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By Jack Burke 25 November
2019
INNIO Spearheading Hydrogen Power
Project
INNIO and HanseWerk AG have signed a
letter of intent to develop a hydrogen-fueled combined heat and power
(CHP) plant in Hamburg, Germany.
The roughly 1 MW pilot project will not
only drive forward the large-scale use of hydrogen technology in CHP
plants, but the city of Hamburg has also set itself the goal of
ensuring that all interested customers in the power, heat and
transportation sectors can be supplied almost entirely with green
hydrogen by 2035, according to the companies.
The companies said that green hydrogen is
particularly attractive to Northern Germany given its vast wind
resources and is gaining ever greater significance as an energy
storage medium. If wind-generated electricity is converted into green
hydrogen, it can be used in power, heat, transportation and industrial
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“Our joint undertaking is an important
flagship project for the successful implementation of the energy
transition,” said Matthias Boxberger, CEO and member of the Technical
Board at HanseWerk AG, at the press talk upon signing the LOI. “The
energy transformation can only be successful in the longer term
if through sector coupling a greater proportion of power generated
on-site is consumed at the same location. Green hydrogen will play a
significant role as a future energy source in this context.”
At the demonstration facility in
Jürgen-Töpfer-Strasse in central Hamburg, a Jenbacher CHP plant with
an electrical output of 999 kW in natural gas mode is also due to run
on variable hydrogen/natural gas mixes, or 100% green hydrogen. The
CHP system, which has been optimized for use with natural gas,
achieves an overall efficiency of 93%. When operating with pure
hydrogen or hydrogen blends, the output will be adjusted accordingly.
The heat generated will be fed into HanseWerk AG’s local heating
network, while electrical energy will be made available for recharging
electric vehicles at the site when required. The intention is to bring
the CHP plant online for natural gas operation as early as spring
2020; hydrogen-powered generation would then commence the following
summer.
In addition, the project is due to carry
out simulations of controlled and uncontrolled blending of hydrogen in
the natural gas grid. This simulation work will deepen the existing
knowledge of INNIO Jenbacher and HanseWerk AG and help improve the
future operation of gas engine CHP plans and the conditions required
for smooth performance.
“Together with HanseWerk AG, we are
paving the way for a future energy supply in Hamburg that is greener,
more secure, more flexible and more decentralized,” said Carlos Lange,
president and CEO of INNIO. “As a leading solutions provider of gas
engines, we continue to invest in new technologies such as hydrogen.
We are proud to be working in collaboration with HanseWerk AG to
develop this innovative flagship project, a development that is a big
step in advancing toward decarbonization.”
HanseWerk AG is a German energy service
provider with a focus on grid operation and decentralized energy
generation. It supplies around 1.3 million customers in the federal
states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania,
Brandenburg, and Lower Saxony with electricity, natural gas, water or
heat.
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