From Hildburg Bruns
With respect: The thing looks like an open freezer from the back. But it is the energy transition made in Moabit! At the start, Chancellor Scholz, Minister Habeck and Gov. Wegner sit in the front row.
Huttenstrasse, a former turbine hall: This is where Siemens Energy is building the heart of the future-oriented hydrogen production. Behind transparent walls, robots coat and press membranes – the so-called stack is ready.
Parts for gas turbines have previously been manufactured in the hydrogen hall Photo: Ralf Günther
30 million euros were invested in the new production line and the new production facility has 60 employees.
24 of these stacks are in an electrolyzer. The hydrogen produced can replace gas as an energy source in power plants Photo: Ralf Günther
1,300 of these head-high cabinets rolled from Berlin to Mühlheim in the first year of production. There, 24 of them are assembled into an electrolyser – the hydrogen machine.
It splits distilled water into its components oxygen and hydrogen using green electricity. Without releasing the climate killer gas CO2.
View of the production hall, which was equipped with 30 million euros Photo: Ralf Günther
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (65, SPD): “A good day for Berlin, Germany, Europe. Our industry’s move towards climate neutrality is what makes it possible for an industrial company like Siemens Energy to expand in the middle of a city of four million. Because this industry is clean.”
Two men at the heart of hydrogen production. The stack splits the water Photo: Ralf Günther
Production in Moabit is being ramped up step by step. “We could produce 20 gigawatts of electrolyzer capacity by 2030,” says board member Anne-Laure de Chammard. “That is twice as much as the target for Germany and half as much as that in the EU.”
A few projects are already underway in Europe: Co-partner Air Liquide wants to set up 12 electrolyzers in Normandy alone – not even a forest the size of Berlin could save that much CO2. And green hydrogen for shipping is to be produced in Denmark and Sweden.