On the site of the Bosbüller hydrogen farm, two electrolysers produce 100 kilograms of hydrogen per day.
Image: GP Joule
Everyone wants it, North Friesland has it: Far in the north, the eFarm project is exploring how an entire region can benefit from green hydrogen.
AHydrogen often has to be called the champagne of the energy transition. Who first let loose the metaphor on the media landscape, which is always greedy for metaphors, is not known and in the end it doesn’t matter. The picture is in the world. Desired, fine, noble, these are the attributes that adhere to it. Exactly how expensive, rare, elitist.
Ove Petersen tries a different picture. Fill up with hydrogen? “It’s like getting home-baked bread made from your own grain out of the oven for the first time.” With a mug of tea in hand, Petersen gets out of his electric sports car and stands on the edge of a wind farm. It borders the village of Bosbüll with a population of 200 and is one of the first wind farms in North Frisia. A product of the nineties and one that the citizens could make a profit from. Petersen thinks: “A historical place.” But the wind farms are not alone. New substations are shooting up between the marshland and Knicks, power lines cross the country roads, biogas plants billow out their roofs, solar systems are stilted over the fields. Anyone driving to Bosbüll crosses a landscape in which the energy transition can be seen on every kilometer.
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