Germany – RWE has commissioned Sunfire and Bilfinger to built the third electrolyster plant for the GET H2 Nukleus project in Lingen. As part of the project RWE is building a 300-megawatt plant for producing green hydrogen. Two of the three electrolysers with a capacity of 100 megawatts (MW) had already been ordered. Now Sunfire is to supply a 100-MW alkaline electrolyser.
Sunfire is already a contract partner of RWE. A 10-MW alkaline electrolyser by the Dresden company is part of a pilot plant on the site of the Emsland gas-fired power plant, where RWE is currently testing two electrolysis technologies (PEM and alkaline).
Bilfinger will be the solution partner for the integration of electrolysis. To this end, Bilfinger is taking on extensive planning tasks as well as the delivery and installation of the ancillary process technology systems such as water and hydrogen treatment, compression and control technology.
As part of the GET H2 Nukleus project, RWE collaborates primarily with the grid operators Nowega and OGE to connect its production facilities for green hydrogen to industrial consumers in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2025, the energy company is to commission its first 100-MW electrolyser. The capacity of the plants is to be expanded in 100-MW increments to 300 MW by 2027.
From 2027, hydrogen from Lingen will also be able to be fed into a hydrogen cavern storage facility being built by RWE Gas Storage West in Gronau-Epe.
