Green Hydrogen Technology (GHT) and ETG Entsorgung + Transport have agreed on a strategic partnership to produce climate-neutral energy from waste. In the past two years, the start-up GHT has developed a patented process that uses locally available raw materials and requires no connection to larger infrastructures. Recycling specialist ETG will use this technology to produce up to 100 tons of hydrogen per year from 2025. The production plant is GHT's first commercial success and will be built next year at an ETG site in Baden-Württemberg.
With GHT technology, the production costs of hydrogen are up to 1.5 euros per kilogram and below the cost of hydrogen obtained through electrolysis. Users of the process therefore already have access to competitive renewable energy today. At the same time, the process can replace conventional waste incineration without CO2 to release.
“With this partnership, we are transferring our technology into continuous operation and laying the basis for our commercial market entry. To this end, we are in advanced discussions with companies and investors from the recycling, industrial and transportation sectors,” says Robert Nave, managing director of Green Hydrogen Technology. “With ETG, we rely on an experienced partner in waste management, with whom we tap into the potential of the industry. Together, we provide a prime example of the circular economy and demonstrate how an aspiring start-up and an experienced family company optimally combine their expertise. ”
“The partnership with GHT provides us with a technological innovation with which we can make our energy supply fit for the future and make it sustainable,” says Beate Schwarz, managing director of ETG Entsorgung + Transport. “Hydrogen is an energy source of the future, which we are using for our own processing processes with GHT technology. This is a real solution that provides us with energy exactly where we need it. ”
GHT will continuously develop the technology in continuous operation. The CO produced during hydrogen production2 should be partially returned to the process. The remaining CO2 is used as a technical gas for various industrial applications such as the beverage or chemical industry.
The technology start-up GHT, founded in 2020, has developed a patented process to produce climate-neutral hydrogen, methanol or methane from non-recyclable plastic waste and biomass. The production process is based on a novel type of airflow gasification at temperatures of up to 1600 degrees Celsius and uses locally available raw materials as starting material to provide hydrogen at a cost of up to 1.5 euros per kilogram. The Augsburg-based company operates a pilot plant in Leoben, Austria, which tests the technology on an industrial scale.
ETG is part of the Schwarz family company founded in 1846, which employs more than 800 people in the areas of freight forwarding, logistics and waste disposal. For more than 50 years, ETG has been an independent complete disposal company for commercial and hazardous waste in the Göppingen district. The company shares GHT's vision of a sustainable circular economy and secures a sustainable energy supply through the joint project.
