EWE Major Hydrogen Project In Emden: Project Management By Drees & Sommer.
In Emden, Lower Saxony, the northern German energy supplier EWE plans to build one of the largest hydrogen production plants in Europe by 2027. EWE has commissioned the Stuttgart-based consulting firm Drees & Sommer SE, which specializes in infrastructure, construction and real estate, to manage the major project.
Drees & Sommer brings project management and hydrogen expertise
The Stuttgart-based consulting company has been specifically commissioned with project management, approval management and engineering management. In addition, the planning and consulting company has accompanied the tendering and awarding of the electrolyzer as the main component of the plant.
Kerstin Kuwan from EWE, the project manager responsible for Emden, siad:
I am pleased that Drees & Sommer is on board for the project. We are relying on a reliable service provider who has many years of experience in managing large-scale projects.
Alexander Stubinitzky, Head of Hydrogen and SynFuels at Drees & Sommer, said:
The project is very complex.
“All trades have to be scaled, there are many interfaces that have to be properly organized during implementation. This is very demanding in technical, organizational and time-related terms.” Project management is therefore particularly important in order to implement the project within the cost, time and quality framework. This is a particular strength of Drees & Sommer, because the company brings project management experience from the successful implementation of numerous complex large-scale projects, coupled with technical expertise in the field of hydrogen production.
The planned 320-megawatt electrolysis plant in Emden is expected to produce up to 26,000 tons of green hydrogen annually for various industrial applications in the region, particularly for the steel industry. The green hydrogen in Emden is mainly generated using wind energy.
Project helps avoid grid bottlenecks In
addition to the project in Emden, EWE is also planning to build an electrolysis plant in Bremen with a capacity of 50 megawatts, which will be implemented by Stadtwerke Bremen (SWB), a wholly owned subsidiary of EWE. Both projects make an active contribution to avoiding grid bottlenecks and are therefore an important pillar of the energy transition. The two electrolysis projects are part of the large-scale EWE hydrogen project “Clean Hydrogen Coastline” (CHC). This combines the production, transport, storage and use of green hydrogen. With CHC, EWE applied for funding in February 2021 as part of the European IPCEI program (Important Project of Common European Interest) and was awarded the contract. EWE was able to accept the funding handover of 500 million euros from Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck in Berlin in mid-July this year. Of the 500 million euros in funding, 350 million euros are federal funds and 150 million euros are state funds. The total investment volume for CHC amounts to more than 800 million euros.
In addition to the construction of system-serving generation plants in Emden and Bremen, EWE plans to convert a natural gas cavern in Huntorf for the storage of hydrogen, build and convert several pipeline sections and use green hydrogen across sectors on an industrial scale, for example in the steel industry.
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