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VNG will begin testing a 30-MW electrolyser by Q3, 2025

Eastern German gas company VNG is majority owned by utility EnBW. On Wednesday, it announced that in 2025, the company will begin testing operations at a 30-megawatt (MW) electrolysis facility as part of a green hydrogen value chain.

VNG has intensified its green gas strategy and acquired alternative sources of gas to replace Russia, who in 2022 will stop exporting to the West. This will affect VNG as well as its competitors SEFE and Uniper.

In a statement, Hans-Joachim Polk, technical director of the company said: "We plan to commission and test the 30 MW Electrolyser during the third quarter."

The VNG plant in Bad Lauchstaedt, Saxony-Anhalt, will produce green hydrogen from wind power. TotalEnergies is the anchor customer.

Hydrogen is greener when it's produced using renewable electricity by electrolysing water rather than by removing it from natural gases and releasing CO2. It leaves only oxygen and water as by-products after burning.

Polk stated that "the plant will then feed 2,700 tonnes green hydrogen per year into the grid for commercial use at... TotalEnergies refinery." (Reporting and editing by Kirstiknolle, $1 = 0.9268 Euros)

(source: Reuters)