Energy Park Bad Lauchstädt: Green hydrogen from Central Germany
The Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park innovation project is testing the intelligent production of green hydrogen from wind power as well as its storage, transportation, marketing and use on an industrial scale in central Germany. The energy park thus represents Germany’s first complete H2 value chain in a closed cycle and is making a significant contribution to researching the future technology of green hydrogen and bringing it to market maturity.
Construction of the eight wind turbines has already been completed and the topping-out ceremony for the electrolysis building took place in March 2024. The installation of Sunfire’s 30 MW large-scale electrolysis plant will begin in 2024 and commissioning of the electrolysis plant is planned for the third quarter of 2025. From 2025 onwards, the hydrogen produced will initially be supplied to users in the chemical industry. TotalEnergies Raffinerie Mitteldeutschland in Leuna will be the first official customer, with the first supply scheduled for the second half of 2025. The partners in the project include Terrawatt Planungsgesellschaft mbH, Uniper, VNG Handel und Vertrieb GmbH, VNG Gasspeicher GmbH, ONTRAS Gastransport GmbH, DBI Gastechnologisches Institut gGmbH Freiberg, and VNG AG.