Research Project SyNerGy-H2

The integration of hydrogen technologies into the existing energy system is a key aspect of current energy policy. The SyNerGy-H2 research project is pursuing the overall objective of spanning the technological possibilities at the interfaces between the electrical grid, the power-electronic rectifier and the electrolysis plant across all disciplines and evaluating the resulting connection topologies both technically and economically.

This sub-project analyzes the future demand and integration of electrolysers into the integrated energy and electricity system. For this purpose, detailed energy system scenarios for Europe are modeled and high-resolution electricity market simulations are carried out. The subsequent regionalization of temporally and spatially differentiated data forms the basis for grid analyses and the evaluation of innovative business models for the connection topologies investigated in the overall project in the context of a future hydrogen economy.

Contributions will be made to the repercussions of the technical design of electrolysis plants on comprehensive (spatially and temporally) static overall system analyses and vice versa. Intersectoral aspects such as the interaction of the electricity system with a possible future H2 grid are also included in the considerations. Key results on the grid integration of large electrolysis plants will be published in the IEE Transformation Atlas for scientific communication during and after the end of the project.