Brief profile
As a subsidiary of the French utility Électricité de France (EDF), Hynamics Deutschland GmbH brings the expertise of the entire EDF Group to the Westküste100 consortium. The company develops green hydrogen solutions for industrial and mobility customers in Germany and provides green hydrogen solutions from project development, design, investment, construction to operation of the water electrolysis plants.
For more than 25 years, the EDF Group is taking part to the energy transition in Germany, as a developer of renewable energies with about 800 MW of wind and hydro power plants under management, as well as the development of innovative businesses in Germany. The EDF Group is an integrated electricity company, active in all areas of the business: generation, transmission, distribution, energy supply and trading, energy services. A global leader in low-carbon energies, the Group has developed a diversified generation mix based on nuclear power, hydropower, new renewable energies and thermal energy. The Group is involved in supplying energy and services to approximately 38.9 million customers (1), 28.8 million of which are in France. It generated consolidated sales of €69 billion in 2020. EDF is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.
According to the National Hydrogen Strategy, renewable hydrogen plays a key role in achieving climate objectives and offers a unique opportunity for Germany to position itself as a world leader in hydrogen technologies. The EDF Group founded Hynamics Deutschland GmbH in August 2020, reinforcing its commitment to fight climate change and to provide decarbonisation solutions to its customers in Germany. Hynamics Deutschland builds on the 20-year long experience in electrolysis and fuel cell technologies of the EDF Group hydrogen competence centre (EIfER) located in Karlsruhe. The company also embarks very strong knowledge and execution skills on industry processes and energy systems.
Hynamics is accompanying its customers all along their project lifetime, from project development to operation and maintenance, through the design, engineering, financing, procurement and construction of the plant. Based on water electrolysis powered by renewable electricity, Hynamics Deutschland portfolio of solutions provides answers to decarbonisation challenges across the industry and heavy-duty transport sectors.
Role within the real-world laboratory project
The Hynamics provides its expertise in multi-modal systems to the project. It will define the interfaces within the project with the aim of achieving successful overall system integration. The work will involve studying the technical specifications of the individual systems and their control technology as a means to characterise the interfaces. The aim is to identify the requirements that will result in successful and optimum control of the systems as well as cost-effective operation. The concept for an electrolysis plant capable of delivering up to 700 MW of power that is being developed in Heide is being researched in the Westküste100 real-world laboratory project. As part of this work, Hynamics will investigate the necessary interim stages and model grid-compatible operation of the system.
Long-term vision
The concepts and models produced by the research are to be used to work on a possible expansion of the 30 MW plant in Heide and to build further large-scale facilities in Germany. Hynamics therefore sees itself as a future grid-compatible operator of small and large-scale hydrogen production plants, with the ultimate goal of helping to decarbonise industry and mobility with green hydrogen.