Under the coordination of VERBUND, VOESTALPINE, a steel manufacturer, and SIEMENS, a PEM electrolyser manufacturer, propose a 26 month demonstration of the 6MW electrolysis power plant installed at the VOESTALPINE LINZ plant (Austria). After pilot plant commissioning, the electrolyser is prequalified with the support of APG, the transmission operator of Austria, in order to provide grid-balancing services such as primary, secondary or tertiary reserves while utilising the commercial pools of VERBUND. The demonstration is split into five pilot tests and the quasi-commercial operation to show that the PEM electrolyser is able both to use timely power price opportunities (in order to provide affordable hydrogen for current uses of the steel making processes), and to attract extra revenues from grid services which improves the hydrogen price attractiveness from a two-carrier utility like VERBUND. Replicability of the experimental results at larger scales in EU28 for the steel industry (with inputs from TSOs in Italy, Spain and the Netherlands) is studied under the coordination of ECN. It involves a technical, economic and environmental assessment of the experimental results using the CertifHY tools. The roll out of each result is provided by ECN, together with policy and regulatory recommendations to accelerate the deployment in the steel and fertilizer industry, with low CO2 hydrogen streams provided also by electrolysing units using renewable electricity. The plausibility of this roadmap is reinforced at the on-start of the demonstration by the creation of an exploitation company involving the core industrial partners, which starts commercial operations of the Linz pilot plant right after the end of the demonstration. Dissemination targeting the European stakeholders of the electricity, steel and fertilizer value chain nourishes the preparation of the practical implementation of the results in the 10 years following the demonstration’s end.
Topic:
FCH-02-7-2016 Demonstration of large-scale rapid response electrolysis to provide grid balancing services and to supply hydrogen markets
Coordinator:
VERBUND SOLUTIONS GMBH, AUSTRIA
Contact:
Rudolf Zauner
Other participating organisations:
Company | Country |
VERBUND TRADING GMBH | AT |
VOESTALPINE STAHL GMBH | AT |
K1-MET GMBH | AT |
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT | DE |
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT OESTERREICH | AT |
AUSTRIAN POWER GRID AG | AT |
STICHTING ENERGIEONDERZOEK CENTRUM NEDERLAND | NL |
- Reference
- 735503
- Project duration
- 1 Jan 2017 - 30 Jun 2021
- Project locations
- 1010 Wien, Austria
- Overall budget
- €17 823 300
- EU contribution
- €11 997 80067.3% of the overall budget
- Project website
- http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/207465_en.html