{"id":113096,"date":"2022-07-26T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T05:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=113096"},"modified":"2022-07-20T13:24:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T11:24:41","slug":"shell-to-start-building-europes-largest-renewable-hydrogen-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/shell-to-start-building-europes-largest-renewable-hydrogen-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell to start building Europe\u2019s largest renewable hydrogen plant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The 200MW electrolyser will be constructed on the Tweede Maasvlakte in the port of Rotterdam and will produce up to 60,000 kilograms of renewable hydrogen per day.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>The renewable power for the electrolyser will come from the offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust (noord), which is partly owned by Shell.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The renewable hydrogen produced will supply the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, by way of the HyTransPort pipeline<sup>1<\/sup>, where it will replace some of the grey hydrogen usage in the refinery. This will partially decarbonise the facility\u2019s production of energy products like petrol and diesel and jet fuel. As heavy-duty trucks are coming to market and refuelling networks grow, renewable hydrogen supply can also be directed toward these to help in decarbonising commercial road transport.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cHolland Hydrogen I demonstrates how new energy solutions can work together to meet society\u2019s need for cleaner energy. It is also another example of Shell\u2019s own efforts and commitment to become a net-zero emissions business by 2050,\u201d said <strong>Anna Mascolo, Executive Vice President, Emerging Energy Solutions at Shell<\/strong>. \u201cRenewable hydrogen will play a pivotal role in the energy system of the future and this project is an important step in helping hydrogen fulfil that potential.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Shell\u2019s ambition is to help build a global hydrogen economy by developing opportunities in the production, storage, transport, and delivery of hydrogen to end customers. Holland Hydrogen I\u2019s approval marks an important milestone on that journey not only for the Netherlands, as a leader in the hydrogen economy, but also for Shell globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>&nbsp;<sub><a href=\"https:\/\/hytransportrotterdam.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HyTransPort<\/a>&nbsp;is a new hydrogen pipeline through the Port of Rotterdam which will form a part of the Netherlands hydrogen infrastructure.<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Shell<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Shell owns and operates around 10% of the global capacity of installed hydrogen electrolysers, including a 20 MW electrolyser in China and a 10 MW proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyser in Germany. They can produce, respectively, 3,000 tonnes and 1,300 tonnes of hydrogen a year.<\/li><li>Shell is working on a number of low-carbon hydrogen production projects with potential capacity of over 950 ktpa (Shell share).<\/li><li>With Holland Hydrogen I, we aim to produce hydrogen using electricity that has been generated by the offshore wind park Hollandse Kust Noord. European Union legislation determines under what conditions the hydrogen produced can be defined as Renewable Hydrogen or as a Renewable Fuel of Non-Biological Origin (RFNBO). The criteria are covered by the \u2018<em>Renewable Energy Directive (RED)\u2019<\/em>&nbsp;and we aim to produce hydrogen in accordance with the Directive and its associated Delegated Acts (DAs). Some parts of the relevant EU legislation such as the Delegated Acts are under discussion and have not yet been finalised. We will take the resulting legislation into consideration when producing hydrogen.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 200MW electrolyser will be constructed on the Tweede Maasvlakte in the port of Rotterdam and will produce up to 60,000 kilograms of renewable hydrogen per day. The renewable power for the electrolyser will come from the offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust (noord), which is partly owned by Shell. The renewable hydrogen produced will supply [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Shell Nederland B.V. and Shell Overseas Investments B.V., have taken the final investment decision to build Holland Hydrogen I, which will be Europe\u2019s largest renewable hydrogen plant once operational in 2025","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[14144,12366,10630,10617,17493],"supplier":[5993,647],"class_list":["post-113096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-electrolysis","tag-fuels","tag-hydrogen","tag-jetfuel","tag-refinery","supplier-port-of-rotterdam","supplier-shell-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113096"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=113096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}