Project Information
Demo4Grid
Production of green hydrogen and regulation of the power grid
As part of the EU Demo4Grid project, Europe’s largest pressurised alkaline electrolyser for the production of green hydrogen is being built at MPREIS in Völs near Innsbruck and researched for use in electricity grid regulation. The aim of the project is to set up and demonstrate a technical solution that can use Pressurised Alkaline Electrolyser (PAE) technology to provide grid balancing services under real operating and market conditions.
The Demo4Grid project is therefore also the decisive large-scale demonstration of previous small-scale trials with PAE systems. The first related EU research project was ELYGRID and the subsequent ELYIntegration project. These two projects delivered promising results for the development of PAE for the provision of grid services with dynamic profiles and thus also the realisation of the large-scale trial at MPREIS in Tyrol.
Demo4Grid project objectives:
A technical solution that fulfils all the core requirements for the provision of grid balancing services with a large PAE system in direct cooperation with grid operators.
To seek a market-orientated solution to provide value-added services and revenues for the operational strategy that can achieve commercial success in the provision of grid services and, together with the hydrogen application, create a business case.
Evaluate the reproducibility and feasibility of various business scenarios after the project has been completed.
DEMO4GRID
Green hydrogen from regional resources
Green hydrogen from regional resources for industrial heat and mobility is the overarching theme of the extended MPREIS hydrogen business case project, which is therefore spearheading the development of a green hydrogen economy for Central Europe.
The HyWest research centre is the content catalyst and the Green Energy Center Europe in Innsbruck is the regional dissemination centre for this important project, in which the regional protagonists and the European project partners will work together responsibly over a project duration of 5 years.
