Today we are talking about very interesting successful hydrogen projects, those which make money and maybe one which hasn’t been economical at all. Because where you see me right now used to be a hydrogen refueling station. Sadly, it has been unbuild. It was Europe’s biggest hydrogen stations of its time and did cost approximately 7.6 million Euro.
It would be possible to assume that hydrogen is not the future. At the end of the video, I share my theory why hydrogen projects are beneficial or not.
My favorite hydrogen projects are
Iberdrola, Fertilizer in Spain
Haßfurt, Windgas in Germany and
Mafate, OFF Grid Energy on Reunion Island
successful hydrogen project no 3: Iberdrola hydrogen and oxygen production Spain
The fertilizer industry is responsible for the most CO2 emissions by hydrogen reformed from methane gas. In the industry chemical hydrogen is traded as technical gas and sold for much higher prices compared to its calorific value.
The expenses for technical hydrogen where big for the Spanish vegetable farmer fertilizer producers.
They use the green hydrogen to make ammonia NH3 by adding nitrogen to hydrogen. Oxygen, as a byproduct of electrolysis, is used entirely in iberdrola’s nitric acid unit.
The production is operational since 2021.
Successful hydrogen project no 2: Haßfurt a small German town making wind gas
Since 2016 the small community has wind turbines and an electrolyzer. Only when the electricity price is low on the stock market, the wind power is used to make hydrogen. The hydrogen is mixed to the gas network. The habitants burn the small percentage of hydrogen in their off the shelf boilers.
Easy as that!
Successful hydrogen project No 1 Mafate on the top of the mountains of the island “la Reunion”
4000 meters high in the mountains a slave named mafate escaped from the cruel slave traders. Many slaves followed his dangerous path to the town then called mafate where the soldiers couldn’t find them.
Still today people live there peacefully. Only helicopters bring goods to the citizens.
They have a lot of photovoltaics. The very rainy place offers fruitful vegetation, but electricity couldn’t be stored in expensive batteries during the cloudy days. The critical infrastructure like public buildings and the cell signal can be fed 10 days by a hydrogen fuel cell.
Since 2017 the town is off grid without discomforts. Only 8-kilowatt peak are enough for 800 habitants if all excess power is used. A lithium Battery with a capacity of 16 kilowatt hours serves as a bridge between peek consumption and electrolyzer production. The 2.5-kilowatt A E M Electrolyzer fills hydrogen canisters which feed a hydrogen fuel cell for five days nonstop.
But isn’t hydrogen explosive and dangerous?
The 2nd July 2022 a big fire established right next to the electrolyzer. No one was injured and sorry for the Hindenburg party the safety system concerning the hydrogen worked flawlessly. Hydrogen was not the reason for the fire.
Conclusion
Why is Iberdrola an amazing hydrogen project?
Iberdrola combined all the parts of a green hydrogen economy on one spot.
- The renewable energies are right next to the facility
- They use hydrogen as a high valuable technical gas
- They use the oxygen to increase payback
Just like the volks-electrolyzer, which can be used with a hydrogen and oxygen booster doubling the benefitskamera
Why is Haßfurt a successful hydrogen project
The habitants of the little town profit from the hydrogen mix in the gas grid. The acceptance of the wind turbines is big because they use “greener” grid gas for their heating without further costs. Key to a successful hydrogen project is
- Offering benefits to the habitants around the renewable energies locally
- They can also benefit from negative stock prices for electricity with the electrolyzer
- By blending the hydrogen to the gas grid, there are no expenses for the pricy hydrogen storage tanks
You want to know hydrogen storage prices? Check out the monthly updated International Hydrogen price list in the volks-electrolyzer members area. You can see electrolyzer prices and fuel cell prices either.
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Why is Mafate a successful hydrogen project
Transporting Diesel by helicopter is incredibly expensive. The return on invest for a fuel cell, an electrolyzer and the hydrogen bundles is the better the more expensive the alternative is. In this case the fossil fuels.
- The energy consumption of this 800 people is astonishingly low. The easier it is to convert to hydrogen
- Mafate has no winter, just 10 cloudy days intermit the renewable energy supply.
- Mafate is an off-grid hydrogen project with little economic alternatives
And this lady from reunion island claims:
If it is possible in Mafate it is possible for the world.
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And for the Hindenburg party: The hydrogen refueling station was unbuild to restore the incredible beauty of Hamburg’s heritage in the so called “Speicherstadt”
It’s worth a visit 😉
Thanks for you curiosity
Thanks to
Channel : Konbini
La vie à Mafate sur l’île de La Réunion : “C’est un style de vie complètement à part.” l Reportage
Channel : Financial Times
Can hydrogen help the world reach net zero? | FT Film
Channel : Faut Pas Rêver – Officiel
La Réunion – A la découverte de Mafate
Channel : Iberdrola
Inauguration of Iberdrola’s green hydrogen plant in Puertollano
Channel : Bayerischer Rundfunk
Energieversorgung der Zukunft: Wasserstoff wird alltagstauglich | Frankenschau