Germany's Siemens Energy is to start industrial-scale production of electrolysers for green hydrogen in Berlin.
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Start of production at the location Huttenstrasse in Berlin’s Moabit locality is scheduled for 2023. At this site, the complete infrastructure of an existing production hall can be used.
New production lines for the electrolysers worth €30 million are being set up on 2,000 square Today, the site mainly manufactures gas turbines, which are among the most powerful and efficient in the world. These can already be operated with up to 50 percent hydrogen, and by 2030 complete hydrogen operation should be possible.
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Christian Bruch, President and CEO of Siemens Energy, commented: “With the new production facility for hydrogen electrolysers, we are reinforcing our claim to play an active role in shaping the energy transition.
"To this end, we are pooling our knowledge in the field of various energy technologies in Berlin. For us, hydrogen is an important component of the future energy world. For this to be economically viable, the manufacturing costs for electrolysers must be significantly reduced. With our new production facility, we are helping to make hydrogen competitive sooner.”
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At the Berlin location, the individual electrolyser cells will be manufactured and combined to form functional modules, or “stacks.” Depending on the required capacity, these will then be assembled into larger process-based units. In Germany, this last stage will take place at Mülheim, which is closely associated with the new Berlin plant and complements it perfectly.
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