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The National Laboratory for Renewable Energies, the University of Debrecen, has also been established
Hungary is meeting the energy and climate policy goals significantly faster than it has undertaken, so the 2030 targets can be reached by 2024 and the 2050 targets by the end of the decade – the Minister of Technology and Industry is moving at the Baranya county seat. .
László Palkovics highlighted in his presentation at the opening event of the National Laboratory of Renewable Energies (MENL) at the University of Pécs (PTE): The share of renewable energy produced in Hungary is constantly increasing, The role of the EU is also enhanced by a number of measures.
As he said, several joint actions ahead of us are needed to enable Hungary to meet the energy challenges of the future. On the one hand, it is necessary to increase energy sovereignty in the field of natural gas and electricity, to meet higher energy demand, but at the same time to save energy by reducing the energy consumption of residential and public buildings, as well as to meet climate protection goals. a minister.
He believed that in the future there should be an increasing emphasis on the development of the electricity grid, the increase of energy storage capacity, and the use of innovative technologies, such as the hydrogen ecosystem.
In connection with the latter, he emphasized the need to create an environment of incentives and support, and the government will also use its own means to increase hydrogen production, the spread of hydrogen-based transport and related industrial developments.
As he said, the role of geothermal energy is also being appreciated by the current energy policy challenges, with up to 1.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas expected to be generated in this area after a 5-8 year upswing.
László György, Secretary of State for Innovation at the Ministry of Culture and Innovation, said the government would double spending on higher education despite the Crown and the war so that “the largest university development of the last 650 years” could take place in the coming years in a € 2.7 trillion infrastructure development . .
In his opinion, the development of higher education is also necessary in order to preserve jobs, create new ones, strengthen the economy, and ensure demographic and environmental sustainability.
Attila Miseta, rector of PTE, said that with the help of the university model change, they had formulated goals that PTE had previously advocated. Such is that the university must play an increasing role in the economic development of the city, the county and the region. He added that the formation of MENL fits well into this process.
Csaba Janáky, associate professor of the Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science at the University of Szeged (SZTE), the professional head of MENL, said that hydrogen energy has a serious raison d’être in terms of industry and mobility. He added that MENL’s mission is to make significant progress in research and development, education and services.
In its press release on the event, PTE recalled that in order to form MENL, a consortium was formed in 2022 with the leadership of the Pécs institution and the participation of nine universities and research centers. RRF).
MENL focuses on two main focus areas, hydrogen technology and two carbon programs, as, as indicated in the press,
“With the growing concern about global warming and security of supply for fossil fuels, there is a growing focus on the exploitation and storage of renewable energy sources.”
The consortium partners will build low-foot energy technologies over the next 3.5 years, in particular the scientific and technological, legal, economic and industrial protection bases for the production, transport, storage and use of hydrogen and the recovery of carbon dioxide.
According to the press release, the two technology groups can play a significant role in strengthening the security of domestic supply by supporting each other in parallel.
The project is implemented by the ten consortium partners – PTE, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, University of Debrecen, Energy Research Center, University of Miskolc, János Neumann University, University of Pannon, University of Szeged, Széchenyi István University Center for Natural Sciences.