HPC initiates concept study for hydrogen bunker station in Helgoland

The municipality of Helgoland has commissioned Hamburg Port

bunker station on Helgoland.  

The concept study will require HPC to investigate the commercial and

infrastructural suitability of the island as a potential location for H2 fuel

supply for shipping traffic on the North Sea.

The study includes evaluating the market potential of alternative fuels for

island shipping with the aim of estimating the potential demand.

The study will then examine the various refuelling logistics for hydrogen,

taking the local infrastructural framework and conditions into

consideration.

The study will lastly include initial estimates of the necessary

investments in addition to evaluating and recommending such plans.

“The results of the study will better enable the municipality of Helgoland

and its partners to make an investment decision based on realistic costs,” said

Patrick Specht, Head of Sustainability at HPC.

Green hydrogen from the AquaPrimus project will also be available on

Helgoland in the future.

The AquaPrimus Project was set up to help achieve the primary goal of the

EU hydrogen strategy which was to promote the production of green hydrogen.

“Taking into account the good availability of green hydrogen in the area of

the island, we would like to examine the extent to which Helgoland can also

reliably provide a supply for ships calling there in the future,” said Christoph

Tewis, Project Manager for AquaCore and the TransHyDE project, Helgoland.

The concept study for a hydrogen bunker station on Helgoland is funded by

the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the hydrogen

lead project, TransHyDe.

The TransHyDE, one of three hydrogen lead projects of the Ministry,

supports the goals of the National Hydrogen Strategy in Germany, which was

adopted by the Federal Government in 2020.

The hydrogen lead projects involve the research and development of new

technologies and application solutions for the production, storage and transport

of green hydrogen.

The commissioning of this concept study comes less than a month after HPC

concluded a profitability analysis contract for a North German terminal.