Vitality main Shell will begin developing a renewable hydrogen plant within the Netherlands that it stated would be the largest venture of its type in Europe when operational in 2025.
Set to be powered by an offshore wind farm partly owned by Shell, the 200MW electrolyser shall be constructed within the port of Rotterdam and can produce as much as 60,000kg of renewable hydrogen per day.
The hydrogen will provide a Shell refinery, the place it would exchange some gray hydrogen utilization and partially decarbonise the manufacturing of petrol, diesel and jet gas, in line with the corporate.
“Renewable hydrogen will play a pivotal function within the vitality system of the long run and this venture is a vital step in serving to hydrogen fulfil that potential,” stated Anna Mascolo, govt vice chairman of rising vitality options at Shell.
The announcement comes after the Netherlands’ first solar-powered inexperienced hydrogen venture was accomplished earlier this 12 months, in line with the companions behind the set up, electrical energy and gasoline distribution community firm Alliander and GroenLeven, a subsidiary of renewables developer BayWa r.e.
That pilot venture is being utilized by the 2 corporations to discover how solar-plus-hydrogen developments can ease grid congestion.
