Partnership Projects
Projects
Forward-looking projects to build the bridge to a sustainable green future.
Forward-looking projects to build the bridge to a sustainable green future.
The private sector Codex Partnership develops with a holistic approach and multidisciplinary processing forward-looking projects and products in many collaborations and consortia for the transformation of the energy system. The ‘Power on Demand’ and the complementary ‘Power to Hydrogen Process’ are key to this.
The result of this are products and services, some of which are far ahead of their time. They are linked to the conversion of the energy system to climate neutrality and autonomy and support also the implementation of the Strategy “Tyrol 2050 energy autonomous”.
– Dr. Ernst Fleischhacker, Codex founder and chairman
The Bridge to a Green Future
EWest Research Laboratory
The climate, energy and resource strategy program “Tirol 2050 energy-autonomous” involves a massive restructuring of the energy system to optimize electricity applications. FEN Research GmbH has set up the EWest Research Labortory at the Green Energy Center Europe in Innsbruck for the optimization of “Power on Demand” processes for the restructuring of the energy system.
HyWest Research Laboratory
The HyWest research laboratory at the Green Energy Center Europe in Innsbruck, Austria, stands for multi- and interdisciplinary hydrogen logistics, system and process research with international research teams for the development of a green hydrogen economy in Europe.
Reinforce
The HyWest research laboratory at the Green Energy Center Europe in Innsbruck, Austria, stands for multi- and interdisciplinary hydrogen logistics, system and process research with international research teams for the development of a green hydrogen economy in Europe.
TRIĒRĒS
The TRIĒRĒS project is supporting the main priority of the European Commission for scaling up hydrogen ecosystems across Europe through emerging strategic value chains. The TRIĒRĒS Valley is nucleated around the Motor Oil Hellas (MOH) Refinery in Agioi Theodoroi, Greece, which is destined to become the Flagship Hydrogen Valley in the South-eastern Mediterranean geography.
HySelect
This European project will demonstrate the production of hydrogen (H₂) by splitting water through the Hybrid Sulphur cycle (HyS) via concentrated solar technologies (CST) with an attractive efficiency and cost. HySelect will introduce, develop and operate a complete H₂ production chain under industrially relevant conditions.
MOST-H2
This European project will demonstrate the production of hydrogen (H₂) by splitting water through the Hybrid Sulphur cycle (HyS) via concentrated solar technologies (CST) with an attractive efficiency and cost. HySelect will introduce, develop and operate a complete H₂ production chain under industrially relevant conditions.
H2CoVE
The Hydrogen Centres of Vocational Excellence (H2CoVE) project aims to equip the European workforce with the right and necessary high-quality vocational skills for industries in the emerging value chains for a hydrogen economy. Five regions from Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Netherlands, Norway and Ukraine will pool their knowledge and expertise to build local ecosystems for skills.
HyQuality
HyQuality is a collaborative research project between FEN Research and ÖVGW, ongoing since February 2023, aiming to develop an affordable monitoring process for the quality assurance of electrolytic hydrogen. A tolerable error probability for the release of hydrogen with unacceptable quality is to be determined.
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The focus of the project is the analysis of decentralized hydrogen concepts with fuel cells in climate-neutral districts or renewable energy communities. Decentralized H2 concepts, in combination with electrolyzers and hydrogen storage systems, use fuel cells to achieve improved self-consumption rates of the renewable energy sources produced locally. Furthermore, this can reduce the amount of electrical energy purchased from the grid and increase self-sufficiency.
HyBus Implementation
The aim of the HyBus project is to accompany the implementation of the first three 700 bar hydrogen buses at Wiener Linien (urban operating case), Graz Linien (regional operating case) and Zillertaler Verkehrsbetriebe (alpine operating case) with a long-term study in real operation. The aim is to research, among other things, the system and logistics contexts for the integration of the individual operating cases into a green, regionally autonomous hydrogen economy
WIVA P&G HyWest "Regional Green Hydrogen Economy"
The Austrian R&D flagship project “WIVA P&G HyWest” was developed between 2018 and 2022 at the HyWest research center at the Green Energy Center Europe in Innsbruck with the aim of “building a green regional hydrogen economy” and was finally brought to Tyrol on the basis of an international jury decision in the research competition process. The project will explore the processes involved in the cross-sector production, storage and use of green hydrogen.
