HydroNet - Climate protection model region Sauerland
Project duration
October 2024 - September 2029
Initial situation
Implementation of the pioneering "HydroNet" energy transition project will start on October 1, 2024. The funding commitment from federal funds was made as part of the 8th Energy Research Program. The five-year project aims to transform an entire region in the Sauerland region with its various stakeholders from industrial SMEs, science, politics and administration into a sustainable hydrogen economy. The large-scale project will develop new products, solutions and findings for the planning, development and operation of an energy-optimized hydrogen economy by the end of 2029.
Objective
The aim is to largely replace fossil fuels in the Arnsberg region and for the partners to become players in the energy transition as flexible building blocks of a future energy system. In a transdisciplinary cooperation of research institutions, commercial enterprises and administration, the development of an entire region towards the use of hydrogen for regional value creation is being established. In a total of ten work packages, the project is pursuing an integrative and interdisciplinary approach across different value chains and sectors for the first time.
The Chair of Resource and Energy Systems at TU Dortmund University is leading the project's investigation into multidisciplinary needs for the development of a sustainable regional hydrogen infrastructure (work package 8) in the Sauerland model region and beyond. The effects of regional hydrogen infrastructures are being examined in detail in terms of sustainable spatial effects and an optimization model for hydrogen infrastructure planning is being developed. In addition, long-term scenarios for infrastructure expansion will be derived and the ecological effects during the realization phase of the project will be evaluated. This will make the hydrogen ramp-up industrially tangible, realistic and future-proof.
HydroNet website: www.hydronet.energy
Further information can be found at https://www.westenergie.de/newsroom/article/pm-hydronet
Funding
Federal funding as part of the BMWK's 8th energy research program "Research missions for the energy transition" - here: Mission Hydrogen 2030
Network partners
- Westnetz GmbH (coordinator)
- A+E Keller GmbH & Co. KG
- ENERTRAG SE
- Münster University of Applied Sciences
- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology
- Lindemann & Störmer GmbH & Co. KG
- Lobbe Umweltservice GmbH & Co. KG
- RECOM Services GmbH
- Darmstadt University of Technology
- Dortmund University of Technology
- TÜV NORD EnSys GmbH & Co. KG
- WEPA Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG.