Storengy Germany Receives EU Funding for SaltHy Hydrogen Storage Project

Storengy Deutschland is receiving EU funding of up to 4.5 million euros from the European Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) fund to carry out studies. This will be used to drive forward the further development of the SaltHy hydrogen storage project in Harsefeld in the Stade region of Lower Saxony. The project volume for the studies in these areas amounts to a total of around nine million euros, 50 percent of which can now be covered by the funding.

Storengy Deutschland is planning to build an underground hydrogen storage facility in salt caverns near its existing natural gas storage facility in Harsefeld in the Stade region of Lower Saxony. Two caverns with a working gas volume of around 7,000 tons each are to be built with the aim of storing 100 percent hydrogen. Commissioning of the hydrogen storage facility with the first cavern is planned for 2032, with the second cavern expected to be commissioned in 2034. The existing natural gas storage facility will then be converted to H2 storage.

SaltHy is ideally located to play a central role in the European and German hydrogen economy. Northern Germany, and Lower Saxony in particular, is at the heart of the future H2 core grid, the first sections of which in the Stade region are scheduled to go into operation as early as 2028.

"Thanks to the funding from the Connecting Europe Facility, we can take the next step in the implementation of our SaltHy project. Thanks to its location at the crossroads of import routes from Denmark and the Netherlands, our hydrogen storage facility in Harsefeld will have an impact beyond Germany's borders. This is why the EU is funding the study phase of our project. Such funding is an important building block for the scale-up of a European hydrogen economy," says Matthieu Keime, Head of Hydrogen Storage at Storengy Germany.