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Digital Campus Zollverein e.V. is a network platform for companies and institutions as well as forward-looking initiatives in the Metropole Ruhr. As an innovation driver, they strengthen digital and innovative competitiveness and promote cooperation and active exchange between companies, institutions, universities and startups. Digital Campus Zollverein sees itself as a digital real laboratory with supraregional appeal.

Whether in a power station, substation or power plant: high voltages and currents must be safely handled and distributed so that electricity can be safely fed into the grid. This is done in so-called ‘gas-insulated switchgears’, where special, industrially produced gases or gas mixtures ensure that the systems run smoothly and thus guarantee reliable power distribution. This is where DILO comes in: With its products and services, it enables operators of systems in which quenching and insulating gases must be handled safely not only to monitor and analyse them reliably, but also to extract, process or separate them emission-free and return them safely.

As economic development agency of the city of Essen, EWG promotes entrepreneurial commitment and offers a central contact and service platform for the economy. A dedicated team coordinates the H2 market ramp-up in Essen, supports the implementation of H2-projects and connects suitable partners. EWG accompanies business through all stages of settlement and integrates new settled companies into the broad network of the energy capital.

EVV, the Essener Versorgungs- und Verkehrsgesellschaft, does everything in its power to ensure that Essen continues to grow as an up-and-coming business location in the heart of the Ruhr metropolis. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of the City of Essen, EVV is a service provider, initiator, driver of innovation, and a co-creator of the energy revolution within the City of Essen Group.

Established in 1914 and headquartered in Cranberry Township, USA, MSA Safety is the global leader in developing and manufacturing safety products that protect people and facilities. MSA is one of the few suppliers of hydrogen gas and flame detection technologies with a complete range of products, helping the safe ramp-up of the hydrogen economy.

P3 energy solutions is a consultancy based on industrial expertise in the energy sector. We focus on the energy grids and the hydrogen economy, helping OEMs, project developers and investors to build their product, create their project and optimize their investment.

Within the RWE Group, RWE Generation SE is responsible for electricity generation using gas, hard coal, hydrogen, hydropower and biomass. Our approximately 3,000 employees operate power plants in Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Turkey. With our flexible, efficient power plant portfolio, we are building the bridge to the age of renewable energies. With its gas fleet, RWE Generation ranks second in Europe – an excellent starting position, as gas is becoming increasingly important as a bridge to the renewable age. RWE Generation is also represented in many core markets with hydropower. Our hydrogen business plays an important role here, as hydrogen is seen as the energy source of the future. In the Netherlands in particular, we are focussing on biomass – and are converting two hard coal-fired power plants to use this CO2-neutral energy source. By converting power plants and successfully developing storage technologies, RWE Generation is making a decisive contribution to the ambitious goal of RWE as a whole: to be climate-neutral by 2040.

Düsseldorf-based Uniper is an international energy company with activities in more than 40 countries. The company and its roughly 7,000 employees make an important contribution to supply security in Europe, particularly in its core markets of Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Uniper’s operations encompass power generation in Europe, global energy trading, and a broad gas portfolio. Uniper procures gas-including liquefied natural gas (LNG)-and other energy sources on global markets. The company owns and operates gas storage facilities with a total capacity of more than 7 billion cubic meters.

Westenergie AG, with its headquarters in Essen, is the biggest energy and infrastructure provider in Germany and the largest subsidiary company of E.ON SE. The Westenergie Group’s distribution system operators cover a 37,000 km long gas network. The electricity grid managed by the group covers a network around 196,000 km long — enough to lap the world five times over. With the provided infrastructure, the Westenergie Group ensures an energy supply to millions of households in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate und Lower Saxony — not only with electricity and gas, but also with water and broadband internet. With approximately 10,000 employees and around 1,400 municipal partnerships, the company makes a significant contribution to shaping a climate-neutral western region in Germany.