Energy & Science

Retired German Coal Plant to Get New Life as a Hydrogen Hub

  • Vattenfall repurposing Moorburg station with Mitsubishi, Shell
  • 1,600-megawatt plant in Hamburg halted at the end of last year

The coal-fired Moorburg power plant in Hamburg.

Photographer: Joern Pollex/Getty Images

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Vattenfall AB plans to turn the site of its recently shuttered Moorburg coal power plant in northern Germany into a hub for turning wind and solar power into hydrogen.