Approach 

To achieve this aim, several work packages will be conducted to determine which boundary conditions are required in order to facilitate a market for hydrogen and derived products in Germany. The local production of hydrogen in Germany (particularly in the Salzgitter region) is compared here with the import of various hydrogen-transport media from countries around the world. Depending on the production location under investigation, the hydrogen transport (e.g. via pipelines and by sea) to the Salzgitter region is always evaluated here as well. The generation is evaluated through the determination of the production costs of green hydrogen by modeling future electricity production costs. In addition to the electricity price, the future development of the investment costs of electrolyzer systems is thereby taken into account. By means of a sensitivity analysis of all cost factors, the hydrogen production costs are calculated in differing scenarios.