A project to correct the issue is planned to transport renewable hydrogen from Burgenland to Vienna in order to relieve the strain on the power grids.

Even an expansion won’t be sufficient to deliver the electricity produced by wind and solar energy to consumers because the existing power systems are operating at maximum capacity. In the first quarter of 2023, the project must be submitted for approval.

Only 1.7 percent would come from wind energy, and only 0.7 percent from photovoltaics. About two thirds of this would be covered by coal, natural gas, and oil. However, network bottlenecks already exist. When electricity from wind and photovoltaic sources is fed into Burgenland, there are 1.2 gigawatt peaks; the lines and infrastructure must be prepared for these surges.

At Zurndorf, an electrolysis facility with a starting capacity of 60 MW is proposed. There could be the production of 23,000 to 46,000 tons of hydrogen in the final stage, which must happen by 2030. The precise planning phase for this hydrogen facility has already begun.x