The manufacturer is working alongside sustainable hydrogen supplier Hygro and the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) at a testing site at Wieringerwerf in North Holland.
The consortium aims to be capable of distributing wind-generated hydrogen to at least five fuel stations, able to refuel a total of 100 trucks simultaneously.
In the future the turbines could be connected to a hydrogen gas network rather than an electricity grid, Lagerwey stated.
"Transporting hydrogen by pipeline is significantly cheaper than transporting electricity by cable," the manufacturer explained.
Hydrogen-producing projects
Several other projects linking wind energy to hydrogen have been launched or mooted in recent months.
A group of prefectural and city governments and technology companies in Japan built a demonstration project using a ten-year-old Vestas V80 2MW turbine to electrolyse water and create low-carbon hydrogen.
A consortium of European transmission system operators and gas infrastructure companies are aiming to create a , from which surplus power could be used to produce hydrogen for large-scale storage.
And in the UK, carmaker Toyota is electrolysing excess power from a 225kW wind turbine to produce hydrogen that in turn powers its Mirai car.
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