RWE commissions 14-megawatt pilot electrolyzer in Lingen

In Germany, RWE announced it has commissioned its pilot electrolyzer plant in Lingen, Germany. The facility on the site of RWE’s Emsland gas-fired power plant has a capacity of 14 megawatts (MW). It can generate up to 270 kilograms of green hydrogen per hour using electricity from renewable sources. Featuring two different electrolysis technologies, the pilot plant is to provide valuable insights for developing future industrial-scale hydrogen facilities, RWE said. As part of the GET H2 Nukleus project, a 100-MW electrolyzer is to be commissioned there by 2025, with its capacity to be expanded to 300 MW by 2027. Markus Krebber, CEO of RWE, said: “Lingen is one of the most exciting locations of the German energy transition. In addition to operating our flexible gas-fired power plant and our state-of-the-art large-scale battery system, we are now also producing green hydrogen here. Over the coming years, we will expand our production capacities for green hydrogen at this site further to supply industrial consumers with green molecules and thus support them in their decarbonization efforts. Together with our partner companies, our teams are pioneering these innovative technologies here. The hydrogen economy is extremely complex. With the core grid, an import strategy, domestic hydrogen production, and hydrogen storage facilities we have a target picture of the future. We can see a part of this vision becoming reality here and now.”

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