Former Uniper CEO joins HH2E Management Board

The company wants to make green hydrogen from Germany competitive.

The former head of the Düsseldorf-based energy company Uniper Andreas Schierenbeck is joining the board of the Hamburg-based hydrogen start-up HH2E. This was reported by the newspaper for the municipal economy. He is joined on the board by founder Alexander Voigt and CFO Mark Page. The start-up wants to produce green hydrogen from Germany so cheaply that it can compete with green hydrogen from the Middle East or other regions.

Schierenbeck looks back on a career spanning more than two decades in large, global organizations. "In these large companies, however, you also have to spend a lot of time dealing with the often very slow change in their culture as well as their internal bureaucracy," he is quoted as saying in the media report. He now wants to focus on something that has a direct and rapid impact: Innovation, technology and business models that can positively change the economy and society.

HH2E wants to produce green hydrogen in Germany as early as 2025 that costs as much as green hydrogen imported from the Middle East or Australia, for example, in 2030. This is to be made possible by the start-up's technology: A storage unit is to store wind and solar energy in the form of heat. A zinc electrolyzer is to have a particularly high level of efficiency. An electricity generation unit, consisting of a hydrogen turbine or a fuel cell, will in turn generate electricity without carbon.