Saxony-Anhalt forms the core of the Central German chemical triangle. The Who's Who of the international chemical industry is at home here. And in Leuna, the company Linde is currently building the world's largest PEM electrolyser. So a lot of green electricity is needed, and the signs are sunny here, too. Solar Valley is a world-renowned centre and, with a 58 per cent share of electricity generation, Germany's front-runner.

At the Bitterfeld-Wolfen Chemical Park, partners from science and industry are investigating how methanol and methanol derivatives can be produced from waste gases and green hydrogen. The Chemical Park is already cooperating with the Norwegian company "Statkraft". Nobian (formerly Axo Nobell) is the first company in Germany to supply green hydrogen from chlor-alkali electrolysis.

The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) is funding the "Real Laboratory of the Energy Transition": At the Bad Lauchstädt energy park near Leipzig, electricity is converted into hydrogen with a 30-megawatt electrolyser. The hydrogen is transported to the Leuna Chemical Park via a former natural gas pipeline. Incidentally, the Finnish company UPM is also based here.

Solar Center: More than 9 billion euros have been invested in Solar Valley by international investors since 1991. This has enabled the region to establish itself as a centre of excellence for industry-related research, renewable energies and storage technologies. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Center for Silicon Photovoltaics (CSP) in Halle develop technologies, manufacturing processes and product concepts along the entire photovoltaic value chain for global companies.

Numerous companies are working on the production of synthetic fuels, the so-called e-fuels. The Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz GmbH (CAC) corporation has developed a synthetic fuel together with the TU Bergakademie Freiberg with which every vehicle that has a gasoline or spark ignition engine can actually be driven in a climate friendly manner. The dream of “green” flight is being realized by the EDL Anlagenbau GmbH corporation in Leipzig with the HyKero project by producing a sustainable avia-tion fuel with the help of renewable electric power.

The region joins forces to create unique projects, also the Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI). With LHyVe - Leipzig Hydrogen Value Chain for Europe - will be established an intelligent and regionally networked green hydrogen system as a beacon for efficient sector coupling. 

Sunfire Dresden in Dresden is a key company for the regional hydrogen economy: The company develops and produces particularly efficient high-temperature electrolysers (SOEC) as well as proven alkali plants and is involved in ambitious large-scale projects, such as the construction of the world's first megawatt-class high-temperature electrolyser in Rotterdam. In addition, the hydrogen trader HINT.CO has set up shop in Leipzig to enable investment in "green" hydrogen and gradually build up a functioning market for eco-hydrogen.

Saxony is broadly positioned in the research sector. With the HIC - Hydrogen & Mobility Innovation Center, one of four German hydrogen technology centres will be created in Chemnitz by 2025 with an industrial research, testing and certification campus for fuel cells and drive systems for hydrogen-powered road and rail vehicles that is unique in Europe.

A wide range of public funding programmes are available to companies in Saxony for new investments, innovations, R&D and job creation - €600 million until 2027 for technology funding alone. The Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB) provides companies with comprehensive advice on this.