“We are providing our infrastructure in advance”

Dirk Flandrich, program manager at Flow – making hydrogen happen, talks about the conversion of the network and the next steps for hydrogen infrastructure.

Hydrogen is considered the key to a climate-neutral future – but without the right infrastructure, it remains nothing more than a promise. Episode 15 of the podcast ‘Was die Welt zusammenhält – Der Infrastruktur-Podcast’ by NeulandQuartier addresses precisely this challenge: How can we convert our natural gas network to transport hydrogen?

The podcast guest is Dirk Flandrich, program manager of Flow – making hydrogen happen at GASCADE. In the Flow – making hydrogen happen program, the conversion from natural gas to hydrogen has already been implemented on an initial section of pipeline, laying the foundation for the hydrogen supply of the future.

In the podcast, Flandrich talks about how this works technically, who is involved and what is still needed politically. He also explains how hydrogen is to flow through Germany and what still needs to be done to achieve this.

Flandrich explains why infrastructure must be developed in advance, where regulatory challenges lie and what is needed to ensure that hydrogen can be reliably transported from coastal regions to industrial centres in the south in the future.

Listen now and find out how hydrogen really gets into the grid (German language version only):

The podcast ‚Was die Welt zusammenhält – Der Infrastruktur-Podcast‘ is also available on podcast platforms.