Excellent developments for green hydrogen ecosystems
Every year, the Renewable Energy Hamburg Cluster honors outstanding innovations and personal commitment to renewable energies with the German Renewables Award – GP Joule's HY.RUNNER trailer control system was named “Hydrogen Innovation of the Year”.
14 Jan 2025Share
This is yet another project by GP Joule GmbH, based in Reußenköge in Schleswig-Holstein, to receive the renowned German Renewables Award. The intelligent trailer control system for hydrogen transportation, HY.RUNNER, developed and patented by the North German company, won in the category “Hydrogen Innovation of the Year”.
What is HY.RUNNER?
When hydrogen is produced in one place and needed in another, transportation plays a key role. It should be efficient, economical, safe and, ideally, intelligent, so that the hydrogen is always in the required quantity at the best place at the exact time. And this is precisely what the digital solution HY.RUNNER, GP Joule's recently patented trailer control system, is designed to ensure. Thanks to HY.RUNNER, the hydrogen quantities in the trailer are used optimally, CO2 and costs are saved during hydrogen transport. Locations can communicate with each other in a networked way and thus ensure detailed planning of the most efficient hydrogen distribution across multiple offtake locations. “With HY.RUNNER, we are contributing to the efficient control of green hydrogen ecosystems and thus supporting developments in this key area of the energy transition,” says Olaf Jäger-Roschko, managing director of GP Joule Hydrogen. ”We are very pleased to have received the German Renewables Award again for our commitment, which confirms our consistent commitment to innovative solutions in the energy transition.”
This is the second award for a GP Joule project.
A GP Joule project has won the German Renewables Award for the second time. In 2020, eFarm was recognized in the “Project of the Year” category. In the hydrogen mobility project initiated by GP Joule, electricity from participating community wind farms is used to produce green hydrogen, which is stored in mobile trailers and delivered to two of the company's own hydrogen filling stations for cars, buses and trucks. Two fuel cell buses for public transport and numerous cars have been initially purchased, making traffic on North Frisia's roads quieter and cleaner.
Second place in the “Student research project of the year” category
In 2024, two other projects by GP Joule were nominated alongside HY.RUNNER, including the master's thesis by Yannik Keyßner, which took second place in the “Student research project of the year” category. The former master's student and current employee at GP Joule demonstrated the influence of the electrolysis operating mode on production efficiency and proved in his work that operating strategies based on a prediction model are superior to purely reactive operation.
Unique project in Germany
An innovative heating network from GP Joule was also shortlisted in the “Project of the Year” category. In November last year, a project that is unique in Germany went into operation in the municipality of Mertingen in the district of Donau-Ries: together with the municipality, GP Joule has expanded the jointly operated heating network there to include a large industrial heat pump. It is powered directly by electricity from the neighboring photovoltaic park.
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