Sustainable infrastructure systems with green hydrogen in Weimar
In the future public transportation and refuse collection vehicles in Weimar will be powered by green hydrogen. The Energy Systems team made a significant contribution to this. As early as 2020, the group supported the Kommunalservice Weimar in applying for a hydrogen-powered garbage truck.
Together with industrial partners, the endowed professorship in Energy Systems has been involved in the research and development of hydrogen infrastructure systems since 2015. It is therefore all the more pleasing that the first major hydrogen infrastructure project in Thuringia is now being implemented in Weimar, as a cooperation project of Stadtwerke Weimar Stadtversorgungs-GmbH, Thüringer Energie AG (TEAG), Stadtwirtschaft Weimar GmbH and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Using green electricity, hydrogen is to be produced in the north of Weimar with an electrolysis plant and used in public transportation and for waste collection vehicles. Specifically, the team will be supporting TEAG with simulation studies on the operation of the electrolyser and with laboratory tests using the new 5 KW electrolyser of the group, which was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
The hydrogen project in Weimar, which was presented to the public on 29.03.2022 with a press conference at Stadtwerke Weimar, fits perfectly with the goals of the Thuringian State Strategy on Hydrogen, the preparation of which was supported by the Energy Systems group via a study for the Thüringer Energie- und GreenTech-Agentur. The project achieves a regionalised fuel supply and provides an important step away from fossil fuels in the mobility sector.