Innio Group’s Innovative Hydrogen CHP Plant Wins Cogen Europe Award 2024

Green Solutions Innio Group’s Innovative Hydrogen CHP Plant Wins Cogen Europe Award 2024

2024-11-29 Source: Press release Innio Group 2 min Reading Time

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The 1 MW-class hydrogen combined heat and power plant by the Innio Group has been awarded the Cogen Europe Recognition Award 2024 under the Technology and Innovation category. The project can convert stored hydrogen from surplus renewable production in summer back into electricity and heat for the wintertime.

Innio Group has recently been awarded the Cogen Europe Recognition Award 2024 in the Technology and Innovation category for its 1 MW-class hydrogen combined heat and power plant. (Source: Innio Group) — Innio Group has recently been awarded the Cogen Europe Recognition Award 2024 in the Technology and Innovation category for its 1 MW-class hydrogen combined heat and power plant.
(Source: Innio Group)

Brussels/Belgium – Innio Group has recently been awarded the Cogen Europe Recognition Award 2024 in the Technology and Innovation category for its 1 MW-class hydrogen combined heat and power (CHP) plant. Powered by green hydrogen, Innio Group collaborated with Rag Austria to develop this project and operate the hydrogen engine for the start of this heating season.

At Rag Austria’s site, green hydrogen is produced in summer through water electrolysis from surplus renewable production and stored in the world's first underground hydrogen storage in a porous reservoir in Rubensdorf near Gampern, Austria. This storage facility can hold up to 4.2 GWh of surplus solar power in the form of hydrogen. To make this hydrogen usable in winter, Rag Austria selected Innio Group’s Jenbacher technology to convert it back to electricity and heat for the site’s local requirements.

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“This award celebrates our teams' achievements and highlights our collaboration with Rag Austria in addressing three critical aspects of green energy supply: storage, transport, and generation. By harnessing the summer sun for winter energy, the project serves as a blueprint for utilizing green hydrogen to sustainably balance seasonal energy demand,” emphasized Andreas Eberharter, VP - Product Management & Marketing for Innio Group's Jenbacher brand, who was presented the award at the Cogen Annual Conference.

With this flagship project, Innio Group and Rag Austria are taking an important step towards net zero. Working together, they are helping solve one of the central challenges of the energy transition: the seasonal storage of surplus renewable electric power from the summer months for the energy-intensive winter. At the same time, the Jenbacher CHP plant in Gampern is an important showcase project for the subsequent upscaling and gradual replacement of natural gas with hydrogen – and thus serving as a blueprint for the transition to purely emission-free power generation all year.

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