Multinational pilot project to drive green hydrogen in Luxembourg.
A consortium of 17 partners from seven countries including the Grand Duchy on Monday launched the Luxembourg Hydrogen Valley (LuxHyVal) project in the south of the country.
The project, which has a total budget of €39 million, aims to start production of up to 1,750kg of green hydrogen per day for use in industry and mobility applications via a six-megawatt electrolyser facility in the Bascharage industrial park in 2026.
The plant will be built by Luxembourg engineering company Paul Wurth and operated by Enovos and Luxenergie, both subsidiaries of Encevo Group.
Luxembourg bus operator Sales-Lentz and regional bus network TICE also plan to upgrade part of their fleet to fuel cell hydrogen (FCH) buses as part of the LuxHyVal plans.
The green hydrogen produced in Bascharage will also allow high-tech engineering company Ceratizit to replace its use of natural gas-derived hydrogen.
LuxHyVal is expected to be funded with some €8 million from the Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, a European Union public-private partnership supporting research and innovation in hydrogen technologies.
The project is being coordinated by the University of Luxembourg, led by Bradley Ladewig, who holds a professorship in energy process engineering funded by Paul Wurth.
Ladewig at Monday’s launch, said:
We will need hydrogen to meet the EU emission targets, and with LuxHyVal, we are trying to make concrete advances towards a sustainable and cleaner future.
“Building large-scale industrial infrastructure takes time and effort: we need to start now.”
Minister of the Economy Lex Delles said that it is one of his priorities to connect Luxembourg to a European hydrogen grid to guarantee access to competitive, climate-friendly hydrogen. A measure that was already announced in the government’s coalition programme in November last year.
A second stage of the project may see the expertise acquired by designing, building and operating the green hydrogen ecosystem used as a direct model for replicating valleys in the Czech Republic and Ukraine.
Those two countries, alongside Germany, Spain, France and Australia are all involved in the consortium.
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