Neuman & Esser – Kicking off the Heinsberg Hydrogen Project H2HS

Neuman & Esser – Kicking off the Heinsberg Hydrogen Project H2HS

 

From the region for the region. This is the motto of the project to produce green hydrogen in Heinsberg soon. For this integrated approach, the local companies NEUMAN & ESSER from Übach-Palenberg, BMR Energy from Geilenkirchen, Frauenrath, Veolia from Heinsberg and WEP from Hückelhoven have joined forces to build a 2 MW electrolyzer including a hydrogen refuelling station. The electricity required for this will also come from renewable energy plants in the region. In a first step, 70 tons of green hydrogen will be produced here each year for the operation of 12 WestVerkehr fuel cell buses. Production can be increased to over 200 tons per year if required, and there are also plans to expand the plant if there is further demand from neighbouring industry. The entire hydrogen value chain is thus kept in the region and is a unique selling point of this project.

 

Dr. Stefanie Kesting, Managing Director at NEUMAN & ESSER, emphasizes:

 

Hydrogen is an international megatrend. But we are showing that you don’t have to wait for such megatrends to develop, you can be involved right from the start and make a regional and local contribution,

 

Guido Beckers, Managing Director of BMR Energy, briefly summarizes the three-year project development:

 

Approval procedures, market, business models? Nothing was available, but we accepted the challenge.

 

The issues were clarified and the project is now being implemented. Landrat Stephan Pusch (District Administrator) emphasizes:

 

The whole world is talking about the energy transition. But we don’t talk about it, we do it.

 

Gereon Frauenrath also emphasizes the importance and uniqueness of the project:

 

“It’s not the first ground-breaking ceremony for a hydrogen plant, the Düreners were quicker than us. But this is the first ground-breaking ceremony for a plant in the administrative district of Cologne that has been fully approved”

 

As a first step, the transport sector is now being supplied with green hydrogen. Industry and the residential sector are already being considered for successful decarbonization. Veolia Managing

 

Director Dr. Stefan Langer explains:

 

Industry should and will come. Our project is attracting a lot of attention within the international Veolia Group.

 

This makes the project in Heinsberg a blueprint for further hydrogen activities, even beyond the region.

 

WFG Managing Director Ulrich Schirowski, concludes:

 

The fact that we have the right potential in the Heinsberg district to implement something like this is a real strength. But you also need the right types of entrepreneurs who are prepared to go the extra mile,

 

These companies have come together in Heinsberg and will supply the region with green hydrogen in the future. 

 

Source: Hydrogencentral