By 2037, Germany aims to establish a hydrogen backbone network built by private companies and fully financed through user fees. The government reached this agreement on Friday. The project could be discussed and approved in the Bundestag in the coming weeks. It involves expenditures of around 20 billion euros for a 10,000-kilometer-long network. Sixty percent of the network could be created using repurposed natural gas pipelines, while the remainder would need to be built anew.