Let's hit the gas towards a renewable future!

Green hydrogen has gone from strength to strength regarding its role in the transition towards a sustainable and fossil-free society. This has become ever so clear with the EU’s heavy investments in sustainable development, where green hydrogen is highlighted as a cornerstone for achieving a climate-neutral Europa by 2050. Green hydrogen can be used to transform the transport sector and manufacturing – two sectors that account for the majority of all carbon dioxide emissions. In the transport sector, hydrogen gas can be used as a fuel for large goods vehicles and shipping, where batteries aren’t sufficient. And in the manufacturing industry, green hydrogen can replace the fossil-based hydrogen that is currently used in the majority of all industrial and chemical processes. Another advantage of green hydrogen is that it can be used for energy storage, for example when solar and wind power produces more energy than the grid needs.

To produce green hydrogen, you only really need two ingredients: electricity and water. At Rabbalshede Kraft, we can produce green hydrogen directly in our renewable parks, where the electricity from mainly our wind turbines acts as the green engine in hydrogen production. It works like this: we build a hydrogen plant adjacent to one of our renewable parks and connect it to the park’s internal electricity grid. Then, we can either feed the electricity generated in the park to the grid or directly into an electrolyser, which, together with water, forms 100% green hydrogen and residual products in the form of oxygen and residual heat.

Since we own all our renewable parks, we have the unique ability to produce green hydrogen in-house – all the way from electron to molecule. The electricity produced in our parks can either support the power grid when there is a deficit of electricity or be used for hydrogen production when there is a surplus. And since our facilities are strategically located near highways, we can easily deliver the hydrogen directly to consumers with the help of short road transport or pipelines. The residual products that arise in production can in turn be sold on the district heating network or to other nearby users, such as local fish farms. The result is a closed and renewable ecosystem where nothing goes to waste.