RWE has signed an settlement to provide an annual quantity of 30,000 metric tons of renewable hydrogen for 15 years to assist decarbonize TotalEnergies SE’s Leuna refinery within the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
The hydrogen will come from RWE’s 300-megawatt electrolyzer within the city of Lingen, state of Decrease Saxony. “Inexperienced hydrogen storage will likely be supplied domestically”, TotalEnergies stated in a web based assertion. “The inexperienced hydrogen will likely be delivered by a 600-km [372.82 miles] pipeline to the gates of the refinery and can stop the positioning’s emission of some 300,000 tons of CO2 [carbon dioxide] starting in 2030.
“That is the most important amount of inexperienced hydrogen ever contracted from an electrolyzer in Germany”.
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Utilizing 30,000 metric tons of electyrolytic hydrogen in a refinery avoids 300,000 metric tons a yr of CO2, the equal of annual emissions from 140,000 automobiles, Essen-based RWE famous in a separate press launch.
RWE intends to faucet on a hydrogen storage facility in Gronau-Epe within the state of North Rhine-Wesphalia to reliably ship the hydrogen for TotalEnergies even throughout occasions of little wind or solar. It expects to place the storage facility into service 2027.
“The availability relationship between RWE and TotalEnergies will likely be facilitated by the German hydrogen core community”, RWE stated.
The EUR 18.9 billion ($20.54 billion) community has an permitted size of 9,040 kilometers (5,617.2 miles) throughout home borders in Germany, about 60 % of which might be repurposed current pure gasoline pipelines, in response to venture implementer FNB Fuel e.V. The primary main pipeline within the community is anticipated to go surfing this yr. The HCN is anticipated to be accomplished 2032.
Patrick Pouyanné, chair and chief govt of the French power big, commented, “We’re wanting ahead to growing additional our partnership with RWE, our associate in a number of offshore wind tasks in Germany and the Netherlands”.
RWE chief govt Markus Krebber stated, “We’re proud to have secured the primary long-term offtake settlement for inexperienced hydrogen of this measurement with TotalEnergies in Germany”.
Decrease Saxony Prime Minister Stephan Weil stated, “This contract additionally sends an vital sign to the vital power metropolis of Lingen and for the event of a hydrogen financial system in Decrease Saxony and all through Germany”.
“The manufacturing and advertising and marketing of inexperienced hydrogen on an industrial scale, which we as a state additionally help financially, is an important prerequisite for the profitable transformation of our business in the direction of local weather neutrality”, Weil added. “Decrease Saxony is main the best way on this space in Germany: 50 % of the EU-approved manufacturing of inexperienced hydrogen in Germany is in Decrease Saxony, and 20 % of the hydrogen core community is being realized in Decrease Saxony.
“Now it is very important additional strengthen business demand and push forward with the enlargement of the hydrogen core community with all our energy. We additionally have to design the framework circumstances in such a approach that hydrogen tasks may be permitted extra simply and shortly”.
“Saxony-Anhalt is a land of the chemical business in addition to of renewable energies”, stated Saxony-Anhalt Minister-President Reiner Haseloff. “Inexperienced hydrogen is a vital hyperlink between these two industries”.
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