FRANKFURT: Hamburg is planning to generate green hydrogen, which is produced from renewable power, at a plant it will develop with energy firms Shell, Mitsubishi and Vattenfall, the city state said.
Hamburg’s municipal heating company has signed a letter of intent with the three companies to develop a 100 megawatt (MW) facility to extract hydrogen from water through electrolysis, it said.
Hydrogen produced at the so-called Green Energy Hub would be derived from wind and solar power, the statement said. Hydrogen produced using fossil fuels is not carbon free.
The technology is part of Germany’s plan to decarbonize its economy by 2050.
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FRANKFURT, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Hamburg’s municipal heating company and Shell, Mitsubishi (MBI) and Vattenfall have signed a letter of intent to develop a 100 megawatt (MW) hydrogen electrolysis plant, the city state said in a statement on Friday.
Electrolysis is a carbon-free process - if powered by renewable electricity - to extract “green” hydrogen from water and a key technology in Germany’s plan to decarbonise its economy by 2050.
The envisaged size of the Hamburg plant is in line with a number of such other initiatives, bringing the hydrogen push in Europe’s biggest economy closer to commercially viable output levels.
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FRANKFURT Hamburg is planning to generate green hydrogen, which is produced from renewable power, at a plant it will develop with energy firms Shell, Mitsubishi and Vattenfall, the city state said on Friday.
Hamburg’s municipal heating company has signed a letter of intent with the three companies to develop a 100 megawatt (MW) facility to extract hydrogen from water through electrolysis, it said.
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Hydrogen produced at the so-called Green Energy Hub would be derived from wind and solar power, the statement said. Hydrogen produced using fossil fuels is not carbon free.