-netzwerk-ruhr to\nset up an operational research center for large-scale electrolyzers in the\nnorthern Ruhr region; this\nis explicitly mentioned in the roadmap under the heading &#8220;Hydrogen Lab Ruhr&#8221;\n. After all,\naccording to the roadmap, one to three gigawatts\nof electrolysis capacity are to be established in NRW by 2030.   \n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find the full announcement and the link to the NRW hydrogen roadmap here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energieagentur.nrw\/brennstoffzelle\/nrw-wirtschaftsministerium_stellt_wasserstoff-roadmap_vor\">https:\/\/www.energieagentur.nrw\/brennstoffzelle\/nrw-wirtschaftsministerium_stellt_wasserstoff-roadmap_vor<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Title photo: NRW Minister of Economic Affairs Andreas Pinkwart assumes that consistent implementation of the hydrogen roadmap can reduce industry greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter. Photo: IN4climate.NRW  <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 130,000 new jobs are expected On Monday, November 9, 2020, NRW Minister of Economic Affairs Andreas Pinkwart presented the roadmap for expanding the hydrogen economy in NRW. 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