WIVA P&G HyTrain
The Austrian ‘HyTrain’ R&D Lighthouse Project aims to investigate the quality assurance and risk management parameters for the development and implementation of the world’s first hydrogen-powered narrow gauge train and hydrogen infrastructure (production, storage and refuelling of green hydrogen) for use in the mobility sector.
HySnowGrommer
The HySnowGroomer project aims to develop a multifunctional hydrogen snow groomer including a refueling system and emergency power supply function for clean and safe alpine winter tourism. With the support of the national climate and energy fund, a snow groomer with a fuel cell electric powertrain was developed between 2019 and 2021 and a mobile hydrogen filling station (mobileHRS) was developed, built and brought to market.
HyDrone
In this project, a multidisciplinary team is working on the latest drone technology powered by hydrogen fuel cells. The Hydrogen Drone project is working on the next generation of unmanned aerial vehicles that are being developed with special operations, efficiency and sustainability in mind.
HyTrain
The project “Zillertalbahn 2020+, energy-autonomous with hydrogen” has been developed since 2016 as part of the green hydrogen economy currently being developed in Central Europe. The activities required for this are bundled in numerous international and national research competition projects in the hydrogen center “HyWest” at the Green Energy Center Europe in Innsbruck.
Leaff
Support for the e momility start-up wemovnow to bring various products and services to the market with the philosophy, skills, resources and facilities of the Codex partnership of the Green Energy Centre Europe.
https://www.wemovenow.com/green-energy-center/
Urban Charge & Park
With the “UrbanCharge&Park” project, an interdisciplinary team is researching barrier-free charging and parking for electric mobility in urban areas. The “best practice charging parking area” required for this is being set up and operated in the EWest research center at the Green Energy Center Europe , Technikerstraße 1-3 in Innsbruck.
Demo4Grid
The aim of the EU project “Demo4Grid” is to build a PAE electrolysis plant (Pressurized Alkaline Electrolyser) to research and demonstrate power grid balancing services under real operating and market conditions while simultaneously producing green hydrogen to make industrial processes more environmentally friendly.
Friendly User Hydrogen Family
Hyundai’s ‘Friendly User Hydrogen Family’ has been established with the installation of the world’s first series of hydrogen cars – the Hyundai ix35 FCEV – in Europe, the opening of the Green Energy Center Europe in Innsbruck in 2016 and the launch of the world’s second series of hydrogen cars – the Hyundai Nexo FCEV – in 2018.
As part of the Codex partnership, information on hydrogen applications in mobility has been provided to so-called friendly users since the installation of the first hydrogen cars in Europe. Interested parties are taken on tours of the pioneering hydrogen vehicles (Hyundai ix35 FCEV and Hyundai Nexo FCEV) and the current hydrogen facilities in Central Europe.
Wemovenow Startup development
Support for the e momility start-up wemovnow to bring various products and services to the market with the philosophy, skills, resources and facilities of the Codex partnership of the Green Energy Centre Europe.
https://www.wemovenow.com/green-energy-center/
HyFive
Support for the e momility start-up wemovnow to bring various products and services to the market with the philosophy, skills, resources and facilities of the Codex partnership of the Green Energy Centre Europe.
https://www.wemovenow.com/green-energy-center/
The two processes “Power on demand” & “Power to Hydrogen”.
Since 2016, the privately organised Codex partnership Green Energy Center Europe (GEC) in Innsbruck has been working together with its partners from industry, commerce and research as well as forward-looking start-ups to build bridges to a green future – and to support the transformation of the energy system towards climate neutrality and energy autonomy.
Two key processes need to be completed in order to transform the energy system towards climate neutrality and energy autonomy:
- The “Power on Demand” process
- The “Power to Hydrogen” process
"Power on Demand" & "Power to Hydrogen" explained
In the photo above you can see the hydrogen car (Hyundai NEXO) of the E-West research centre, which represents the “Power on Demand” process, and in the background the photovoltaic tower, which can supply the electricity required for the battery cars (Hyundai IONIC) used for car sharing at the centre for a year. The problem is that the power supply works during the day in summer, but not at night, especially in winter. Therefore, we need storage, which can be provided by batteries that supply energy from day to night, and hydrogen storage technologies that enable the shift of energy from summer to winter through the “electricity to hydrogen” process.