With the commissioning of the project “Wind Hydrogen Salzgitter – WindH2," Salzgitter AG is starting to make green hydrogen with electricity generated by wind power on the site of its strip mill in Salzgitter.

The newly built facilities were presented to the public on Thursday in Salzgitter, with representatives from politics and other industries attending, The cost of the entire project, which is carried out in alliance with partners Avacon and Linde, amounts to around EUR € 50 million ($60m), Kallanish learns.

Avacon, a member of the E.on Group, operates seven newly built wind turbines with an output totalling 30 megawatts on the premises of the mill. It has installed two Siemens 1.25 MW PEM electrolyser units on its plant site that are capable of producing around 450 cubic metres per hour of hydrogen.

Today’s steel production already harnesses hydrogen for annealing processes as well as in the hot dip galvanizing lines. Industrial gas producer Linde is currently delivering hydrogen by truck and will continue to secure coverage of hydrogen. A test run is currently being made of all the facilities.