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Daimler, LInde, OMV open new hydrogen station in Germany

Daimler, Linde, and OMV Deutschland have inaugurated a new hydrogen station in the German city of Metzingen expanding the country’s hydrogen infrastructure particularly in the Stuttgart metropolitan region.



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Author: PetrolPlaza Correspondent Daniel Infante Tuaño

The new hydrogen station located at Auchtertstraße 19 in Metzingen is part of the three companies’ Clean Energy Partnership. It is also one of the 50 hydrogen filling stations supported by the Federal Ministry of Transport with a funding worth about 28 million euros.

According to a company release, the inauguration was attended by Norbert Barthle, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, and Ministerial Director Helmfried Meinel of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for the Environment, Climate and Energy, along with representatives from Daimler, Linde, and OMV.

Daimler and Linde have also invested around EUR 20 million within the National Innovation Programme for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology, and together with OMV the first public hydrogen filling station in Baden-Württemberg at Stuttgart airport was launched in 2009.

"Hydrogen- and fuel cell-based technology opens up great opportunities for protecting the environment and the climate, and is an important element in ensuring the success of the transition to renewables. I firmly believe that hydrogen is the storage medium of the future, across multiple sectors,” Meinel said.

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