New hydrogen engine from INNIO ready for operation after passing all tests
16 September 2020
INNIO and the German utility HanseWerk have reached a key milestone in their joint project focused on establishing a 1 MW class hydrogen cogeneration power plant in the centre of Hamburg. The prototype for the new engine to be used in this pilot plant has successfully passed all test runs at INNIO’s development test bench in Jenbach.
The background to this flagship project is Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein striving to establish Northern Germany as the centre of the country’s hydrogen technology. This involves not only driving forward the future use of hydrogen technology in cogeneration plants, but also providing a reliable supply of green hydrogen to customers across the power, heat and transportation sectors, which the City of Hamburg wants to achieve.
Additionally, the project also involves simulating the admixture of hydrogen into the natural gas grid. The conversion of the existing cogeneration plant will take place in the fall of 2020. Similarly, to the Hamburg-Othmarschen cogeneration plant, other existing gas engine power plants could be converted to run on a hydrogen-gas mixture or on 100 percent hydrogen in the future.
