Air Products (AP) recently received funding from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) to build two high-capacity, publicly accessible, low-carbon H2 Stations in Duisburg and Meckenheim.

The two stations will be located near APs’ current German headquarters in Hattingen. With the funding received, AP will build, own and operate the two H2 Stations capable of fueling a range of vehicles including medium and heavy-duty classes. Supplied with the company’s own H2, the stations will offer a network of reliable and fast H2 for trucks in Germany.

Funding for the stations was made available as part of NRW’s H2 roadmap. NRW has set ambitious goals to decarbonize heavy-duty transportation and has set a target of having 11,000 H2 fuel cell trucks in the region by 2030. NRW also has set additional 2030 goals of having 3,800 fuel cell buses for public transportation and 200 hydrogen fueling stations.