A Siemens Energy industrial gas turbine has been operated on 100% renewable hydrogen in France.
Installed at paper packaging company Smurfit Kappa’s site in Saillat-sur-Vienne, the HYFLEXPOWER project saw hydrogen produced by a 1MW electrolyser which was then stored in a tank for use by the Siemens SGT-400 turbine.
Made up on Siemens Energy, ENGIE, Centrax, Arttic, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and four European Universities, the project aimed to demonstrate the viability of using hydrogen as a flexible energy storage medium.
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