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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.
16 April 2021 10:35 GMT Updated 16 April 2021 11:40 GMT
Offshore wind and green hydrogen are “uniquely suited technologies” that could combine to play a massive role in the global energy transition – but must move quickly to achieve scale, technical reliability and price-competitiveness to achieve their joint potential, key players spanning the two sectors told a
Recharge event.
Vast H
2 production via electrolysis powered by gigawatt-scale offshore wind projects to wean sectors such as transport and heavy industry is widely seen as a potential “skeleton key that will help unlock our planet’s carbon-neutral future”, said
“Low carbon hydrogen is the number-one topic of interest among the companies we work with,” said Tom Heggarty, principal analyst in the energy transition practice of research group Wood Mackenzie.
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