Germany

Media (press releases, news articles and other publications)

Berlin Wants 250 Hydrogen Buses - 18 July - United Press International
Every fifth bus in Berlin will be powered by hydrogen by 2009, according to officials from the city's mass transit company.

Links to websites for hydrogen and fuel cell policy, research programs,
and hydrogen associations:

Research Programme:

--- The 5th Energy Research Programme of the Federal Government:

     -- English Version

     -- German Version

Federal Ministries: 

--- Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology

--- Federal Ministry of Transport, Building & Urban Affairs

--- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety  

--- Federal Ministry of Education and Research

--- Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food, Agriculture and Consumer
    Production

National Coordination Office:

--- German National Coordination Office for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Associations:

--- German Hydrogen Association

--- Fuel Cell Partnership Germany (BZB)

--- Initiative Fuel Cell (IBZ)

--- Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Network North-Rhine Westphalia

--- WIBA – Coordination Centre of the Bavarian Hydrogen Initiative

--- Fuel Cell Initiative of Baden Wuerttemberg

Project links:

--- Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) in Berlin

--- ERA-NET HY-CO

--- “Fuel Cell Box” School Students’ Competition

IPHE Member Country Statements:

--- Germany Statement – ILC Committee Meeting – Seoul, Korea

--- Germany Statement – ILC Meeting – Oxford, England

--- Germany Statement – Steering Committee Meeting – Reykjavik, Iceland

--- Germany Statement – Steering Committee Meeting – Kyoto, Japan
     
--- Germany Statement - ILC Committee Meeting – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

--- Germany Statement - Steering Committee Meeting – Paris, France

--- Germany Statement - ILC Meeting - Reisensburg, Germany

--- Ministerial Statement - IPHE Inaugural Ministerial Meeting - Washington, DC

IPHE Member country reports and road maps related to hydrogen and fuel cell policy, research and development:
 

 “National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Innovation Programme", 8 May 2006
    -- English version
    -- German Version

“National Development Plan Version 2.1” for the “Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Innovation Programme”, 30 April 2007
    -- English version
    -- German Version

 "Strategy Report on Research Needs in the Field of Hydrogen Energy Technology"
     -- English version
     -- German Version