Hydrogen as part of your energy infrastructure.
We design a hydrogen supply system that we integrate into your current energy infrastructure. This way, you can make your operations more sustainable without losing energy security and create room for business growth.
Engage us as your hydrogen architect for your energy challenges.
Or sign up for our hydrogen course.
Hydrogen balances energy supply and demand
Many companies are hindered in their plans and ambitions by...
Grid congestion
Feed-in costs
Limited sustainability options
...that’s why diversifying your energy supply is essential. It’s the only way to become more sustainable while also reducing your dependency. This is especially true for companies dealing with energy-intensive processes, high process heat, or heavy vehicles.
Hydrogen is the only sustainable energy carrier that delivers high power and can be stored for long periods.
Still, you mainly need a broad, nuanced perspective in which solar, wind, battery, hydrogen (and sometimes even natural gas) complement each other. This is the perspective HyMatters uses to approach your energy challenge.
Hydrogen fuels your future plans
For companies and project developers seeking greater energy security and sustainability, HyMatters is developing an innovative hydrogen solution.
We design the complete, necessary hydrogen infrastructure and make it complementary to your current energy systems. This way, you experience less grid congestion and gain a balanced energy mix that does not hinder your future plans, but rather fuels them.
Hydrogen specialist for project developers
Are you developing sustainable energy projects in which hydrogen plays a role? Then involve us as your hydrogen specialist. We can help you among other things with:
- Development of the energy concept.
- Design and sizing of the hydrogen installation.
- Elaboration of safety measures and permits.
- Development of the business case and market research.
- Supplier selection for system components.
This way, we support you from start to finish.
When do you use HyMatters?
If you recognize yourself in one (or more) of these challenges or needs, please get in touch.
If you want to expand in buildings or machinery, but your grid connection is too small.
If you want to know how to create an energy hub with your business park and how hydrogen can play a role in this.
If you want to store surplus solar panel energy for future use.
If you want to know how to make hydrogen complementary to battery/electric.
If you want to know how hydrogen can help to comply with nitrogen and CO2 regulations.
If you want to know how hydrogen can serve as a fuel for your transport fleet, whether or not in combination with electric.
Done for you ór taught to you
1. You engage us as a hydrogen architect for your energy challenge.
2. Or you enroll in our hydrogen course.
Engage us as your hydrogen architect
Get a balanced energy mix.
Be less hindered by grid congestion.
Create energy space for business growth.
Tell us about your plans and ambitions, and we will map out the required energy needs and show whether and how hydrogen can play a role in this.
Book the Hydrogen Course
5-day training.
In Arnhem, Dordrecht, Almelo or In-company.
Investment: €2,450 (excl. VAT).
The course provides you (or your team) with a solid foundational knowledge of hydrogen technology. This way, you become a fully-fledged sparring partner in the field of hydrogen.
In practice, it looks like this
These cases show that hydrogen offers solutions for a wide range of issues.
Mobile pump BBA Pumps
Flower bulb company Dogterom
Crematoria Twente
Hygenesys
H2Mode
Delivery of hydrogen to a location
Peeze Coffee Roastery
Hydrogen vision for the eastern part of the Netherlands
Residential area Wagenborgen
Hydrogen production site in Zutphen
Hydrogen production sites GreenH2UB
Rijnstate Elst hospital
Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam
Heating Eusebius church Arnhem
Frequently Asked Questions and Common Dilemmas
Why is hydrogen a good solution for grid congestion?
Not everything can be solved with electrification. Aside from the issues with grid congestion, electricity does not provide enough power for, for example, process heat in heavy industry. Or for transport involving long distances and/or heavy loads. In such cases, hydrogen is (at this moment) the only sustainable solution.
It is also the case that currently 80% of all our energy is supplied to users via molecules (natural gas). Only 20% is electric, but due to grid congestion, this is already at its limit. Therefore, in addition to the electricity grid, we need a separate energy infrastructure to avoid grid congestion and to be able to transport the required amount of energy in bulk at all.
What is being done at national level to establish this hydrogen infrastructure?
Work is underway on the national ‘hydrogen backbone’ of the Netherlands. Worldwide, hydrogen production sites are being established. The hydrogen produced there can be transported to the Netherlands, where it enters the national hydrogen backbone. From there, it is transported by pipeline to users. Production sites in the Netherlands can also feed into this hydrogen backbone. Hydrogen is therefore a system fuel that is essential to keep our energy infrastructure more independent and affordable.
Isn't a battery much more economical?
Batteries and hydrogen are often only compared as end applications. To make an efficiency comparison between hydrogen and battery-electric, you need to compare the entire chain (production, storage, distribution, transport, and use). If you include the entire energy infrastructure, you will conclude that hydrogen is necessary. However, it is not hydrogen versus battery-electric. In fact, hydrogen is complementary to battery-electric.
How are hydrogen and electricity complementary to each other?
The application scope of hydrogen is different from that of a battery. And we need both technologies to achieve a sustainable and flexible energy supply.
With a battery, you can only store energy on a day/night basis. Hydrogen, on the other hand, can be stored on a daily, weekly, and seasonal basis. It is also very unwise to become increasingly dependent on a single type of energy carrier. Do you also have an infrastructure for hydrogen? Then you spread the risks in terms of energy supply security.
How does HyMatters determine the ratio between hydrogen and battery electric power?
We first look at your local energy infrastructure. This includes your grid connection, gas connection, the amount of solar panels on your roof, any surplus capacity from your neighbors on the business park, and so on. From there, we calculate what additional energy you need and how you can meet that demand with energy from solar or wind, batteries, and hydrogen (and sometimes also natural gas).
In our view, hydrogen or batteries are therefore not the ultimate goal. We take a broad energy perspective on your needs and develop an energy vision from there.
How can hydrogen help construction companies comply with nitrogen and CO2 regulations?
Construction companies are increasingly required to comply with nitrogen and CO2 regulations. As an alternative to fossil fuels, you could place a large battery on the construction site, but these often contain relatively little energy. If you use a hydrogen trailer instead, you have about 10 times more energy available in the same size as a battery. This saves a lot of transport movements on the construction site.
This is a specific example. Please contact us for your particular situation.
What should you pay attention to when producing hydrogen?
Especially when applying hydrogen on a large scale, there are a number of things you need to take into account. For example, if you are building a site where hydrogen needs to be produced, you also need to arrange the offtake of hydrogen. In the first years of production, you will not be operating at 100% capacity and you will face ramp-up risks.
In other words: you need to invest in all links of the hydrogen chain (production, storage, distribution, application), so that these links are ready simultaneously and function as a complete chain. This is extensive, and for the development of such a comprehensive hydrogen infrastructure, subsidies are normally required. HyMatters also assists you with that subsidy process.
What does HyMatters do during the development of a hydrogen supply?
With knowledge and expertise, we support you as a project manager throughout the entire process. This process includes, among other things: developing an energy vision, working out the business case, design, sizing, calculating and simulating the mode of operation, supplier selection, permits, conducting safety studies, and providing support during the realization of the hydrogen supply.