Vattenfall joins wind-to-hydrogen storage project alliance

Swedish utility Vattenfall has signed up to Europe’s first wind power-hydrogen storage project, joining German companies Enertrag and Siemens, and French oil and gas giant Total.

The group – known as the Performing Energy Alliance for Hydrogen from Wind (PEAH) – plans to build a development in Prenzlau, north of Berlin, made up of a biogas unit, a trio of 2MW wind turbines, two combined heat and power plants, and an electrolysis unit to generate the hydrogen.

Hydrogen produced would be used to co-fire the power plant and as fuel for hydrogen-powered cars.

“This is a unique project both for Germany and Europe as a whole. It combines the generation of renewable electricity, heat and hydrogen,” says Oliver Weinmann,…

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