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The hydrogen ramp-up in Europe needs real cross-border projects. This is why bayernets GmbH, Bayerngas GmbH, MEGGLE GmbH & Co. KG, RAG Austria AG and Shell Energy Deutschland GmbH have launched the project "H2 cross border". The project partners have now succeeded in implementing the first hydrogen delivery from Austria to Germany.
In the European reference project EUH2STARS, the consortium leader RAG, together with LINZ AG, AGGM Austrian Gas Grid Management AG, Axiom and the Energy Institute at the JKU Linz, is demonstrating for the first time in the Austrian part of the project, how urban centres can safely use the summer sun in winter in the form of green heat and electricity all year round – without any CO2 emissions.
In the flagship region for 100% green energy supply, the RAG Energy Valley in Krift near Kremsmünster (Upper Austria), Austria's first methane electrolysis plant in an industrial environment is being put into operation today. This pioneering technology will be used to split the raw material methane (natural gas) into hydrogen and high-purity, solid carbon without CO2 emissions using solar power.
Large-volume storage of hydrogen enables energy transition while maintaining security of supply. With “Underground Sun Storage“, the world‘s first hydrogen storage facility in an underground porous reservoir, RAG Austria AG – Renewables and Gas – and its project partners are setting new international standards.
In the lead project "Underground Sun Storage 2030" (USS 2030), the safe, seasonal and large-scale storage of renewable energy in the form of hydrogen in underground gas reservoirs is being developed. In addition, all partners involved in the project will jointly gain valuable technical and economic knowledge for the development of a secure hydrogen supply.
In order to accelerate and ramp up the production of green hydrogen for Europe, which is vital for a climate-neutral future European energy supply, the international industry partnership consisting of Bayerngas GmbH, bayernets GmbH, Eco-Optima LLC, Open Grid Europe GmbH and RAG Austria AG has designed the "H2EU+Store" project.
From December 2020, the “Underground Sun Conversion – Flexible Storage” (USC-FlexStore) project will investigate seasonal storage of large quantities of renewable energy to be made available year round.
World-first research project headed by RAG will produce renewable natural gas from solar and wind power, 1,000m underground
RAG, Ennshafen OÖ GmbH and Iveco Austria today opened Austria’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) filling station at Ennshafen port as part of the Zukunftsforum LNG conference. The event was attended by the Deputy Governor of Upper Austria, Michael Strugl, as well as other prominent guests from the worlds of politics and business.