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06 Sep 2019, 13:32
Julian Wettengel

Hamburg wants to build world's largest hydrogen plant

NDR / Die Welt / 威力彩玩法

The city of Hamburg in Northern Germany aims to become home to the world's largest hydrogen electrolysis plant with a capacity of 100 megawatts,聽. The city's economy senator, Michael Westhagemann, said a final decision whether to construct the facility in the port area will be taken by the end of 2019. According to the article, the plant running on electricity from wind turbines will would be able to produce about 22,000 cubic metres of hydrogen per hour, enough to power a passenger car for a range of 200,000 kilometres. It will cost a three-digit million euro sum and will be funded with German and EU support.
The government of Germany's largest state of Bavaria, meanwhile, has established a research centre for hydrogen () tasked with developing a hydrogen strategy for the state. The centre is 聽supported by an industry alliance, which includes carmakers Audi and BMW, Siemens and energy supplier Bayernwerk,聽. The goal is to make Bavaria a leading location for the manufacturing of key hydrogen technologies, said the state government聽.

The production of 鈥済reen hydrogen鈥 with renewable power using electrolysis聽has lately become a hot topic in German industry, and聽a whole range of projects聽are dedicated to the development of the technology.聽Using renewable electricity to produce聽fossil fuel substitutes could solve some of the Energiewende鈥檚 toughest challenges, such as energy storage and heavy-duty freight transport. The federal government聽聽on a 鈥渉ydrogen strategy鈥 by the end of the year.

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