French hydrogen producer Lhyfe has unveiled plans for a new 800 MW project in Lubmin, Germany, to supply the future European hydrogen backbone network.

Lhyfe revealed that the company plans to produce up to 330 tons of green hydrogen per day in the Lubmin plant, which is said to be one the largest plants to be built in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, with a targeted commissioning date by 2029. The plant will be built on the site of a decommissioned nuclear power plant.

According to Lhyfe, the new project site will offer access to extensive existing and future electricity production capacities from offshore wind farms, and it benefits from an extra-high voltage grid connection operated by the transmission system operator 50Hertz, which already operates a transformer station in Lubmin and will feed all the required electricity power to produce hydrogen.

As part of the company’s backbone development strategy, Lhyfe said the plant will feed into the German core hydrogen pipeline network, expected to transport hydrogen across the country and to Germany’s neighbors. Recently, the German government announced an estimated investment of €20 billion in the network by 2032.