May 5, 2021, by Adrijana Buljan
Danish government has designated Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy’s wind-to-hydrogen pilot project currently under development nearby the company’s Danish headquarters in Brande
as an official regulatory energy test zone.
The test zone permit gives Siemens Gamesa dispensation from electricity regulations in order to test its potential future application for both onshore and offshore wind.
The project, called Brande Hydrogen, is the first pilot project in the world to connect a wind turbine to an electrolyser with the ability to operate in ‘island mode’, i.e. driving an electrolysis rig with no link to an electricity grid, according to Siemens Gamesa. It couples an existing onshore 3 MW wind turbine with a Green Hydrogen Systems electrolyser stack to produce green hydrogen, which is then distributed by Danish company Everfuel to power Copenhagen’s fuel cell taxi fleet.
Breaking the rules to foster green hydrogen innovation
The Danish Energy Agency has granted permission, to two power-to-X specialists, for the development of innovative projects without having to comply with the country s energy legislation. This exemption is part of an upcoming pilot scheme to support new clean energy technologies, including green hydrogen.The Danish Energy Agency has announced, today, that Denmark-based energy companies GreenLab Skive and Brande Brint have been awarded permission to develop power-to-X pilot projects without having to comply with Denmark s energy legislation. The agency defined the move as a historical decision, .
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Denmark designates historic energy test zones to support green energy transition
The Danish government has today (5
th May) designated energy test zones to two danish companies to support a transition to green energy and hydrogen.
The clean energy industrial cluster GreenLab and Siemens Gamesa’s Brande hydrogen project have both been selected as the designated companies that will act as official regulatory energy test zones.
The test zone permit gives GreenLab and Siemens dispensation from electricity regulations and brings Denmark one step closer to the integration of unprecedented amounts of renewable energy into the energy grid.
These designated test zones will be a one of a kind in Europe and the insights will be valuable for all of Europe’s green transition – including clean energy storage, green fuels, agriculture and industry.