In Bosbüll, North Frisia, JP Joule GmbH has started hydrogen production in what the company says is the “largest German hydrogen mobility project”, called “eFarm”. Green electricity produced locally from older solar and wind turbines is used to produce green hydrogen.
The two founders of the GP-Joule Group Ove Petersen (CEO) and Heinrich Gärtner (CTO) were present at the ceremony, as were Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer and Jan Philipp Albrecht, Schleswig-Holstein's Minister for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment, Nature and Digitalization. The combination of regionally produced wind and solar power with regional energy consumption creates “value creation and jobs and also promotes acceptance of the energy transition,” said Ove Petersen.
The hydrogen will one day supply gas stations in Husum and Niebüll. The groundbreaking ceremony on the Husum site of Team Energie GmbH & Co. KG took place at the end of June. The gas station is scheduled to go into operation in September this year and will in future power fuel cell buses, trucks and cars with green energy from the eFarm project. The groundbreaking ceremony for the first hydrogen filling station in Niebüll took place in May.
The waste heat generated during hydrogen production is used in a district heating network in Bosbüll to heat commercial and private buildings, resulting in an electrolysis efficiency of over 95 percent, according to the company.
“eFarm” is financed by GLS Bank (consortium leader), Nord-Ostsee Sparkasse and VR Bank Westend eG with a long-term total of 4,4 million euros. The Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure funded the project with eight million euros.
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GP Joule puts hydrogen mobility project into operation in northern Germany / © GP Joule
