Rolls-Royce has commissioned its first in-house test stand for mtu hydrogen engines at its Augsburg site. “This marks another milestone on the road to climate-neutral energy supply,” said Andreas Schell, CEO of Rolls-Royce’s Power Systems division, speaking at the official commissioning. Over the past year and a half, the company has invested around ten million euros at Rolls-Royce Solutions in Augsburg in test bench modernisation, hydrogen infrastructure and other measures as part of its ‘Net Zero at Power Systems’ climate protection programme.
Rolls-Royce has commissioned its first in-house test stand for mtu hydrogen engines at its Augsburg site.
In this sustainability programme, Rolls-Royce announced in 2021 that it would realign its product portfolio so that by 2030, sustainable fuels and new mtu technologies can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 35%, compared to 2019. The company is already successfully operating an mtu fuel cell system, has released its power generation gensets for sustainable fuels such as HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oils), and is developing electrolysers to produce green hydrogen. The mtu gas engine portfolio is being prepared for hydrogen as a fuel, to enable a climate-neutral energy supply.
“To reduce CO2 emissions in electricity supply, renewable, often decentralised, energy sources are needed to generate electrical energy on a much larger scale than today. In conjunction with these renewable sources, we see hydrogen as an essential energy carrier of the future. This is why we are working towards gradually bringing our mtu gensets and CHP units based on the Series 500 and 4000 gas engines to market for operation with a hydrogen blending of 25% by volume and more and for operation with up to 100% by volume,” said Dr Otto Preiss, Rolls-Royce Power Systems Chief Technology Officer and COO.
The Power Systems division of Rolls-Royce has set itself strict targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in its own operations as part of its climate protection programme. With ambitious interim targets for 2030, the company aims to be climate neutral worldwide by 2050, and in Germany as early as 2045.
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