Report 2002 - 2007
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Report 2002 - 2007 www.cep-berlin.de 2 Foreword 3 Foreword Just imagine … A groundbreaking project began with these ment and the leading role played by the Federal Ministry of words four years ago. It focused on a vision of a new kind of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs. We would like to mobility designed to be sustainable and emission-free express our heartfelt gratitude at this point. responsible. It aimed at providing our society with the free- dom it needs for global cooperation and also meet the chal- The Clean Energy Partnership is entering a new phase by lenges of future business and political developments. the second half of 2008. The National Organization for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells (NOW) will probably back the CEP In order to allow this vision to become reality, vehicle man- as a lighthouse project within the National Hydrogen and ufacturers, energy suppliers and the German Federal Gov- Fuel Cell Technology Innovation Program (NIP). Shell and ernment formed the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) in 2003 the Hamburg public transport company Hamburger in line with the recommendations of the Transport Energy Hochbahn will have joined the Clean Energy Partnership in Strategy (VES).Our joint aim is to carry out tests and provide May. And consideration is being given to establishing the evidence to see whether hydrogen can fit into existing sys- first transport corridor with integrated hydrogen infrastruc- tems and be used as a fuel of the future. ture between Berlin and Hamburg. A great deal has happened since then. The hydrogen This report on the first phase of the Clean Energy Partner- demonstration project in Berlin is one of the largest in the ship project shows you the most important milestones world. What we have achieved so far is a fleet of 17 hydro- along the pathway from a joint vision to the real world. gen cars from different manufacturers in customer hands, Emission-free mobility with hydrogen – we have already two integrated hydrogen fuelling stations to which the public covered a good deal of ground.We look forward to treading has access, buses operating within a public transit system this path together in the future. and links to the European HyFLEET:CUTE project. Many visit- ors from Germany and further away are proving that the CEP has already become a showcase for hydrogen technol- ogy and it has attracted a great deal of respect. New part- Yours truly, ners have joined the scheme; eleven companies are now Spokesmen for the CEP Steering Committee involved in the CEP.This would not have been possible with- out significant support from the German Federal Govern- Dr. Klaus Bonhoff Patrick Schnell 4 Contents 5 Contents 1 | Foreword 3 2 | Summary 6 3 | List of Abbreviations 8 4 | An Overview of the CEP 9 5.1 Our Goals… 9 5.2 … and What We Have Achieved 9 5.3 The Consortium 10 5 | The CEP in Facts and Figures 13 6 | The CEP 2003-2007: Five Years of Mobility with Hydrogen 14 6.1 Refuelling with Hydrogen 14 6.1.1 Berlin Messedamm: One of the World’s First Fully Integrated Public Hydrogen Fuelling Stations Starts Business 15 6.1.2 Berlin Heerstrasse: Energy-Optimized Refuelling 25 6.1.3 LH2 Boil-Off 29 6.2 Driving with Hydrogen 31 6.2.1 En Route:The Berlin Public Transit System Successfully Uses Hydrogen-Powered Buses on Local Passenger Routes 38 6.2.2 Reliable Mobility:The CEP Service Stations 39 6.3 Hydrogen: A Safe Fuel 40 6.4 Discovering More about Hydrogen 41 7 | The CEP after 2007 42 Visit by a Chinese delegation with Prof. Shi Doreen Krüger,Manager of the CEP TOTAL The former Federal Minister of Dinghuan, Member of the Senior Staff on the fuelling station,and TOTAL Area Manager Transport Dr.Manfred Stolpe State Council and General Secretary (retired) Uwe Wolfenstätter in March 2006,© TOTAL when the CEP Aral fuelling station of the Ministry of Science and Technology was opened on Messedamm in (MOST) of the People’s Republic of China in November 2004 April 2005 6 Summary Summary 7 2 | Summary The Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) is an international con- gas form. Liquid hydrogen is supplied at very low tempera- for 2009, two in Berlin and one in Hamburg. In the longer sortium involving during its first phase from 2003 till 2007 tures and is stored in a separate tank.The hydrogen is used run new fuelling stations for quite a significant number of the following companies: Aral, BMW, the Berlin Public Trans- by vehicles with an internal combustion engine or a fuel cell busses both in Berlin and Hamburg will be erected.There are port Company (BVG),Daimler AG,Ford,GM/Opel,StatoilHydro, drive system. plans for a hydrogen corridor between Berlin and Hamburg Linde,TOTAL,Vattenfall Europe and Volkswagen AG. Its goal and thus the CEP becomes the most significant central is to demonstrate that the energy carrier hydrogen can be