• Employee
  • Contact us
  • nl
  • fr
ColruytGroup
ColruytGroup
  • About us
    Close
    To overview
    History
    Mission and values
    Key figures
    Sustainability
    See our sustainability strategy
    Choose wisely using the Nutri-Score
  • Brands
  • Investors
    Close
    To overview
    Financial press releases
    Annual Report 2019/20
    All annual reports
    Shareholders' information
    Read our Annual Report 2019/20
  • Press
    Close
    To overview
    Press releases
    Media material
    Recalls
  • Working for us
    Close
    To overview
    Do together
    Grow together
    Dream together
  • Employee
  • Contact us
  • nl
  • fr
  • {{item}}

Stories

  • {{item.name}}

Search our stories

Financieel EN

  • {{item.name}}

Search our financial press releases

Media EN

  • {{item.name}}

Search the media material
{}
start portlet menu bar

Web Content Viewer

Display content menu Display portlet menu
end portlet menu bar
  • Home
  • Stories
Share

Filling up at our hydrogen station

8 September 2017

At our Dassenveld distribution centre in Halle, we’ve had a hydrogen station since 2012. It produces hydrogen using renewable energy from the wind turbines and solar panels there. And we use that green energy as fuel. The station has a production capacity of 2.7 kg hydrogen per hour and can store up to 85 kg of it.

Producing hydrogen, storing it and converting it back into electricity

The installation produces hydrogen via electrolysis based on green energy. We use the hydrogen for two things. First, an increasing number of pallet transporters in the distribution centre run on hydrogen. Second, our company fleet already counts 18 hydrogen cars which fill up regularly at the station. And that’s not all: the 120 kW fuel cell works as a buffer. The surplus green energy is stored as hydrogen. When we don’t generate enough power, we convert the hydrogen back into electricity.

Hydrogen station
The hydrogen station has a storage capacity of 85 kg of hydrogen.

Don Quichote

We also carry out all kinds of tests at our hydrogen station. We do them for the Don Quichote project, a European research project into the potential of hydrogen as an energy buffer. What are these tests for? We mainly want to prove that it's technically and economically feasible to store and transport green power. And that hydrogen is ideal for doing that on a large scale. Dimitri adds, “We already had experience with hydrogen in transport and logistics, but you can see that we’re taking another step forward with the hydrogen fuel station.”

Logo Don Quichote


With this initiative, we contribute to the following Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

Affordable and clean energy Industry, innovation & infrastructure Sustainable cities and communities Climate action

Read more about

  • Environment

Other stories about

  • Colruyt Group
  • DATS 24

Also interesting

European scoop: first 44-tonne hydrogen truck on the roads Will the car of the future run on hydrogen? Four questions about hydrogen First DATS 24 filling station for green hydrogen Colruyt Group (Eoly), Parkwind and Fluxys join forces in power-to-gas
Share
No results found
Read all stories
  • About us
  • Our Brands
  • Investors
  • Press
  • Working For Us
  • Contact us
  • Follow us
ColruytGroup
  • © Colruyt Group 2021
  • E-mail disclaimer
  • ${title}${badge}
${loading}