On 15 February, Mayor Christoph Tesche, City of Recklinghausen, and Dr. Thomas Gößmann, Chairman of the Management Board of Thyssengas, officially started the construction of the new operations centre in Recklinghausen with a ground-breaking ceremony.
Around 1,500 km of the Thyssengas pipeline network are already controlled, maintained and monitored from the Recklinghausen site. In future, Thyssengas' regional H2 network will also be managed from the operations centre.
At the new site, which is located on a 7,500 m² site on Sibylla-Merian-Straße in Recklinghausen, around 50 employees will in future be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the Thyssengas pipeline network and thus for the secure supply of gas to the region.
The first cross-border H2 pipeline from Kalle in North Rhine-Westphalia to Vlieghuis in the Netherlands - a central section of the hydrogen core network - will then also fall under her remit.
"Helping to shape the energy transition in NRW as an industrial location"
The new plant should be ready for occupancy by mid-2025. Sustainability is high on the list of priorities: In addition to an ice storage system for heating and cooling and a PV system for generating electricity, there are also plans to green the roof, façade and outdoor areas.
"Thyssengas is on the way to a new chapter in the company's more than one hundred year history. Hydrogen and other green gases will shape the future", said Dr. Gößmann in his welcoming speech, emphasising Thyssengas' special relationship with the Ruhr region. "Our mission is clear: we are shaping the energy transition and, with our networks, will enable an energy supply without fossil fuels for the industrial location of North Rhine-Westphalia and beyond in the future", Gößmann continued. "As a child of the Ruhr region, the secure supply of gas to the region was, is and will remain part of our identity - which is why we are building a new and larger operating centre here in Recklinghausen."
(Quelle: Thyssengas)