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The federal government is threatened with a dispute with the heating and gas industries over the use of the climate-neutral energy carrier hydrogen.
According to politicians, the gas, made from water and green electricity, should preferably be used in the steel industry, in air and heavy goods traffic.
But industry representatives fear that it may not be used for heating.
"Unfortunately we have heard more and more statements from your ministry according to which the heating market is to be served with significantly lower priority," said a fire letter from the Federal Association of the Heating Industry (BDH) and several representatives of the gas industry to Federal Economics Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU).
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Hydrogen is considered the "champagne of the energy transition"
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The associations are annoyed that the federal government wants to practically quota the production of the hydrogen industry that is currently being built up.
As long as the fuel, which is also known as the “champagne of the energy transition”, is scarce and expensive, it should not be used in the building sector.
Here politicians are primarily focusing on heat pumps powered by green electricity.
A mistake, believe the heating engineers and gas associations.
"The market entry barriers for the use of hydrogen in the building sector are significantly lower than in other sectors," they argue: "Because while the building sector can be supplied directly with the existing gas infrastructure, a comprehensive infrastructure in the transport sector has yet to be created."
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Hydrogen can easily be fed into the gas network with a share of up to 20 percent.
"Tenants and homeowners are not burdened in this way, since there are no replacement costs", advertise the associations.
This would avoid higher rents.
In addition, the use of hydrogen in the building sector creates a mass market that would quickly reduce the cost of the fuel.
In the medium term, natural gas could be completely replaced by hydrogen.
The letter from the associations BDH, FNB Gas, ASUE, Zukunft Gas and DVGW is addressed to the responsible Minister Peter Altmaier.
However, resistance is more likely to come from the house of Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD): She recently emphasized at a conference: "The priority is hydrogen for industry."
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Source: Welt am Sonntag