1.6-GW Coal Plant May Get New Life as Green Hydrogen Hub
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1.6-GW Coal Plant May Get New Life as Green Hydrogen Hub:
Global technology heavyweights Shell and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Swedish state-owned energy firm Vattenfall, and German municipal heat generator Warme Hamburg are teaming on a massive project to repurpose a 2015-commissioned 1.6-GW coal plant in northern Germany as a massive green hydrogen hub.
[...] In January, Vattenfall, MHI, Shell, and Warme Hamburg said the Moorburg site was ideally suited to the envisioned "Green Energy Hub" (Figure 2). "It is connected to both the national 380,000-volt transmission network and the 110,000-volt network of the City of Hamburg. In addition, overseas ships can call at the location directly and use the quay and port facilities as an import terminal," they noted in a joint statement. "The municipal gas network company also intends to expand a hydrogen network in the port within ten years and is already working on the necessary distribution infrastructure. Numerous potential customers for green hydrogen are located near the site, thus enabling the project to cover the entire hydrogen value chain-from generation to storage, transport, and utilization in various sectors."
[...] While it is unclear which technology the partners are considering for the 100-MW power-to-gas converters, Fabian Ziegler, CEO of Shell in Germany, noted that the project may encapsulate the "entire value chain for hydrogen"-from power production from "offshore wind to the expansion of capacities for green hydrogen production as well as to the supply for mobility or transport applications and other industries." Christian Heine, CEO of Warme Hamburg GmbH and Gasnetz Hamburg GmbH, meanwhile, said that outside of the project's "enormous potential" as a means for power storage, the project could provide "climate neutral heat."
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