According to the information, RWE and Shell want to develop green hydrogen solutions for industrial customers.
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Dusseldorf The energy groups RWE and Shell want to work closely together to develop the hydrogen business. To this end, both companies have signed an agreement in principle, RWE announced on Wednesday.
The aim of the agreement is to identify specific project options and develop them through to investment decisions. This applies to the generation, transport and use of green hydrogen.
In order to be able to meet the high future demand for the climate-neutral molecule, more and more corporations are joining forces to get the hydrogen economy going. Whether Shell, Mitsubishi and Vattenfall, Siemens Energy and Air Liquide or Uniper and Shell – the announcements of large partnerships in the field of hydrogen are steadily increasing.
It was not until the end of October that an alliance of companies, research institutes and public institutions called Aqua Ventus announced that they wanted to use electrolysers in the sea to produce green hydrogen from wind power at sea, which would then be brought to shore through pipelines. Including RWE, Eon, Siemens Energy and Shell.
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They initially want to install two wind turbines off Heligoland in 2025, with platforms for the electrolysers mounted on their towers. The first commercial offshore hydrogen park with an output of 290 megawatts is to be built in 2028. By the middle of the next decade, Aqua Ventus believes an installed capacity of ten gigawatts is feasible. This could almost halve the CO2 emissions of the German steel industry.
RWE and Shell are already working together on the GetH2 mega hydrogen project in the Netherlands. Now the energy company and the British-Dutch oil giant want to develop green hydrogen solutions for industrial customers, which are based on the Shell Energy & Chemicals Park Rheinland in Germany, the Shell locations in Rotterdam and Moerdijk in the Netherlands and on customers in theirs focus in the immediate vicinity.
They also intend to look for possible uses for green hydrogen in the mobility sector in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. The starting point for this could be the hydrogen filling station network for heavy trucks that Shell plans to build between Rotterdam, Cologne and Hamburg by 2024. However, the companies have not yet come up with any concrete plans.
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