The ZERO CARBON LITHIUM™ Project Phase One.
The Phase One area comprises the town of Landau and the surrounding municipalities of Insheim, Herxheim and Rohrbach. In addition to the existing geothermal power plants in Insheim and Landau, further drilling sites for geothermal energy are to be developed in this region in order to extract thermal water.
From these drilling sites, the extracted lithium-rich thermal water is transported via pipelines to central plants for lithium extraction and the production of energy and heat in Landau. After the heat and lithium have been extracted from the thermal water, the cooled brine is fed back underground, where it can be enriched with heat and lithium again.
Phase One should not only provide a local and CO2-neutral source of lithium for the European battery industry, but also bring economic and social benefits for the region. Examples of this include the creation and preservation of jobs and support for the energy and heating transition. It will also help local authorities to achieve climate protection targets and provide a sustainable and reliable heat supply for the population.
Vulcan is building a central lithium processing plant at Industriepark Höchst in Frankfurt. There, the lithium chloride obtained is converted into lithium hydroxide, the raw material for the battery industry, by means of electrolysis.
Vulcan works closely with regional energy suppliers to supply heat to the surrounding communities. Consequently, they are also the point of contact for end customers.
