Germany Hydrogen Projects

In Germany, transmission system operator Amprion and gas net operator OGE have presented an

investment-ready plan for a 100 MW electrolyser and a dedicated hydrogen pipeline in the north-west

of Germany that could come online in 2023, a EUR 150 million (USD 168 million) proposal (Amprion

and Open Grid Europe, 2019).

A 40 MW wind park coupled with electrolysers is planned near a chemical

industry in Germany by VNG, Uniper, Terrawatt and DBI, including 50 billion cubic metres of storage and a

dedicated hydrogen pipeline, with potential expansion to 200 MW by 2030.

A 10 MW polymer electrolyte

membrane (PEM) electrolyser is planned to come online at Shell’s Wesseling refinery near Cologne in

2020, under a consortium with ITM Power from the UK (Energate, 2018).

In Mainz, a 6 MW electrolyser has been operational since 2017 (BINE, 2018). Germany is especially active in

this context. In July 2019, the government approved 11 demonstration projects that will result in significant

upscaling (FCB, 2019):

• CCU P2C Salzbergen – synthetic methane production

• DOW Green MeOH – methanol production

• Element eins – 100 MW electrolyser

• EnergieparkBL – 35 MW electrolyser

• GreenHydroChem – 50 MW electrolyser

• H2 Stahl – hydrogen injection in a blast furnace

• H2 Whylen – 10 MW electrolyser

• HydroHub Fenne – 17.5 MW electrolyser

• Norddeutsches reallabor – 77 MW electrolyser

• RefLau – 10 MW electrolyser

• REWest – 10 MW electrolyser