Green hydrogen is a key to many countries and continental communities achieving climate neutrality. The EU, the US, Canada, Argentina and Japan among others want to be climate-neutral by 2050, and China has set itself this aim by 2060. Global demand for hydrogen will rise significantly in the coming years and, as an international logistics specialist with over 40 years of experience in handling and transporting hydrogen, the Hoyer Group is equipped for this development.
Hydrogen (H2) is already used today as a heating and engine fuel, and as a raw material. One hydrogen is not the same as another: colour codes indicate the production process, which can also be based on fossil energy sources. Currently, this is still the most usual process. Only so-called green hydrogen produced by using renewable energies to electrolyse water counts as emission-free. A distinction is also made when providing hydrogen for onward distribution and use. Thus H2 can be transported as a gas compressed under high pressure (compressed gaseous hydrogen, GH2), or as hydrogen cryogenically liquefied at -253°C (liquid hydrogen, LH2).
Many of the world’s countries have developed a hydrogen strategy that provides for the expansion and building of plants to generate green energy. Moreover, a few countries in Northern Europe, Africa, North and South America and Australia are striving towards an export strategy for hydrogen. In the case of the regional production of hydrogen, transport logistics are carried out in most cases via road transport using special equipment. Hoyer has around 100 operational trucks on the road on a daily basis for its customers in the present European core market, and carries both GH2 and LH2 mainly for the chemical industry. However, we assume that the transport sector will catch up, and our service station logistics will come into greater use.
Whereas employing hydrogen as a supplier of heat and in energy systems is also being discussed with regard to the future, it is already clear that using H2 will be a critical success factor to decarbonise industry and transport. We look forward to this development with excitement. Many changes lie ahead through the increased use of hydrogen, which we can and will accompany and support through our know-how. We see this market as one of our central growth areas, and we are ready for it.
Björn Schniederkötter, CEO, Hoyer Group
