Hydrogen and fuel cells

The company HY.Teck GmbH & Co. KG receives 4,623,967.50 euros for the expansion of a hydrogen production plant and an additional hydrogen filling station. The latter will be used to supply ten vehicles from FISCHER Weilheim GmbH and other industrial users. A PV system is to be installed for water electrolysis, which will be connected to the hydrogen production plant via a power line. There are also plans to transport surplus hydrogen to other potential customers via a mobile storage facility. The switch to green hydrogen will save around 4,200 tons of CO2 per year from the ramp-up. Green hydrogen, which is produced on the basis of renewable energies, is considered to be one of the key elements in the transformation of the economy away from fossil fuels.

A further 199,000 euros will go to Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. The technological shift in the automotive industry towards alternative drive systems has already arrived in the wind tunnel. The focus is also on hydrogen-based drives such as fuel cells and hydrogen engines. The demand for testing hydrogen technologies in the wind tunnel, even outside of mobility, is increasing noticeably. MAHLE would therefore like to establish a safe and modern test facility. Know-how and technology will be used to support and shape the development of tomorrow's hydrogen-based technologies. For the operation of the technologies and vehicles, extensive, advanced safety techniques are required, which can be investigated and improved in this way.

A project by Stadtwerke Stuttgart (SWS ) for the regional distribution of green hydrogen by trailer is being funded. The aim of the project is a trailer filling station to supplement an already planned hydrogen pipeline in the Neckar Valley. The municipal energy supplier wants to establish a Green Hydrogen Hub for Stuttgart and the region (GH2S) there. Up to four electrolysers will produce around 1000 tons of green hydrogen in fuel cell quality per year from 2026. The use of trailers will allow companies and municipalities from the entire Stuttgart region to obtain locally produced green hydrogen in a timely manner. In addition, the trailers enable the simultaneous filling, storage and customer delivery of green hydrogen within a radius of 50 kilometers around the production plant. The trailers thus complement the hydrogen pipeline in the Neckar Valley, which is to be built as part of the H2 GeNeSiS (H2G) funding project. The pipeline forms the core element of a marketplace with hydrogen producers and users. H2G is a joint project funded by the EU and the Ministry of the Environment and Climate of the state of Baden-Württemberg, in which SWS, the Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation, Stadtwerke Esslingen, the Steinbeis Innovation Center for Energy-efficient and Emission-free Technologies (SIEET) and the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) are working together. The system (pipeline) to be implemented as part of H2G will make it possible to supply local customers with hydrogen.

It has not yet been possible to supply green hydrogen to the Stuttgart region. Non-discriminatory access to the trailer station will also enable third parties, such as companies or logistics service providers, to both purchase green hydrogen at the GH2S and feed it into the pipeline. In this way, the applicants hope to create an efficient and resilient hydrogen infrastructure with a regional reach.

HydroPulse - Stuttgart, theproject of Stadtwerke Stuttgart (SWS), is part of the Green Hydrogen Hub Stuttgart (GH2S). Two hydrogen filling stations are to be built in the Stuttgart-Wangen/Hafen area and connected to the future GeNeSiS pipeline. Three fuel cell transporters are also to be procured for use by SWS. A high-temperature fuel cell is also to be installed at the new SWS headquarters and connected to the GeNeSiS pipeline. The total volume of the project, which will run from January 2025 to December 2026, is 11.088 million euros. The funding amount is five million euros.

H2.Zero: Together with Green Hydrogen Technology GmbH, ETG Entsorgung + Transport GmbH aims to produce up to 100 tons of hydrogen per year. Over the period from April 2025 to December 2026, climate-neutral hydrogen is to be produced from synthesis gas at the site in Ebersbach an der Fils using a special technology and_CO2 is to be made usable as a recycled product. The region is covering 4.29 million euros of the total costs of 8.61 million euros.

New technical concepts are to be incorporated into lessons at Backnang Commercial School. PICEA technology is to be used here to ensure a self-sufficient energy supply for the hydrogen showroom (HyLab). Surplus photovoltaic electricity will be used to generate green hydrogen, which can be stored and converted back into electricity. Other partners are Rems-Murr-Immobilien Management GmbH and the Rems-Murr district as project coordinator. The 15-month project is expected to cost 212,300 euros, of which 117,300 will be funded by the region.