Report: Hydrogen applicable in existing buildings in Hoogeveen
Today, the final report studying the Hoogeveen Waterstofwijk (residential plan in the Dutch town of Hoogeveen) was presented, which concludes that, next to implementation in newbuild, the existing residential areas can also switch from natural gas to sustainable hydrogen using a special hydrogen central heating boiler via the existing gas infrastructure.
The plan's implementation is based on the Nijstad-Oost demonstration project in Hoogeveen, which includes 100 new homes. The municipality of Hoogeveen, together with the consortium partners involved, will now take the necessary steps to realize the plans: constructing the hydrogen network and connecting 100 new homes in Nijstad-Oost. This will be followed by the conversion of over 400 homes in the existing Erflanden neighborhood.
Hydrogen for existing buildings
The research shows that hydrogen heating in the built environment can be safely used as a replacement for natural gas. Work is underway on the next step: converting the existing Erflanden neighborhood, adjacent to Nijstad-Oost, from natural gas to hydrogen, reusing the existing natural gas network.
Additional solution for natural gas-free living
The project demonstrates the potential of sustainable hydrogen for transitioning part of the Dutch housing stock off natural gas, by reusing the existing natural gas network and using a new hydrogen central heating boiler. This adds another solution for transitioning existing residential areas in the Netherlands off natural gas. The project developed a burner for hydrogen central heating boilers and modified various boiler components.
Over the past two years, the 2 partners in the Hoogeveen Waterstofwijk consortium have been working on the research project. The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) supported this project with a research grant.
The results of the research are included in the final report Pilot project Hoogeveen | Public report 2020 that was presented today.
Fulfilled: Study DNV GL hydrogen central heating boiler report
About Hydrogen District Hoogeveen
The Hoogeveen Water District project is a collaboration between Arcadis Netherlands, BAM Infra Energy Water, Bekaert Combustion Technology, Cogas, DHV Netherlands, DNV-GL Netherlands, Enexis Netbeheer, GasTerra, Gasunie, Green Planet Pesse, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen/ENTRANCE, Institute for Physical Safety (IFV), JP Energy Systems, Liander, N-TRA/RENDO, NAM, Nedstack, New Energy Coalition, Province of Drenthe, Royal Haskoning, Stork Nederland, Visser & Smit Hanab and Municipality of Hoogeveen.
Hydrogen district Hoogeveen is one of the projects in HEAVENN/Hydrogen Valley, a six-year European programme from FCH-JU in which more than thirty public and private parties are building a hydrogen economy in Noord-NederlandHEAVENN stands for 'H2 Energy Applications (in) Valley Environments (for) Northern Netherlands' and is Europe's first Hydrogen Valley.
