The business plans to invest roughly ten million euros in Krummhörn to test green hydrogen storage (Aurich district).
Doug Waters, Uniper’s Energy Storage Business Chair, stated, “Our aim is to build a commercial-scale storage solution for green hydrogen.” Existing gas storage facilities in Germany were built for natural gas and would need to be changed to hydrogen.
By 2024, the storage facility will be operational
According to its own declarations, the Düsseldorf-based energy business is investing roughly ten million euros in the Krummhörn project, which will see a storage facility with a capacity of 250,000 cubic meters of hydrogen built. Krummhörn’s storage facility is expected to be operational by 2024. The project can be coupled with the Uniper initiative “Green Wilhelmshaven” because to its closeness to Wilhelmshaven, according to the organization.
Wilhelmshaven’s proximity to the project
Uniper is working on two green hydrogen projects in Wilhelmshaven. This contains an ammonia import terminal as well as a massive electrolysis plant capable of producing up to 1000 megawatts of green hydrogen. “One of the main concerns of the energy transition and a crucial building block for a CO2-free future is the capacity to store green electricity,” Waters stated. The research project’s goal was to “test the technologies and procedures as soon as feasible.”
