Press releases 2025

29.04.2025

DBFZ publishes comprehensive monitoring of renewable energies in transport

The European Union and large parts of the world are pursuing the ambitious goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest. With an average of 20 % of annual greenhouse gas emissions, the transport sector has a key role to play. The DBFZ, in cooperation with the Technology and Support Centre (TFZ), the Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH), the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the Fraunhofer Centre for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes (CBP), has compiled a comprehensive monitoring report on the topic of ‘Renewable energies in transport’. The study, which has now been published and is freely available, describes the current status of the energy transition in the transport sector in Germany, Europe and worldwide. Read more

19.03.2025

From biogenic residues to renewable methane and green hydrogen: DBFZ puts modern pilot plant into operation

The ‘Pilot-SBG’ project, funded by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV), is focussing on the provision of renewable methane as an energy source for transport sectors that are difficult to electrify. The central components of the research and demonstration project being carried out by the german institute for biomass research, DBFZ, are the planning, construction and successful trial operation of a pilot plant for synthesised biogas (SBG) on a pilot plant scale. In the presence of around 120 guests from research, politics and industry, the new research plant was officially put into operation in a ceremony on 18 March 2025. Read more