Hydrogen hybride power plant

The ENERTRAG Hybrid Power Plant will prove in practice, that the attainment of a safe and sustainable energy supply based on renewable sources – specially on wind energy – is really possible. This power plant produces environmentallyneutral hydrogen from wind energy, and reconverts it, on demand, into electricity again. So, it will become possible to supply the grid with renewable sources in tune with the demand. The wind forecast – an important factor for the management of an electric grid – will be, by the use of this hybrid power plant, so much assisted, that the difference between the expected electricity production and the real one will be reduced to an absolute minimum. The power plant shows how different energy devices based on renewable sources, for which a demand forecast, as well as an online control system already exists, can be integrated by the use of hydrogen. This technology opens the way to the long-term commercialization of renewable energy in a demandoriented way, as well as to its use as regulating energy. This regulating energy will always be necessary for equalizing the oscillations of the grid derived from the time-differences between offer and demand. Also, another economically and technologically highly interesting market segment, as it is the direct supply of high volumes of hydrogen to the industry and to the transport market, can also be reached.
The hydrogen, as a CO2-free fuel, can be applied at the transport sector. In the frame of a conception developed by the German Federal Ministry for Environment (BMU) and the German Federal Ministry for Transport and Urban Development (BMVBS); from years 2009 / 2010, several mass-produced hydrogen-fuelled products will have to enter the commercial market, in order to substantially increase the demand of hydrogen as fuel. In accordance to that program, ENERTRAG has already established a cooperation contract with TOTAL Deutschland GmbH for studying the potential and production costs of the hydrogen generation based on wind energy.

The attached document is the brochure of the power plant.