As Switzerland adopts national hydrogen strategy, Axpo and partners launch new production plant

As Switzerland adopts national hydrogen strategy, Axpo and partners launch new production plant

Offshore-Energy.biz | Aida Čučuk | December 16, 2024

Switzerland’s Federal Council has adopted the national hydrogen strategy. It contains the Council’s mission statement and objectives for hydrogen and power-to-x (PtX) derivatives and proposes measures for developing the domestic hydrogen market and connecting it to the European market. The strategy was announced on December 13, 2024, the same day that Swiss renewable energy company Axpo and its partners Schätzle, EWA-Energie Uri and SGV Holding broke ground on the site of a new hydrogen production plant to be constructed by H2Uri, a company in which all four partners are shareholders.

As disclosed, the national strategy, which assumes low demand for hydrogen in Switzerland until the mid-2030s, was developed by an internal administrative support group, an external working group and in exchange with the gas industry and the cantons, and its basis is the report ‘Hydrogen. Overview and options for action for Switzerland,’ which the Federal Council adopted on November 15, 2023.

Hydrogen and power-to-x derivatives are said to be flexible energy sources that could contribute to a fossil-free energy supply by 2050, and reportedly, the strategy aims to create the necessary framework conditions for this. The prerequisite is that hydrogen from CO2-neutral production processes is used, the Council pointed out, adding that it should be used where it makes economic and ecological sense.

The Council further stated: “In addition to domestic production and storage, the connection to the European hydrogen transport network is to be ensured and imports are to be strengthened through international cooperation and partnerships. The hydrogen infrastructure is to be developed along the entire value chain (production, conversion, transport, storage and refueling infrastructure) and Switzerland is to be strengthened as a location for education and innovation through the development of the necessary technologies.” more
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Wasserstoffstrategie für die Schweiz
newsd.admin.ch | Bern, 13. Dezember 2024

Mit Wasserstoff einen Beitrag zur klimaneutralen Energieversorgung leisten Der Bundesrat hat in Erfüllung der Motionen 20.4406 («Grüne Wasserstoffstrategie für die Schweiz») und 22.3376 («Strategie für Wasserstoff in der Schweiz») die vorliegende Wasserstoffstrategie erarbeiten lassen. Die Strategie zeigt auf, welche Rolle Wasserstoff als Energieträger in der Schweizer Energieund Klimapolitik bis 2035 und 2050 einnehmen kann und welche Massnahmen den Aufbau eines Wasserstoffmarktes und die Anbindung an die europäische Wasserstofftransportinfrastruktur unterstützen. Sie legt weiter dar, welche Rollen dem Bund, den Kantonen, den Städten sowie der Energiebranche und der Wirtschaft zukommen. Dabei wird die gesamte Wertschöpfungskette von Wasserstoff und von sogenannten Power-to-X-Derivaten (PtX-Derivaten)1 betrachtet. Grundlage für die Strategie ist der Bericht
«Wasserstoff. Auslegeordnung und Handlungsoptionen für die Schweiz», den der Bundesrat im November 2023 in Erfüllung des Postulats 20.4709 verabschiedet hat, sowie weitere Studien zum Thema.2 - More
https://www.newsd.admin.ch/newsd/message/attachments/91122.pdf

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this important development any day now...