“Biogenic hydrogen for the Neumünster region”, with this headline BtX energy GmbH published on its LinkedIn.
“After successful R&D in the pilot project with the Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, at the Lefkeshof farm in Krefeld, it was clear: Now we need to scale up and enter the market. We promised these efforts to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection back then, and if there’s one thing we take seriously, it’s keeping our word.
Now we’ve found the perfect location:
At the Rosenhof farm in Padenstedt near Neumünster, the incredibly friendly Beckmann family has been operating a biogas plant since 2007, in addition to arable farming and dairy farming. This plant can produce enough gas purely from waste to supply approximately 120 tons of green hydrogen from biogenic waste in the initial expansion phase, and later up to 250 tons.
Not even 10 km away is the Hypion GmbH hydrogen filling station, where several trucks already refuel with sustainable hydrogen every day. We now want to leverage these site conditions to enable a fully regional supply in the future. Therefore, today our Dr. Wünning and Jens Beckmann publicly signed a declaration of intent for implementation, resulting in concrete approval planning. The icing on the cake was the opportunity, after Dr. Andy Gradel’s project presentation, to listen to Dr. Stefan Rehm from Hypion GmbH and his visions for a sustainable hydrogen economy. He underscored interest in the hydrogen produced with a letter of intent.
Dr. Markus Hirschfeld, Deputy Head of Department, honored us on behalf of MEKUN, replacing State Secretary Joschka Knuth, who unfortunately had to cancel his visit due to illness. In his welcoming address, he emphasized the state of Schleswig-Holstein’s excellent knowledge and positive attitude toward biogenic hydrogen and the associated opportunities.
What happens now?
The quota market is at a standstill, and vehicle subsidies are suspended. Naturally, we are now discussing the possibility of state funding with the very open-minded ministry before we simply go all out and risk the project’s success.
To ensure that this option doesn’t cost us any time in implementing the project, we are now starting the concrete technical and permit planning, while we are already building a BTH400 at our sister company, e-flox GmbH (see photo), which can then be used for the project”.
Photo of BtX energy GmbH
Press release( translated from German by Deepl) https://tinyurl.com/5n6wr7f7
