Enel develop 100 per cent hydrogen-fuelled power plant in Venice

21 August 2009

Electricity and gas supplier Enel’s zero emissions power plant in Venice has successfully begun generating power fuelled 100 per cent by hydrogen.

The plant, the largest industrial-sized zero emissions power plant in the world, contains a hydrogen pipeline supplied by Polimeri Europa and was officially opened in April 2008, with infrastructure and technology work carried out on schedule. Initial testing of the turbine using methane gas was conducted earlier this year and now, after the completion of the pipeline, the plant has switched to 100 per cent hydrogen fuelling.

The Fusina hydrogen plant has a capacity of 12MW, as well as an additional 4MW generated through re-use of heated gas produced by the hydrogen-fuelled turbine in the existing coal-fired plant. The electricity generated, equal to about 60 million kWh a year, will be sufficient to meet the needs of 20,000 households, and avoid more than 17,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions a year.

In accordance with an agreement signed in 2008, the hydrogen used to fuel the Enel power plant is provided by the Polimeri Europa cracker, which utilises hydrogen to run its own plants.

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One Response to “Enel develop 100 per cent hydrogen-fuelled power plant in Venice”

1. Dick Winchester says:

   24 August 2009 at 12:06 pm

   The UK with it’s appallingly low R&D funding levels would never achieve anything like this. Well done the Italians. You’re certainly showing us up ..

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