Kiel (energate) - The public utility company Stadtwerke Kiel is converting its coastal power station to hydrogen. Together with the Tyrolean company Innio, the utility is working to convert the large combined heat and power plant to green hydrogen by 2035. The Austrian company Innio Jenbacher specialises in the manufacture of gas engines and combined heat and power plants. The manufacturer's engines are now to be converted from natural gas to green hydrogen, the municipal utility company announced.
According to Stadtwerke Kiel, the 190 MW plant is the first of its size in the world to achieve carbon-neutral operation. Both companies have signed a memorandum of understanding for the conversion. An important prerequisite for the plan is that green hydrogen "will be available in time, in sufficient quantities and at economic conditions". The original goal of the municipal utility as part of an "Eight-Point Programme: Course to Climate Neutrality" was to generate electricity and district heating in a completely climate-neutral way by 2040 at the latest. With its hydrogen project, the utility is now bringing this date forward by five years. /am
You can read more about the project in today's gas add-on: "We are ten years ahead of the German government's climate targets."
