Germany Real Laboratory Tender

WESTKUSTE 100 is a new real-world laboratory for the energy transition the first with a focus on hydrogen technologies. With the real laboratories of the energy transition the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy is accelerating the application of innovations from research in practice. Federal Minister Peter Altmaier announced the 20 winners of the ideas competition in July 2019. Altmaier I am very pleased that the real laboratory WESTKSTE100 is already implementing building blocks of the National Hydrogen Strategy. Highly innovative pioneering projects such as the WESTKSTE100 real laboratory help us to take on technological leadership in the field of hydrogen . That is good for the West Coast region in Schleswig-Holstein and for Germany as a technology location. With the National Hydrogen Strategy the Federal Government decided in June 2020 to anchor hydrogen as the energy source of the future in the energy system and to tap the industrial policy potential. The strategy sets ambitious goals and includes various measures to speed up the generation transport and use of hydrogen. WESTKSTE100 will research develop and demonstrate the generation of hydrogen from renewable energies storage and transport in one system and demonstrate it on an industrial scale.The real laboratories of the energy transition are part of the 7th energy research program of the federal government. As part of the program the federal government supports companies and research institutions that develop new technologies and solutions for the energy transition and implement them under real conditions and on an industrial scale. The real laboratories as the link between technology development and market penetration should advance the transfer from research to the market faster.In the WESTKSTE100 real laboratory in Schleswig-Holstein the focus is on the production of hydrogen from renewable energies. The experts involved are also testing how hydrogen can be fed into the gas network safely transported and reliably stored in an underground cavern. In addition the project partners are investigating how the by-product oxygen can make the combustion process of the Lgerdorf cement plant lower in emissions and thus more climate-friendly. In terms of a sustainable circular economy the carbon dioxide generated in the combustion process is also used as a raw material to produce the chemical raw material methanol. The findings should be transferable to other applications.