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Leading energy specialist Shell has unveiled plans to develop what it says will be Europe's largest "green" hydrogen generation project, powered by wind power in the Netherlands. The company's Dutch arm this weekend published plans to build new wind farms in the North Sea, with a total capacity of 3-4MW to power the electrolyser of a "mega-hydrogen" facility in Eemshaven. The wind facility and hydrogen center would be completed in 2030. According to plans, the hydrogen facility would produce around 800,000 tons of hydrogen annually. Its product would be supplied to companies in the Netherlands and northwestern Europe through infrastructure supplied by Gasunie , the Dutch natural gas supply firm. Gasunie has said it can use its existing infrastructure to store and supply hydrogen, mitigating the disruption and emissions associated with additional construction. Shell believes that once the facility, called NortH2, comes online, it will be able to expand adjacent wind generation capacity to 10MW by 2040, thereby increasing the facility's hydrogen output.
The company claims this expansion could mitigate seven megatons of emissions annually from industrial customers. A feasibility study on the plans is expected to begin in the coming weeks and be completed by the end of 2020. Shell and Gasunie will seek input from Groningen Seaports and other key stakeholders throughout the process. Shell said in a statement that it had chosen the Eemshaven location because of its "great potential" for large-scale offshore wind and its ability to link onshore and offshore generation and storage. Furthermore, the Dutch national government aims Job Function Email List to reduce national emissions by 95%, compared to a 1990 baseline, under its Climate Agreement. Shell therefore believes it can find more local partners for NorthH2. To carry out this project, we will need several new partners. Together we will have to be pioneers and innovators to bring together all the available knowledge and skills required. The energy transition requires guts, audacity and action. Netherlands, Marjan van Loon President and Director of Shell life is a gas Hydrogen could provide clean energy for homes, businesses and transport networks, if it is produced from low-carbon sources, or if the carbon emissions created from it are captured. As such, hydrogen is seen as a critical part of the future energy mix, despite being in its relative infancy in these applications globally.
To that end, the European Investment Bank ( EIB ) committed late last year to accelerate financing for hydrogen solutions across the EU. The move complements the €100 billion EU Green Deal, which aims for a just transition to a carbon-neutral bloc by 2050, and the EIB's own commitment to stop financing fossil fuel projects in 2021. Here in the UK specifically, BEIS recently confirmed that £70 million will be spent to fund low-carbon hydrogen production plants near Mersey and Aberdeen, along with a project using offshore wind farms off the coast of Grimsby to produce clean hydrogen. Separately, the UK's first pilot project injecting zero-carbon hydrogen into an existing gas network recently began at Keele University . In its advice to the UK Government on meeting net zero by 2050, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) warned that large-scale hydrogen is a “necessity, not an option” to decarbonise the heavy industry and manufacturing sectors. UK transport. This advice was based on previous research that concluded that “20 significant volumes of hydrogen” would need to be brought online by .