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Austrian energy company Wien Energie GmbH and a group of partners will test blending hydrogen with natural gas to generate power at a large-scale combined heat and power (CHP) station in Vienna.
As part of the pilot project, one of Austria's largest gas turbines located at the Donaustadt CHP plant is being converted to run partly on hydrogen.
Wien Energie is partnering on the trial with Vienna-based utility Verbund AG (VIE:VER), German regional utility RheinEnergie and Siemens Energy AG (ETR:ENR) which is currently working on the conversion of the gas turbine. The upgrade should be completed by mid-July. As a result, the capacity of the power plant will be raised by about 23 MW. Currently, the Donaustadt CHP station has a 350-MW capacity to produce heat and up to 395 MW for electricity.
As a next step, the partners will prepare the necessary infrastructure to test adding 15% of hydrogen to the fuel for the gas turbine in the summer of 2023. Later, the hydrogen share in the fuel will be doubled. The first results of the tests will be available at the end of next year.
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