Lhyfe has unveiled an 800MW green hydrogen project in Lubmin, Germany, to supply the future European hydrogen backbone network.
The new project site will offer access to existing and future electricity production capacity from offshore wind.
It also benefits from an extra-high voltage grid connection operated by 50Hertz, the transmission system operator, which already operates a transformer station in Lubmin and will feed all the required electricity power to produce hydrogen.
The plant will be built on the site of a decommissioned nuclear power plant.
The project is in the development phase and is scheduled to go into operation by 2029 with a production capacity of up to 330 tons of green hydrogen per day.
Part of Lhyfe’s backbone development strategy, this plant will feed into the German core hydrogen pipeline network, for the development of which the German government recently unveiled a €20bn financing plan.
This investment will support the construction of a 9700 km-long pipeline network to transport hydrogen across the country and to Germany’s neighbours.
Alongside its bulk and onsite strategy, Lhyfe’s backbone strategy consists in positioning some of its green hydrogen production units at locations specifically chosen for their proximity to the future European hydrogen backbone.
This will enable it to address a wide array of customers through the different units.
As such, over the last two years, Lhyfe has developed a backbone project portfolio representing 3.8GW of electrolysis capacity (as of June 2023) or 37% of its total project pipeline, including large projects such as in Perl (Saarland) and Delfzijl (the Netherlands) located near future hydrogen.