Project visit: Residential power-to-gas

Enlit Europe hit the road to visit Stedin’s power-to-gas project in Rozenburg, near Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

This project sees green hydrogen used to power a boiler to heat a residential building complex. Find out more from Stedin’s Energy Transition analyst, Tessa Hillen as she walks us through the project in the video.

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Started in 2017, the project's aim was to show that hydrogen works as an energy solution for residential buildings.

Stedin and GRDF, the largest gas network operator in France and Europe, are investigating adding odor to hydrogen. Like natural gas, hydrogen is odorless. When finding the right odor, the suitability for hydrogen applications, including the fuel cell, is important. For example, the smell of natural gas contains sulfur. This cannot be used in a fuel cell. Three scents were selected in the study by Stedin and GRDF. Follow-up research is needed before the scent can also be applied in practice.

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Enlit on the Road

The fact that hydrogen is part of the energy transition and is an important solution to replace natural gas is recognized throughout Europe. Not only from the Dutch research program HyDelta, but also from Ready4H2 it appears that for the most part the existing gas network can be used for the distribution of hydrogen.

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