TotalEnergies SE has commissioned its eighth biomethane manufacturing unit in France.
The brand new BioNorrois plant, situated in Fontaine-le-Dun, will inject 153 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of biomethane per yr into the French gasoline transmission firm Natran’s pure gasoline transport community, equal to the typical annual gasoline consumption of greater than 30,000 inhabitants, TotalEnergies mentioned in a information launch.
“We’re delighted with the commissioning of this new anaerobic digestion unit in Normandy, comparable in dimension to BioBéarn, our largest manufacturing web site in France,” Karine Boissy-Rousseau, TotalEnergies Vice President for Inexperienced Gases, mentioned. “With this new plant, which brings our biogas manufacturing capability within the nation to greater than 800 GWh, TotalEnergies confirms its place as a significant participant available in the market. With Cristal Union, we’re partnering long-term with a strong, internationally acknowledged accomplice dedicated to sustainable development of its actions. With this new biogas undertaking, TotalEnergies continues to contribute to the promotion of a round financial system with a number of native advantages, the manufacturing of renewable energies, and the decarbonization of the French vitality combine”.
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“We’re happy with the commissioning of this biomethane manufacturing unit situated near our sugar manufacturing facility in Fontaine-le-Dun,” Xavier Astolfi, Cristal Union Normal Supervisor, mentioned. “Cristal Union has been dedicated to decarbonizing its actions for over 20 years. Not like many industries, now we have an asset: the power to valorize the residues of our manufacturing, beet pulp, and industrial effluents, and reuse them to supply vitality by anaerobic digestion or combustion. This partnership with TotalEnergies is a full-scale undertaking for the therapy of pulp. Past the manufacturing of biogas from our manufacturing residues, it’ll permit us to supply our accomplice farmers with digestate to unfold on their fields”.
Round 150,000 tons of annual manufacturing of digestate, a nutrient-rich byproduct of the method, shall be despatched to accomplice farms and help them of their transition to the usage of sustainable and regionally produced fertilizers, the corporate mentioned. The plant will save greater than 5,500 tons of chemical fertilizers and scale back emissions of round 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) yearly, it added.
Inexperienced Hydrogen Tasks in Netherlands
In the meantime, TotalEnergies has fashioned a 50/50 three way partnership with Air Liquide to develop two initiatives within the Netherlands for the manufacturing and supply of round 45,000 tons a yr of inexperienced hydrogen produced utilizing renewable energy, generated principally by the OranjeWind offshore wind farm.
The initiatives will lower CO2 emissions from TotalEnergies’ refineries in Belgium and the Netherlands by as much as 450,000 tons a yr and contribute to European renewable vitality targets in transport, the corporate mentioned in a separate information launch.
The three way partnership will construct and function a 250-megawatt (MW) electrolyzer close to the Zeeland refinery in Vlissingen, Netherlands, focusing on to supply as much as 30,000 tons of inexperienced hydrogen a yr, most of which shall be delivered to the refinery.
The electrolyzer shall be commissioned in 2029 and can lower the positioning’s CO2 emissions by as much as 300,000 tons a yr, TotalEnergies mentioned.
The undertaking represents a world funding of round $622.7 million (EUR 600 million) for the 2 firms, who’ve utilized for help underneath European and nationwide subsidy packages.
As a part of Air Liquide’s 200-MW ELYgator electrolyzer undertaking situated in Maasvlakte, Netherlands, TotalEnergies has additionally signed a tolling settlement for 130 MW for the devoted manufacturing of 15,000 tons per yr of inexperienced hydrogen to its platform in Antwerp, Belgium.
Below the settlement, TotalEnergies will provide the renewable electrons produced by the OranjeWind undertaking to Air Liquide to be remodeled into inexperienced hydrogen. The undertaking is anticipated to be operational by the tip of 2027 and can scale back CO2 emissions on the Antwerp web site by as much as 150,000 tons per yr, in accordance with the discharge.
“Following the primary partnership settlement with Air Liquide to produce the Normandy refinery with inexperienced hydrogen, and the agreements to produce the Grandpuits and La Mède biorefineries with renewable hydrogen, the partnership with Air Liquide takes on a brand new dimension and marks a brand new step in TotalEnergies’ ambition to decarbonize the hydrogen consumed by its refineries in Europe by 2030”, Vincent Stoquart, President for Refining and Chemical compounds at TotalEnergies, mentioned. “By supplying these two electrolyzers with renewable electrical energy from our offshore wind undertaking within the Netherlands, TotalEnergies is leveraging its positioning as an built-in electrical energy firm”.
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