Uniper is seeking customers for its planned 2.6 million tonne-per-year (tpa) ammonia-to-hydrogen import terminal in Germany.
The energy firm opened a call for expressions of interest from potential buyers of hydrogen from its Wilhelmshaven hydrogen import terminal.
Submissions, which incur an unspecified participation fee, will indicate a desired capacity for reservation, potentially forming the basis of a terminal use agreement and binding capacity booking.
Interested parties have until June 15 to send proposals via an online portal.
When operational, the Wilhelmshaven import terminal will receive up to 2.6 million tonnes of ammonia per year, crack it into around 350,000 tonnes of hydrogen, and feed it into Germany’s 9,000km core hydrogen network.
It will also include rail loading infrastructure for onward ammonia transport across the country.
Uniper has already committed to importing green ammonia, after signing an offtake agreement for up to 500,000 tonnes per year from AM Green’s 1.3GW project in India. Deliveries are expected to start in 2028.
The Wilhelmshaven site could also host a 1GW green hydrogen plant alongside the terminal, positioning it as a major hydrogen gateway.
Under Berlin’s green hydrogen strategy, imports are expected to meet up to 70% of Germany’s 2030 hydrogen demand.
The core network is set to play a major role in those plans, bringing molecules from terminals to regional clusters.
On Thursday (14 May), German transmission system operators touted strong early demand for the pipeline network after launching a reservation phase in March.
According to the group, hydrogen input and output capacities of up to around 2.9GW have been requested in cluster regions where production and end use are planned. Around 600MW has been requested for “cross-cluster transport.”
However, think tank the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) recently warned that weaker-than-expected hydrogen uptake could require Germany to provide an additional €45bn ($52.7bn) in public funding by 2055, largely due to the hydrogen network.
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