Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park – the future of green hydrogen

We produce, store, transport and supply the energy of tomorrow.

The success of the energy transition depends on renewable energies, energy-efficient solutions and, above all, long-term alternatives to fossil fuels. Green hydrogen has a key role to play here. In the innovative Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park project, the intelligent production of green hydrogen from wind power as well as its storage, transport, marketing and utilisation is being tested for the first time on an industrial scale in Central Germany. The Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park is therefore contributing to researching green H₂ technology and bringing it to market maturity – for a technologically strong and future-oriented energy and hydrogen economy in Central Germany region and the successful integration of various energy sectors at national level.

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News from the Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park

14.10.2025

Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park on the home stretch: Electrolyzer for producing green hydrogen takes shape

With the delivery of the first electrolysis stacks, the Bad Lauchstädt Energiepark has reached another milestone in the development of an industrially scalable and climate-neutral hydrogen economy. The technical commissioning of the 30-megawatt electrolysis plant is scheduled for the end of the year. This means that the real-world laboratory, which will supply the TotalEnergies refinery in Leuna with climate-neutral hydrogen, is nearing completion and demonstrates that economically viable H₂ projects are possible in Germany.

08.04.2025

ONTRAS commissions gas pipeline from Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park – first section of the hydrogen core network in Eastern GermanyONTRAS commissions gas pipeline from Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park – first section of the hydrogen core network in Eastern Germany

Conversion of 25 kilometres of existing pipeline from natural gas to hydrogen completed // Next level of value creation at the Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park comes on stream // It also creates the entry point for the ONTRAS H2 start-up network, establishing connections from the Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park to the West and East

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The Bad Lauchstädt energy park explained on film

Green hydrogen – modelling the entire process chain

For the first time in the world, the direct linkage of wind power from a nearby wind farm and a large-scale electrolysis plant with a capacity of up to 30 megawatts is being tested at the Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park – converting large parts of the wind power into green hydrogen on site. Temporarily stored in a salt cavern specially created for the purpose, the green hydrogen can be fed into the hydrogen network of the Central Germany chemical industry in via a converted gas pipeline and used in the future for industrial or urban mobility solutions.

Technical concept

An accelerated energy transition and rapid expansion of renewable energies are essential for a secure energy supply and are more important today than ever before. We must consistently take the necessary steps to reach climate neutrality. A key aspect of this is hydrogen produced from renewable energies. At the Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park, the value chain from wind energy and hydrogen conversion to storage, transport and utilisation is being tested under production conditions. Such flagship projects show that the energy transition works on a large scale.

Dr. Robert Habeck

Federal Minister for Economics and Climate Protection