22.01.2026
A new milestone for hydrogen and energy research: the WAVE-H2 Campus Vaihingen officially opened on 20 January.
“With the WAVE-H2 platform, the University of Stuttgart is gaining a state-of-the-art research infrastructure that will play a key role in the innovation ecosystem in Stuttgart and the wider region,” says Anna Steiger, Chancellor of the University of Stuttgart. “We are proud of this flagship project for advancing sustainable hydrogen technologies.”
WAVE-H2 is driving research into new hydrogen technologies and their integration into industrial systems across its sites in Stuttgart-Vaihingen and Freudenstadt. The Vaihingen campus focuses on the full hydrogen value chain and Power-to-X technologies — from electrolysis and ammonia and methanol synthesis to hydrogen recovery. From 2026, activities will expand to industrial scale at the Freudenstadt campus.
“With this platform, we are making a strong contribution to innovative and flexible hydrogen solutions and to the decarbonization of industry — at regional, state, and national levels,” says Alexander Sauer, Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency in Production (EEP) and Head of WAVE-H2. Kai Peter Birke, Chair of Electrical Energy Storage Systems at the Institute for Photovoltaics (ipv), adds: “We look forward to working closely with our academic partners in an interdisciplinary environment to advance new hydrogen technologies.”
The start of research activities marks the beginning of new momentum for a sustainable energy future.