Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Source: BMWK/Dominik Butzmann
Federal Minister Robert Habeck is visiting the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) in Berlin today. On site, he will inform himself about two competence centres on hydrogen and wind energy that BAM operates. As part of its mission to further develop safety in technology and chemistry, BAM focuses on technologies that advance the transformation of the economy and the energy transition.
Minister Habeck thanks the employees of BAM for their dedicated work and emphasises during his visit: "The transformation of our national economy is an urgent task of our time - the last few months have made that abundantly clear. To achieve this, we need innovations that not only guarantee more sustainability, environmental and climate protection, but also more safety. BAM is researching this and thus making an important contribution to the transformation, which it passes on to science and industry. BAM's work on hydrogen and wind energy in particular helps to advance these key technologies of the energy transition. "
Together with BAM President Prof. Dr. Ulrich Panne, Minister Habeck is today signing a target agreement between the BMWK and BAM, which defines the focal points and objectives of work for the coming years. Here, the focus is particularly on future topics such as hydrogen technologies, wind energy, electrical energy storage, 3D printing and nanomaterials.
"With the target agreement, we are creating good framework conditions for BAM's work. With our two competence centres H2Safety@BAM and Wind@BAM in particular, we can accelerate the energy transition effectively and safely at the same time. We are making a contribution to ensuring that future hydrogen pipelines and other infrastructures can be designed H2-ready and that the expansion of wind turbines with higher output is technically secure," says BAM President Prof. Dr Ulrich Panne.
BAM is a scientific and technical higher federal authority with around 1,600 employees in the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection. BAM bundles its expertise in competence centres. In the H2Safety@BAM competence centre, scientists conduct research across the entire value chain on the safety of modern hydrogen technologies and drive the market ramp-up through knowledge and technology transfer. To this end, a test and trial infrastructure unique in Germany is being built on twelve square kilometres south of Berlin. Among other things, the Wind@BAM centre of excellence is concerned with the durability and stability of large and powerful wind turbines and is researching how large amounts of CO2 can be saved already during the construction of such turbines.