Hanseatic Power Hub completes allowing and advertising section

The HEH is the primary land-based terminal in Germany to be accepted as being ammonia-ready in accordance with Germany’s LNG Acceleration Act. Operations in Stade are to be transformed from LNG to ammonia as a hydrogen-based vitality supply by 31 December 2043 on the newest. The technical idea was confirmed by the Federal Institute for Supplies Testing (BAM) as a part of the official allowing process in accordance with the Federal Immission Management Act (BImSchG).

“For me as a shareholder, it was clear from the outset that our terminal needed to be future-flexible and subsequently ammonia-ready. Each technically and commercially. We’ve now set the course for this. We want to take this chance to thank the authorities, politicians and companions who’ve made a big contribution to making sure that we’ve now reached the ending line in Stade and can quickly be capable of take the ultimate funding determination,” mentioned Johann Killinger, Initiator, Co-Shareholder and Managing Director of the HEH. “With this terminal, we are going to make an necessary contribution to securing Europe’s vitality provides over the approaching a long time. Initially with LNG, bio-LNG, and artificial gases. And later with hydrogen within the type of ammonia.”

The jetty and related superstructure, which will likely be accomplished within the coming days by the Decrease Saxony seaport firm NPorts, are designed to be convertible on a modular foundation to hydrogen-derived vitality sources just like the constructing block method utilized in energy and vitality methods. The brand new LNG jetty is 650 m lengthy and is positioned to the south of an present harbour. Within the coming days NPorts will formally hand over the jetty to the state of Decrease Saxony. Its development was accelerated to permit an FSRU chartered by the German authorities to quickly dock at Stade. The FSRU will likely be operated by Deutsche Power Terminal GmbH (DET) on behalf of the German authorities and, in response to DET, is scheduled to dock in Stade in February 2024. The FSRU will depart Stade as soon as the onshore terminal turns into operational.

Parallel to the allowing, HEH has additionally accomplished the business advertising of Germany’s largest terminal undertaking. With EnBW, SEFE, and the Czech firm, CEZ, three main vitality suppliers will use Stade as an vitality hub from 2027, thus collectively contributing to securing European vitality provides. All long-term bookings embrace the choice to modify to ammonia. The zero-emission terminal may have a complete capability of 13.3 billion m³/y of pure gasoline. Of this, 1.3 billion m³ will likely be made obtainable to the spot market in accordance with regulatory necessities.

In spring 2023 HEH had, topic to the ultimate funding determination, commissioned an EPC consortium. The consortium is led by the worldwide specialist Técnicas Reunidas S.A.. The Madrid-based firm has designed and managed the development of greater than 1000 infrastructure and industrial services worldwide. These embrace quite a few initiatives alongside the LNG and hydrogen worth chains. Técnicas Reunidas will likely be answerable for the engineering and for managing the development section in addition to the procurement of kit and supplies. The Spanish FCC Group is to hold out site-preparation and development work within the Stade Industrial Park. FCC has intensive expertise in setting up liquid gasoline tanks having constructed and commissioned eight LNG storage services in Spain. Entrade GmbH, a subsidiary of the Turkish ENKA Group will present the electromechanical meeting. The engineering and development firm is already lively within the Stade space.

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