- Tenders building permit application for a 15 MW plant in Northern Switzerland.
- The plant is expected to produce 2,000 tonnes of clean hydrogen every year.
Axpo Holding AG, a Swiss renewable power producer, has tendered the building permit application for a 15 MW plant for the production of green hydrogen in Northern Switzerland. The plant will supply filling stations located in the region.
The hydrogen facility will be powered by the Wildegg-Brugg run-of-river power plant on the Aare river in the canton of Aargau. The project, upon becoming operations by the spring of 2024, is expected to produce 2,000 tonnes of clean hydrogen every year.
The project forms part of a partnership between Axpo, Voegtlin-Meyer AG, a family-owned filling station operator, IBB Energie AG, an energy producer and the city of Brugg, which was agreed on last autumn.
Produced hydrogen from the plant will be transported through a new pipeline to a nearby filling station of Voegtlin-Meyer and sold to other regional filling stations to aid the mobility sector’s decarbonisation. The plant’s output will be enough to power about 300 trucks or buses per year.
On its part, IBB Energie AG, which supplies electricity, natural gas and water to the region of Brugg, will use the waste heat from the electrolysis for a local heating network for industrial companies.