Lower Saxony's Minister of Economic Affairs, Lies, agrees to participate in HUSUM WIND

Olaf Lies, Minister for Economy, transport, construction and digitization in Lower Saxony, has its Participation in the opening ceremony of HUSUM WIND with Robert Habeck on September 12, 2023 confirmed. Lower Saxony is the official partner state of the this year's edition of the trade fair. "HUSUM WIND has been providing a important contribution to the transformation of our energy system. Than As an established meeting place for the wind energy industry, it brings national and international players to bring together the latest developments in the industry Introduce. We are therefore very pleased to be the official partner country of HUSUM in 2023. WIND," says Lower Saxony's Minister of Economic Affairs, Olaf Lies.

In the expansion of renewable energies, Lower Saxony and the other northern German states are playing a pioneering role. One in five kilowatt hour generated in Germany from renewable sources is 'Made in Lower Saxony'. With a share of renewable energies in the Lower Saxony also has gross electricity consumption of over 90 percent in 2022 a high regenerative potential for the production of green hydrogen. Olaf Lies explains: "As early as 2019, we worked with the joint North German Hydrogen strategy, goals and needs for action in this for the Transformation of the economy is an important set of topics. Today we benefit from this foresight: Northern Germany and the North Sea and Baltic Sea, as the power plant for renewable energy, offer a huge potential that we will use efficiently and quickly. This is because the rapid expansion of the on- and Offshore wind energy and the development of a comprehensive hydrogen economy are crucial prerequisites for achieving national climate targets. achieve. Here, Lower Saxony will play a central role in the future of the German energy supply as a whole." By 2040, Lower Saxony wants to its energy requirements are entirely from renewable sources cover.