June 2

In Russia, 10% of urban and intercity passenger transport should be converted to hydrogen by 2030, such plans were confirmed by the Ministry of Energy. Experimental hydrogen buses will appear in Moscow this year, reports "Rossiyskaya Gazeta".

Plans to create filling stations for hydrogen transport will also be implemented. “To date, we have adopted a plan for the development of refueling infrastructure on electricity and hydrogen. REA is one of the centers of competence for the implementation of this plan,” said Alexey Kulapin, head of the Russian Energy Agency (REA) under the Ministry of Energy of Russia at the session of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (quoted by TASS). Subsidies will be allocated to the regions of Russia for the creation of electric filling infrastructure. Domestic manufacturers are working on the creation of hydrogen buses. The first samples of them will soon begin to ply the streets of Moscow in an experimental mode.

More than a hundred Russian scientific and industrial organizations are able to participate in the creation of hydrogen transport. The Ministry of Industry and Trade has formed a collection of Russian competencies of the hydrogen industry. In it you can find up-to-date information about Russian developments in the industry. “More than a hundred Russian scientific and industrial organizations in more than thirty subjects of the Russian Federation have competencies in the field of the hydrogen industry,” the agency comments. For example, as previously stated by representatives of KAMAZ, the company will continue to develop hydrogen transport and plans to deliver an experimental batch of water buses to Moscow approximately in the fourth quarter of 2022. According to Sergey Kogogin, General Director of KAMAZ, it is first necessary to test the technology and only then transfer it to Mosgortrans for trial operation.

The regions are also actively discussing the program of transition to eco-friendly transport. For example, Sakhalin will host the Far Eastern Environmental Transport Forum in July, where the development of hydrogen transport will be discussed.

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