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Germany’s Audit Court Calls Time on Hydrogen Inevitability

Germany’s Audit Court Calls Time on Hydrogen Inevitability
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The October 2025 special report from Germany’s Federal Audit Court, Implementation of the Federal Government’s Hydrogen Strategy, lands with unusual weight because it is not a policy critique or an academic intervention, but a statutory budgetary assessment delivered to Parliament. It evaluates the hydrogen strategy against the legal requirements of … [continued]

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When Europe’s Economic Institutions Step Away From Hydrogen

Germany’s Audit Court Calls Time on Hydrogen Inevitability
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Germany’s Council of Economic Experts, working jointly with France’s Conseil d’analyse économique, has already stepped away from hydrogen as a broad energy carrier, and that shift sits uneasily alongside a 400 km pressurized segment of Germany’s hydrogen backbone with no suppliers and no customers. The joint guidance from these two … [continued]

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From Optimistic Models To Empty Pipelines: The Intellectual History Of Germany’s Hydrogen Backbone

From Optimistic Models To Empty Pipelines: The Intellectual History Of Germany’s Hydrogen Backbone
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Germany’s hydrogen backbone now exists as steel in the ground and pressurized pipe, but the more important infrastructure was laid long before any trench was dug. That infrastructure was intellectual. A long sequence of studies, models, and policy-facing analyses created the impression that large scale hydrogen for energy use was … [continued]

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