H2 Westküste GmbH, the joint venture founded within WESTKÜSTE100, announced that there will be no positive investment decision for the planned electrolysis. Decision comes following close assessment...
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WESTKÜSTE100 meets for the first partner’s meeting
(Heide, October 20, 2021) After more than one year of project work under corona conditions, the consortium of Reallabor (real-world laboratory) WESTKÜSTE100 met for its first partner meeting mainly...
WESTKÜSTE100 – cavern suitability test successfully completed
With the involvement of the relevant authorities, the State Mining Office for Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, Raffinerie Heide was able to complete work on one of the caverns north of the...
Real-world laboratory WESTKÜSTE100: OXYFUEL100 sub-project successfully completed.
(Hemmingstedt, April 7, 2021) The carbon dioxide (CO₂) footprint of the construction industry is currently still significant. Holcim is taking a leadership role in the climate-friendly...
WESTKÜSTE100 receives funding approval for the storage of green hydrogen
(Hemmingstedt, April 7, 2021) In mid-March 2021, the WESTKÜSTE100 project received funding of 6.5 million euros from the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) to expand and...
Prime Ministers visit Raffinerie Heide
(Hemmingstedt, 24 August 2020) On 24 August 2020, the Prime Ministers of the states of Schleswig-Holstein and North-Rhine Westphalia, Daniel Günther and Armin Laschet, paid a visit to the Heide...
Green light for green hydrogen – WESTKÜSTE100 receives funding approval from the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs
(Hemmingstedt/Berlin, 3 August 2020) First real-world laboratory of the energy transition to focus on cross-sector coupling and hydrogen technologies gets under way Today the consortium behind the...
Real-world Laboratory “WESTKÜSTE100” welcomes stimulus package and national hydrogen strategy
(Heide, June 23rd 2020) Both the recently published and comprehensive economic stimulus and future technologies programme of Germany’s grand coalition and the...
Real-world laboratory “WESTKÜSTE100” submits full proposal
On March 31, 2020, the partner companies of the real-world laboratory “Westküste 100” submitted the full proposal with a detailed project description to the Project Management Jülich...
Real world laboratories WESTKÜSTE100 selected
(Heide/Berlin, 18 July 2019) At a press conference Peter Altmaier, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, announced that Westküste100 is to be one of the first real-world laboratories of...