The search for cooperation partners is ongoing: “Of course, Lower Austria is a good choice because of its own initiatives and the structures that exist there,” says Hermann.
At a meeting on Thursday in the State Chancellery in Munich, the cooperation was taken a step further, as both sides emphasized. Lower Austria is dependent on cooperation partners because it will not develop its own hydrogen strategy. Rather, they want to act as a “door opener and hub” to bring companies together.
natural gas phase-out
For this reason, state politics was accompanied on the two-day trip to Bavaria by a business delegation led by WKNÖ boss Wolfgang Ecker and Helmut Miernicki, agency boss of “ecoplus”. Eight companies also took part in the trip.
The importance of investments in hydrogen technology has become explosive with the Ukraine war: “We want to reduce our dependence on Russian natural gas, because 80 percent of our requirements currently come from Russia.
That won’t happen overnight, but hydrogen will be an essential building block,” said the provincial councillor.