Projects

The conditions at sea are ideal for generating renewable electricity. The wind turbines are generally much larger than on land, meaning that more green electricity is produced, and far larger areas are potentially available for generating wind energy.

However, not only electricity but also hydrogen can be produced cost-effectively and sustainably offshore. The H₂Mare flagship project is therefore researching the offshore production of "green hydrogen" and other power-to-X products. In the future, a completely new type of plant will be applied at sea: an offshore wind energy plant with an integrated electrolyser for the direct conversion of electricity. The entire value chain will be considered: from wind energy generation and hydrogen production through to the conversion of hydrogen into methane, liquid hydrocarbons, methanol or ammonia up to consumption by industry or the energy sector. This means that various industrial follow-up utilization and storage options are possible. The direct coupling of wind turbine and electrolyser is intended to minimize the costs of hydrogen production. This is because infrastructure costs can be significantly reduced without a connection to the electricity grid. In addition, the decoupling of electrolysis and the grid reduces the burden on local grid structures.

The project “H₂Mare” aims to lay the foundation for technological leadership and to support the achievement of climate goals through accelerated greenhouse gas reduction.

Within four years, H₂Mare - consisting of four subprojects with a total of 35 partners - aims to lay the foundations for technological leadership and to support the achievement of climate goals through accelerated greenhouse gas reduction.

Our task in the project is to develop a concept for the black start capability of the electrolysis platform, to research concepts and methods for the inherently explosion-proof design of the platform and to develop models for systemic digital twins and methods for the automated analysis of functional safety. These will be used to optimize the platform concept from an economic and safety point of view.