GreenRoot Project

Numerous industrial companies in Central Germany are facing the challenge of decarbonising the energy requirements for their production facilities. We are supporting and accompanying them, with for example, our GreenRoot project. We work together with the company HyCC from the Netherlands. Together, we want to build an industrial-scale electrolysis plant in Central Germany to supply the local chemical industry with green hydrogen.

In Lutherstadt Wittenberg, VNG AG, VNG Handel & Vertrieb and HyCC are planning to build a state-of-the-art plant for the production of green hydrogen from renewable energy. The electrolyser, with a capacity of up to 500 megawatts, could produce around 50,000 tonnes of green hydrogen annually, providing around 5 percent of Germany’s production capacity envisaged in the National Hydrogen Strategy.

While VNG AG and VNG H&V contribute their expertise in the development of marketable hydrogen concepts, HyCC, as a technical partner, will in future provide the necessary knowhow in the field of electrolysis – the key technology for the production of green hydrogen. 

The hydrogen project is intended to be an important building block for the sustainable future of the region and to assure the continued success of the local industrial base into the long term. At the same time, GreenRoot can promote the ramp-up of the hydrogen market in Germany as a whole by tapping into the core network. 

The plant, which is scheduled to come on stream in 2029, is to be built on the site of the former waterworks of the Lutherstadt Wittenberg municipal utilities, opposite the Piesteritz Agro-Chemical Park. The site is therefore in the direct vicinity of SKW Piesteritz, which intends to switch its energy supply from fossil fuels to green hydrogen in the future.

Factsheet with the most important figures, data and facts about the GreenRoot project