With the creation of a ‘hydrogen valley’, GreenH2Atlantic will significantly contribute to the sustainability goals of the region and Portugal, providing an important contribution to the European energy roadmap.

Under the name GreenH2Atlantic, a consortium of 13 companies and research partners are selected by the European Commission as part of the Green Deal to develop a renewable hydrogen production hub at 100 MW scale in Sines, Portugal.
The consortium supporting this project includes McPhy and companies such as EDP, Galp, ENGIE, Bondalti, Martifer, Vestas Systems A/S and Efacec, and academic and research partners such as ISQ, INESC-TEC, DLR and CEA, in addition to a public-private cluster, Axelera.

GreenH2Atlantic was one of the three projects selected by the Horizon 2020 – Green Deal Call to demonstrate the viability of green hydrogen production on an unprecedented scale.
The 30 million euros grant will help to finance the construction of the hydrogen plant, located in the coal-fired power plant area in Sines. The construction should start in 2024 and operation is expected to begin in 2026, subject to securing the necessary authorizations by the authorities.

McPhy has been selected as preferred partner, with its innovative electrolysis technology “Augmented McLyzer” which will convert green electricity by electrolysis into more than 41 tons of clean hydrogen per day. This 100 MW electrolyzer will be composed of innovative, scalable and fast-cycling 16 MW modules designed, manufactured and integrated by McPhy. The electrolysis platform is to supply low-carbon hydrogen for industrial (refinery) and energy (injection in the gas grid) uses, upscaling the link between renewables and industry, mobility and energy applications.

Low-carbon hydrogen is expected to become one of the pillars of economic growth, for it is a decisive energy vector in the decarbonization process for the main sectors of the economy.
This project will enable the transition of a former coal-fired power plant into an innovative renewable hydrogen production hub and create a ‘hydrogen valley’ centered in Sines. GreenH2Atlantic will significantly contribute to the sustainability goals of the region and Portugal, providing an important contribution to Europe’s decarbonization and energy transition strategies.

Recently, in December 2022, The GreenH2Atlantic project, has been granted the PIN (Potential National Interest) status.

Jupiter 1000 is the first Power to Gas project in France, aiming to store and valorize renewable electricity by injecting hydrogen and synthetic methane into the gas transmission network.

 

McPhy offer tailor-made solutions to ensure a balance between energy supply and demand in the In the China Hebei province’ networks.

The solution delivered to Hebei Province is a compact 4 MW hydrogen generation equipment including two McLyzer 400-30 modules, transformers, power electronics, a purification and drying unit, as well as a solid-state storage module, initiating a complete chain of renewable electricity surplus valorization in the heart of China.

The McPhy system converts and stores renewable electricity surplus produced by a 200 MW wind farm into clean hydrogen. This project represents a major reference for McPhy, which confirms its ability to execute projects for the massive conversion of renewable energy into hydrogen for injection into the grid or as a raw material. As well as its ability to manage major international projects.

Perfectly adapted to the variability of renewable energies, McLyzer rapid response electrolyzers offer energy companies a relevant solution to ensure the stability of electricity networks.

This project provides an efficient and competitive answer to the issues raised by renewable energies, which are intermittent in nature and need adapted storage and valorization solutions.

“This project will contribute to the development of renewable electricity sources in Germany, the world’s second largest renewable energy producer, by offering a competitive solution to valorize to production surplus”

The 6 MW alkaline electrolyzer is a key component of e-gas power plant technology, making it possible to extract hydrogen from water using surplus electricity. Through its expertise, McPhy Energy’s subsidy in Wildau (Germany) has further optimized this technology ( today known as “Alcaline 2.0” electrolysis) and developed in-depth experience ensuring its integration into energy infrastructures such as electrical or natural gas networks.

The plant therefore uses surplus green electricity to produce hydrogen from water in three alkaline electrolyzers. The hydrogen is reacted with CO₂ to produce synthetic methane, or Audi e-gas.

It is virtually identical to the fossil fuel and natural gas, and is distributed through an existing infrastructure, the German natural gas network, to CNG filling stations for Audi’s A3 g-tron series. Audi produces up to 1,000 metric tons of e-gas per year, chemically binding some 2,800 metric tons of CO₂. This roughly corresponds to the amount that a forest of over 220,000 beech trees absorbs in one year. Water and oxygen are the only by-products.

Located at the Berlin Airport, this demonstration project is designed to produce “green” hydrogen from a surplus of wind power using an electrolyzer and using solid-state storage to create a hydrogen cogeneration plant and hydrogen filling-station infrastructure for buses and cars.

Renewable energy from the Enertrag wind farm near the new airport in Berlin will be converted into hydrogen by a McPhy electrolyzer, to smooth out energy fluctuations and store surplus wind energy.

Total and Linde will build the infrastructure necessary to distribute this fuel to buses and automobiles powered by fuel cells.

In addition, new-generation McPhy solid-state hydrogen-storage will allow the 2G power station to provide electricity or heat from stored hydrogen, flexibly and on demand.

The interests of this project are multiple:

• To produce zero-emission fuel for cars or buses running on hydrogen and/or supply other hydrogen filling stations.
• To re-inject surplus renewable energy into the natural gas network or the power grid.
• To optimize a system that is subject to high constraints with regard to electrical power supply and implement several technological elements.

The objective of the project is to evaluate and validate the technical and economic relevance of home energy solutions using a natural gas and hydrogen component.

Launched in 2014, GRHYD is a project to inject hydrogen into the territory’s natural gas distribution network in order to meet the needs of the residents of the new neighborhood of Cappelle-la-Grand in terms of heating, hot water and cooking. Approximately 100 homes are supplied with a mixture of hydrogen and natural gas, in variable proportions of hydrogen and less than 20% by volume. The objective of the project is to evaluate and validate the technical and economic relevance of home energy solutions using a natural gas and hydrogen component.

GRHYD is coordinated by ENGIE in association with 10 other partners, it’s supported by the government as part of the Future Investment Program operated by ADEME and labeled by the Tenerrdis competitiveness cluster.

As the first Power to Gas demonstrator in France, GRHYD represents a large-scale demonstration stage, which is the necessary transition between the previous experiments and the ambition of future industrialization of this process.

Inaugurated in 2018, the experimentation ended in 2020.