Verbund outlines 300MW green hydrogen project
Planned facility in eastern Austria is first to be unveiled since government published national strategy in June
Austrian state-controlled power company Verbund and regional utility Burgenland Energie have set out joint plans to develop a 300MW green hydrogen project in the country’s eastern state of Burgenland. The facility, to be powered by wind and solar energy, would produce 9,000t/yr of hydrogen in a first phase from 2026, rising to full production of 40,000t/yr in 2030, the companies say. The project is the first to be announced since the Austrian government set out a national hydrogen strategy in June. The strategy calls for 1GW of electrolyser capacity by 2030. The government expects the country’s hydrogen demand to increase by a factor of four or five by 2040, requiring both local production a

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