Hydrogen Valley Emsland

Country
Germany

With 25 MW operational, 400 MW under construction, and a 2 GW target by 2030, the Hydrogen Valley Emsland is Germany's largest green hydrogen production site and a leading centre for the european hydrogen economy. With 200 km of pipeline and 13 connection points in Germany's first non-discriminatory hydrogen core network, the Hydrogen Valley Emsland supplies local (petro-)chemical industries, pilot projects, and mobility – as well as major industrial centres nationwide.

Lead developer H2-Region Emsland
Project partner

Overarching / General

Municipality of Emsland, City of Lingen, Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change of Lower Saxony, Ministry of Economics, Labour, Transport and Digitisation of Lower Saxony, Federal Ministry for Economic Affais and Climate Action

H2 production

RWE Generation SE, BP EuropeSE, CEC Haren GmbH & Co. KG, Hy2Gen Deutschland GmbH

H2 transportation, storage & distribution

Westfalen AG, Open Grid Europe GmbH (OGE), Nowega GmbH, Thyssengas GmbH, Gasunie Deutschland Transport Services GmbH, Westnetz GmbH, EWE Netz GmbH

H2 end use

BP Europe SE, H&R ChemPharm GmbH, CEC Haren GmbH & Co. KG, Hy2Gen Deutschland GmbH, Westfalen AG, RWE Generation SE / Kawasaki

Locations
Germany | Emsland / Lingen

Project details

Production volume

H2 production from electrolysis

150,000 H2 tons/year

H2 color

Green

Total electrolyser capacity

422.50 MW

Total investment (CAPEX)

> EUR 3000 m

Value chain coverage

Primary energy sourcing

Grid - 2000.00 MW Dedicated onsite renewables - 100.00 MW

H2 production

Alkaline water (ALK) electrolyser – 110.00 MW Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyser – 312.00 MW Solid oxide (SO) electrolyser – 0.50 MW

H2 Storage

Artificial - 5.00 tons

H2 transport

Pipeline Trucking

H2 distribution for mobility

350 bar (for cars and similar vehicles) 700 bar (for trucks and similar vehicles)

End use

Mobility

Road

Energy

Stationary fuel cells for distributed generation Hydrogen supply for injection into gas grid Hydrogen supply to gas-fired power plants

Industry

Refineries Chemical industry (incl. fertilizer production)

Project timeline

Current status: In operations

Planned timeline for First built out stage

Q1 2019 Project initiated
Q1 2021 Concept study completed
Q1 2022 Feasibility study completed
Q4 2024 FEED completed
Q4 2025 Final Investment Decision taken
Q1 2024 Construction started
Q3 2026 In operations

Current main activities

Commissioning completed and ramp-up of hydrogen production
First volumes delivered to offtakers or injected into the network
Monitoring of performance (technical, commercial, environmental) and continuous optimization