09/19/2023
Source: Energy & Management Powernews
Good half a dozen Bavarian companies have developed a concept for a hydrogen infrastructure in the Ingolstadt region. The implementation is to be shortly before the start.
This idea is to make school. "HyPipe Bavaria / H2 Cluster" is the name of a project in Bavaria, which is to show "how the development of a regional hydrogen supply and thus the decarbonization of industry can succeed successfully." This is the view of Roland Weigert (Freie Wähler), the Bavarian State Secretary for Economic Affairs. More than a dozen companies, including utilities, network operators and industrial companies, presented a jointly developed concept for the development of a hydrogen infrastructure in the Ingolstadt region on September 15 - and presented the paper to the ministry representative.
The aim of the concept is to "dispense with the construction of new pipelines in the most resource-efficient way possible, to use the existing natural gas network by rededicating it to hydrogen, and to connect regional hydrogen producers and consumers in the process," according to a press release from the project partners. The results of the partners' investigations have been incorporated into the preparation of the new Gas 2023 network development plan, and are part of the German government's planned hydrogen core network. The talk is of an "Ingolstadt hydrogen cluster" that is to represent the "nucleus for a regional hydrogen ecosystem."
Timely planning for distribution networks planned
The expected hydrogen volumes were reportedly determined on the basis of a data query on generation and consumption. In a first step H2-generation plants and H2-consumers would be connected with one another and the condition for the binding to the national and European hydrogen transport infrastructure at the latest 2030 would be created, it is further said.
The concept for the hydrogen core net stands shortly before the start into the conversion, communicate the enterprises. So far, however, the distribution network has not been considered. That is to happen next. There is no question for the project partners that the demand for hydrogen in the region will be high and that this will require corresponding imports.
"As an economic heavyweight, the Ingolstadt region also plays an important role in the hydrogen world of tomorrow," emphasized the State Secretary for Economic Affairs when presenting the concept. As fast as possible "now a regular process for the network planning including integration of the distribution networks must follow, in order to be able to plan step by step the further branching into the surface."
The plan for HyPipe Bavaria was created by the companies Bayerngas, Bayernets, Energienetze Bayern, Stadtwerke Ingolstadt as well as the Bayernoil Raffineriegesellschaft and the Gunvor refinery Ingolstadt and the automobile group Audi. They were accompanied scientifically by the Research Association for Energy Economics.
Author: Manfred Fischer
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