Hydrogen revolution in northern Germany: EWE starts major project!

The EWE AG drives the retrofitting of its gas storage location in the Wesermarsch for hydrogen storage. As part of the “Clean Hydrogen Coastline” project, EWE commissioned the Neuman & Esser company to deliver two computers that represent central components for hydrogen storage in converted natural gas caverns. According to the EWE, hydrogen is to be saved from 2027 in order to provide it as required. This contributes to improving the supply of future hydrogen users.

The project supports the integration of green hydrogen technology into the existing energy infrastructure. EWE thus contributes to the security of supply and the development of a hydrogen economy, whereby funding commitments from the Federal Government and the State of Lower Saxony support the project. EWE expects funding notices for the project as part of the IPCEI program in the summer of 2024. The detailed planning is already underway, whereby the hydrogen inuming and storing is planned in the next two to three years.

progress in the project "Clean Hydrogen Coastline"

The “Clean Hydrogen Coastline” project includes several sub -projects that want to advance the development of an electrolysis capacity of 400 megawatts by 2026 in northwestern Germany together with industrial partners such as Arcelormittal, Gasunie, SWB and Tennet. This includes planning a 320 megawatt electrolysis system in Emden for industrial hydrogen production, which is to produce green hydrogen from renewable energies by 2028. In addition, a 50-megawatt electrolyser is planned in Bremen, which will provide hydrogen for climate-neutral steel production, among other things on Arcelormittal in Bremen and other companies.

Another component of the project is the connection of the hydrogen infrastructure to the cavern memory in Huntorf. Here, a natural gass storage is converted and the installation of super -hydrogen storage systems. In the Hycavmobil research project, EWE also tests the storage of hydrogen on a smaller scale in cavern storage in Rüdersdorf near Berlin. An additional sub-project aims to optimize the hydrogen infrastructure in the northwest through the construction and the conversion of pipeline sections for connecting to the European hydrogen transport network.

The overall project offers starting points for Dutch partners as well as projects in Hamburg and North Rhine-Westphalia and pursues the goal of integrating hydrogen into existing energy infrastructures and promoting a European hydrogen economy, as well as hydrogen-niedersachsen.de reported.