4th Meeting of the WG2 "New Green Energy Technologies"

Following the meeting of the WG1 on “Energy Transition”, the 4th meeting of the Working Group on “New Green Energy Technologies” took place in Berlin on December 6th.

The MOTIE and the BMWK discussed recent policy developments in the respective partner country such as the newly introduced policy measures to support the domestic hydrogen industry by the Korean government. Moreover, the German ministry shared its current efforts regarding the deployment of green hydrogen projects in light of the spiking energy prices. The meeting then focused on hydrogen certification schemes. An overview over national and international initiatives for clean and green H2-certification was given via a presentation from adelphi. This was followed by presentations from dena and H2-Korea and a discussion on the specific cases of Korea and Germany/in the EU. 
Overall, representatives of the ministries welcomed the active work of the working group and praised the success of the implemented formats. Both sides are looking forward to future cooperation and the upcoming meetings.