Cooperation in the fields of hydrogen and power-to‑X

The two com­pa­nies Tüv Süd and Engie want to expand their respec­tive activ­i­ties in the fields of hydro­gen and pow­er-to‑X. Both com­pa­nies signed an agree­ment to this effect on Fri­day, March 11, 2022. The coop­er­a­tion extends across all stages of the val­ue chain — from the sup­port of approval pro­ce­dures to engi­neer­ing, con­struc­tion and com­mis­sion­ing to the oper­a­tion of plants.

In line with the 2030 Agen­da, both part­ners will con­tribute their strengths to the coop­er­a­tion in order to advance projects in the fields of hydro­gen and pow­er-to‑X and to sup­port poten­tial cus­tomers from indus­try and munic­i­pal util­i­ties. In addi­tion, both part­ners want to use their coop­er­a­tion to raise aware­ness of the great ben­e­fits of hydro­gen and pow­er-to‑X solutions.

TWO STRONG PARTNERS FOR THE FUTURE

Engie aims to use renew­able hydro­gen to dri­ve the decar­boniza­tion of indus­try (fer­til­iz­ers, refiner­ies, chem­i­cals, etc.) and mobil­i­ty appli­ca­tions world­wide. Devel­op­ments are also focused on improv­ing the inte­gra­tion of fluc­tu­at­ing renew­ables into the ener­gy sys­tem and stor­ing the excess elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­at­ed. With more than 200 spe­cial­ists ded­i­cat­ed exclu­sive­ly to hydro­gen and hydro­gen deriv­a­tives (e.g. methanol, e‑fuels such as e‑kerosene, e‑methane), the com­pa­ny is the long-term part­ner for cus­tomers, ensur­ing every step of a project from incep­tion to gigawatt-scale operation.

With over 25,000 employ­ees around 50 coun­tries, Tüv Süd is a lead­ing glob­al test­ing and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion com­pa­ny. The experts take care of opti­miz­ing tech­nol­o­gy, sys­tems and know-how. They make a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to mak­ing tech­ni­cal inno­va­tions safe and reli­able. In the case of hydro­gen, the com­pa­ny accom­pa­nies the entire val­ue chain — from gen­er­a­tion to stor­age and dis­tri­b­u­tion to appli­ca­tion in a wide vari­ety of areas. The inter­dis­ci­pli­nary teams not only enable a holis­tic approach to com­plex projects, but also indi­vid­ual solu­tions for a wide range of tasks.

COMPREHENSIVE EXPERTISE

“At Engie, we pio­neered the devel­op­ment of a hydro­gen econ­o­my on an indus­tri­al scale world­wide and have built up com­pre­hen­sive exper­tise from pro­duc­tion to end use. Against the back­drop of a mas­sive increase in glob­al demand for green hydro­gen, we are step­ping up our efforts in the large-scale pro­duc­tion of renew­able hydro­gen. Our goal is a pro­duc­tion capac­i­ty of four gigawatts of green hydro­gen by 2030, but we are also con­cerned with prepar­ing exist­ing infra­struc­tures for the tran­si­tion from nat­ur­al gas to hydro­gen. Part­ner­ships like with Tüv Süd are an impor­tant step for us on the way from plan­ning to practice.”

- Charles Her­toghe, Busi­ness Devel­op­ment & Strat­e­gy Vice-President

“Tüv Süd has a clear sus­tain­abil­i­ty focus and offers a wide range of ser­vices along the entire ener­gy trans­for­ma­tion and decar­boniza­tion process. For the suc­cess­ful devel­op­ment of a hydro­gen econ­o­my, the cor­re­spond­ing tech­nolo­gies such as pow­er-to‑X must be fur­ther devel­oped and, above all, made scal­able. We bring our exten­sive know-how and decades of expe­ri­ence with new tech­nolo­gies to our col­lab­o­ra­tion with Engie to make tech­ni­cal inno­va­tions safe, reli­able and mar­ketable, and also to sup­port the nec­es­sary trans­for­ma­tion of sup­ply infra­struc­tures,” says Thore Lapp, head of the Green Ener­gy and Sus­tain­abil­i­ty busi­ness unit.

Pow­er-to‑X refers to all process­es that con­vert green elec­tric­i­ty into chem­i­cal ener­gy sources for elec­tric­i­ty stor­age, elec­tric­i­ty-based fuels for mobil­i­ty or raw mate­ri­als for the chem­i­cal indus­try. Pow­er-to‑X can be used to pro­duce hydro­gen for fuel cell vehi­cles and kerosene for air­craft in a cli­mate-friend­ly way.