The world's largest hydrogen refueling station was recently inaugurated in Berlin.
The station, which is part of the Aral chain, has enough capacity to fill 100 vehicles with hydrogen.At the moment, though, there are only 16 cars and one city bus which will hook up at the Aral pumps.
Hydrogen is produced by a electrolyser through splitting water and the electricity is in the form of renewable power in Berlin. Through two pumps, it can provide two types of hydrogen energy, liquid and compressed gaseous hydrogen.
At the opening of the filling station, Hydro's Hilde Myrberg, head of Markets in Oil & Energy, handed over the hydrogen fuel dispenser to the Federal Minister of Transportation, Dr. Manfred Stolpe, describing it as a "token of a better future".
This project is being carried out by Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) Berlin, a joint undertaking on the part of energy, oil and car companies, which have, along with the German government, invested €33 million (37 million dollars) in it. |
