Munich-based hydrogen mobility provider KEYOU and one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies, ENERTRAG, announced their cooperation at the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of an electrolyzer near Magdeburg. Partners plan to build a hydrogen mobility hub in Osterweddingen, using ENERTRAG’s green hydrogen production and KEYOU’s hydrogen trucks.
In Osterweddingen, near Magdeburg, the energy transition is entering the next phase: groundbreaking ceremony in the local industrial area marked the start of construction of an electrolyser from ENERTRAG, which will enable local industrial companies to cover their hydrogen needs in the future. ENERTRAG will produce green hydrogen, with the electrical energy required for the electrolysis coming exclusively from renewable sources – in this case from the company’s own wind farms. In the medium term, the hydrogen will also be fed into the ONTRAS hydrogen pipelines. In a first expansion phase, a 10 MW PEM electrolyser is planned to produce around 900 tons of green hydrogen per year. The electrolyser will be operated as a back-up system to compensate for fluctuations in electricity generation from wind and solar power, thus reducing the load on the electricity grid.
The green hydrogen could be used to decarbonize heavy industry, as a fuel for heavy-duty transportation, to generate electricity during a “dark period,” and to feed into hydrogen pipelines. At a later stage, the electrolysis plant may be expanded to add an additional 10 MW of capacity.
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