TOTAL opened the second CEP hydrogen filling station in European hub for hydrogen in transportation with links to used as a fuel in vehicles in everyday situations and it aims Berlin-Spandau in March 2006. The hydrogen plant, which the neighbouring Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway project to test the infrastructure for fuelling vehicles. has been included in a conventional TOTAL fuelling station, planned in the north.The twelve companies in the partner- provides liquid and gaseous hydrogen for cars and buses. ship from May 2008 onward – the Berlin Public Transport The first phase of the Clean Energy Partnership finished on This fuelling station also forms a link with the HyFLEET:CUTE Company BVG, BMW, Daimler, Ford, GM/Opel, the Hamburg 31 December 2007.This report provides an initial comprehen- European Hydrogen Project; the Berlin Public Transport Com- Public Transport Company Hamburger Hochbahn,Linde,Shell, sive overview of the project results that have been achieved pany (BVG) will be testing 14 hydrogen buses on normal pas- StatoilHydro,TOTAL,Vattenfall Europe und Volkswagen Group so far. In addition, it outlines the technical, political and senger operations within this project until September 2009. – comprise five automotive companies with production organizational or logistic goals of the partnership, which facilities in Germany, three of the world’s largest integrated has set a target of preparing the market for the arrival of The CEP is part of the National Sustainability Strategy and is oil and gas companies, one significant German energy hydrogen-powered vehicles by 2016. being supported by the German Federal Government. The provider,world leading companies within hydrogen produc- National Sustainability Strategy aims to demonstrate for- tion and infrastructure and two of Germany's largest public The Berlin hydrogen demonstration project is one of the ward-looking technologies and pinpoint the technical and transport companies. most significant projects of its kind in the world for testing economic conditions for using alternative fuels for road hydrogen as a fuel in a road transport context. It is the transportation. One major issue involves providing evi- largest project in Europe demonstrating the use of hydro- dence of the positive effects on the environment. This is gen as a fuel in an everyday transportation environment. why the hydrogen is produced using energy from renew- Berlin has two fuelling stations so that the approx. 17 cars able sources as far as possible. This means that virtually no driven by customers can refuel on a daily basis. The CEP is pollutants or greenhouse gas emissions are produced in the testing three different hydrogen production systems and hydrogen cycle from its production to its use. two different types of hydrogen fuel. From 2008 onward the Clean Energy Partnership will turn The CEP started its demonstration work by opening a hydro- into a true European lighthouse project,not only to become gen fuelling station that is fully integrated in a normal pub- perhaps the largest project in hydrogen transportation lic fuelling station on Messedamm in Berlin in 2004.Electroly- in Europe, but also the most complex. Apart from Berlin, sis has been used at the Aral fuelling station to produce hydrogen activities in Hamburg are included into the proj- hydrogen from water since then and it is stored in compressed ect.Currently a number of new fuelling stations are planned Opening of the Celebration to mark “20 Years of the Federal Opening of the CEP Aral fuelling station on Visit by a Chinese delegation April 2006: Visit by Günter Dominique Perben, the French Minister of The CEP becomes a site in the “Land of Ideas” Journalists’ trip to the country CEP TOTAL fuelling station Ministry for the Environment” with Federal Messedamm with Deputy Economics Minister with Prof. Shi Dinghuan, Mem- Verheugen, EU Commis- Transportation and Infrastructure,Wolfgang project:The presentation of the prize by Thomas holding the rotating presidency on Heerstrasse in Berlin in Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel and Georg Wilhelm Adamowitsch and Federal ber of the Senior Staff on the sioner for Enterprise and Tiefensee, the Federal Minister of Transport, Wacker, Director of Global Banking, Deutsche of the EU: Karin Roth,Parliamen- March 2006, © TOTAL Albrecht Jungk, BMW Group in June 2006 Minister of Transport Dr. Manfred Stolpe State Council and General Industry Building and Urban Affairs, and Andreas Bank Berlin, to Patrick Schnell, Manager of tary Secretary of State at the Secretary (retired) of the Mini- Sturmowski, CEO of the BVG, at the opening Sustainable Developments/New Energies at Federal Ministry of Transport, stry of Science and Technology of the CEP TOTAL fuelling station in Berlin TOTAL Building and Urban Affairs, (MOST) of the People’s Republic in March 2006. provides information about of China in April 2005 mobility in the future.