An underground hydrogen storage project with an eventual planned capacity of over 10,000 tonnes has been launched in Europe.
The FrHyGe project will be supported and funded €43m ($46m) by the European Union, to validate the underground storage of hydrogen in salt caverns on an industrial scale.
With €20m ($21m) funded through the Clean Hydrogen Partnership, FrHyGe aims to deploy an industrial demonstrator in Manosque, France, which is expected to store 6,000 tonnes of hydrogen in two caverns, and then be replicated in Harsefeld, Germany, which will have a capacity of 5,200 tonnes.
With Storengy acting as project coordinator, H2 View understands the initiative will run from 2024 to 2029, before it enters its operational phase and allows for the commercial storage of hydrogen.
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