Germany set its goals high when it came to hydrogen: „We want to become the world’s number one in hydrogen technologies,“ said Peter Altmaier, Germany’s Economy Minister at the time, last year. But now it turns out that German industry has a hard time with approvals under the European Hydrogen IPCEI. For a third of the projects applied for, the German government has to look for other funding opportunities. However, the industry does not only see this as a disadvantage, as Manuel Berkel reports.