Source: Energy & Management Powernews, 08 August 2022
Uniper has commissioned the Dresden-based company Sunfire to build a 30 MW electrolyzer. From 2024, it is to go into operation at the Bad Lauchstädt energy park near Halle on the Saale.
The Bad Lauchstädt energy park in southern Saxony-Anhalt is to become a "showcase project of the energy turnaround." Uniper wants to map the entire value chain of regeneratively produced hydrogen there: from production to transport, storage and its economic use on an industrial scale. With the commissioning of Sunfire, "a central pillar of the project has been found," as Axel Wietfeld, CEO Hydrogen at Uniper, explains.
The Dresden-based company will take care of the production of the green hydrogen in Bad Lauchstädt: It is building an electrolyzer based on pressurized alkali technology with a capacity of 30 MW. The delivery date has been fixed for 2024. This was announced by the partners in a joint statement on August 4.
Just recently, Sunfire was awarded a three-digit million sum by the German government and the EU as part of IPCEI (Important Projects of Common European Interest) to upscale its hydrogen technologies. According to a decision by the EU Commission at the beginning of July, Germany and other EU states may support the establishment and expansion of a European hydrogen industry in 41 projects with up to 5.4 billion euros.
In Bad Lauchstädt, the Sunfire electrolyzer is to produce green hydrogen using electricity from the nearby wind farm. In a second phase, this hydrogen is to be temporarily stored in a salt cavern specially equipped for this purpose. It can then be fed into the hydrogen network of the local chemical industry via a converted gas pipeline. There are also plans to use it in hydrogen-powered buses for local public transport.
You can find more information on the Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park here .
Author: Davina Spohn
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