Establishment of Austria’s First Regional Green Hydrogen Economy: WIVA P&G HyWest

Nikolaus Fleischhacker (), Niusha Shakibi Nia (), Markus Coll, Ewald Perwög, Helmut Schreiner, Andreas Burger, Emmanuel Stamatakis and Ernst Fleischhacker
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Nikolaus Fleischhacker: FEN Research GmbH (FEN Research), Green Energy Center Europe, Technikerstraße 1-3, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Niusha Shakibi Nia: FEN Research GmbH (FEN Research), Green Energy Center Europe, Technikerstraße 1-3, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Markus Coll: FEN Sustain Systems GmbH (FEN Systems), Green Energy Center Europe, Technikerstraße 1-3, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Ewald Perwög: MPREIS Warenvertriebs GmbH (MPREIS), 9900 Lienz, Austria
Helmut Schreiner: Zillertaler Verkehrsbetriebe AG, Austraße 1, 6200 Jenbach, Austria
Andreas Burger: TIWAG-Next Energy Solutions GmbH, Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz 2, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Emmanuel Stamatakis: FEN Research GmbH (FEN Research), Green Energy Center Europe, Technikerstraße 1-3, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Ernst Fleischhacker: FEN Sustain Systems GmbH (FEN Systems), Green Energy Center Europe, Technikerstraße 1-3, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 9, 1-18

Abstract: The regional parliament of Tyrol in Austria adopted the climate, energy, and resources strategy “Tyrol 2050 energy autonomous” in 2014 with the aim to become climate neutral and energy autonomous. “Use of own resources before others do, or have to do” is the main principle within this long-term strategic approach, in which the “ power on demand ” process is a main building block and the “ power-to-hydrogen ” process covers the intrinsic lack of a long-term, large-scale storage of electricity. Within this long-term strategy, the national research and development (R&D) flagship project WIVA P&G HyWest (ongoing since 2018) aims at the establishment of the first sustainable, business-case-driven, regional, green hydrogen economy in central Europe. This project is mainly based on the logistic principle and is a result of synergies between three ongoing complementary implementation projects. Among these three projects, to date, the industrial research within “MPREIS Hydrogen” resulted in the first green hydrogen economy. One hydrogen truck is operational as of January 2023 in the region of Tyrol for food distribution and related monitoring studies have been initiated. To fulfil the logistic principle as the main outcome, another two complementary projects are currently being further implemented.

Keywords: green hydrogen economy; green mobility; green industry; energy autonomy; circular economy; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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