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Released March 08, 2023 | SUGAR LAND
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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--While many combustion turbines presently installed in the U.S. can burn a certain percentage of hydrogen along with natural gas, developers are now starting to build plants with equipment specifically aimed at using hydrogen in their primary fuel mixes. Industrial Info is tracking more than $3.8 billion worth of active U.S. Power Industry projects that are being built with the aim to use hydrogen as a fuel source, mostly in conjunction with natural gas.
Among the largest projects aimed at a natural gas-hydrogen fuel mix is Intermountain Power Agency's (South Jordan, Utah) IPP Renewed project. The company's Intermountain Power Project (IPP) in Delta, Utah, has served as a coal-fired generating facility for more than 30 years. The IPP Renewed project includes the retirement of existing coal-fired units at the Delta site and the installation of 840 megawatts (MW) of combustion turbine-generator sets that burn both gas and hydrogen. The units will be designed to utilize 30% hydrogen as fuel at startup and are planned to transition to 100% hydrogen by 2045 as the technology improves. Construction kicked off in 2021 and is expected to be completed in mid-2025. The largest purchaser of power from the plant is the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Power Project Database can click here for more details.
Other plants will have the capability of using even larger percentages of hydrogen in their fuel mixes from day one. Kindle Energy LLC's (Princeton, New Jersey) 705-MW Magnolia Generating Station in Plaquemine, Louisiana, for example, will be able to burn a 50%-50% mix of hydrogen and natural gas from startup. The power will go to five rural electric cooperatives in Louisiana.
The ability of the plant to burn hydrogen may have had somewhat of a calming effect on critics of the plant's construction, who pointed out that Louisiana is aiming for net-zero emissions by 2050 and that the plant's use of natural gas would create greenhouse gas emissions. No details of how or when the plant could switch completely to hydrogen were included in regulatory filings. Nevertheless, however much or little hydrogen is used by the plant, Louisiana will still be coming out ahead in regard to emissions reduction as the new facility is expected to replace coal-fired and other low-efficiency generating technologies in the state, according to an executive at Kindle Energy. Construction recently began at the site, and the facility is expected to begin operations in 2025. Subscribers can click here for the full report.
While the two previously discussed projects involved combined-cycle units, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation (Green Bay, Wisconsin) is installing seven reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE) at its Weston Generating Station in Rothschild, Wisconsin, that can burn up to 25% hydrogen along with natural gas. The 1,000-MW+ Weston plant currently uses coal and natural gas for baseload power generation. The seven RICE units would boost generating capacity by up to 128 MW. Engineering, procurement and construction contractor Burns & McDonnell (Kansas City, Missouri) is expected to wrap up work this summer. Subscribers can click here for more information.
Leading renewable energy company NextEra Energy Incorporated (NYSE:NEE) (Juno Beach, Florida) is taking a vertical approach to its use of hydrogen by using one of its own solar facilities to produce green hydrogen--that is, hydrogen made using renewable energy. The solar power to make the hydrogen will come from the grassroot Cavendish Solar Energy Center, in Okeechobee, Florida, construction of which is expected to be completed by the end of this year. The facility will use approximately 250,000 solar modules to achieve a nameplate generating capacity of 74.5 MW. Subscribers can learn more by viewing the project report.
Power output from the Cavendish plant will be used at pilot-scale green hydrogen production unit at NextEra's gas-fired Okeechobee Clean Energy Center, which will produce hydrogen to provide 20 MW of power generation. Construction on the hydrogen unit is set to kick off later this year and is expected to be completed in 2024. Subscribers can click here for more details.
Other generators are looking to power part of their generation with hydrogen. At the Nine Mile Nuclear Power Station in Oswego, New York, Constellation Energy Corporation (Baltimore, Maryland) recently completed construction of a demonstration-scale green hydrogen unit that will produce 170,000 cubic feet per day of hydrogen that will be used for the plant's cooling turbine system. Construction kicked off in the first half of last year, and yesterday, Constellation announced that hydrogen production has begun. Subscribers can click here to learn more.
Subscribers to Industrial Info's GMI Database can click here to see reports for all of the projects referenced in this article, and click here for the related plant profiles.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of industrial market intelligence. Since 1983, IIR has provided comprehensive research, news and analysis on the industrial process, manufacturing and energy related industries. IIR's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) helps companies identify and pursue trends across multiple markets with access to real, qualified and validated plant and project opportunities. Across the world, IIR is tracking over 200,000 current and future projects worth $17.8 trillion (USD).
Among the largest projects aimed at a natural gas-hydrogen fuel mix is Intermountain Power Agency's (South Jordan, Utah) IPP Renewed project. The company's Intermountain Power Project (IPP) in Delta, Utah, has served as a coal-fired generating facility for more than 30 years. The IPP Renewed project includes the retirement of existing coal-fired units at the Delta site and the installation of 840 megawatts (MW) of combustion turbine-generator sets that burn both gas and hydrogen. The units will be designed to utilize 30% hydrogen as fuel at startup and are planned to transition to 100% hydrogen by 2045 as the technology improves. Construction kicked off in 2021 and is expected to be completed in mid-2025. The largest purchaser of power from the plant is the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Power Project Database can click here for more details.
Other plants will have the capability of using even larger percentages of hydrogen in their fuel mixes from day one. Kindle Energy LLC's (Princeton, New Jersey) 705-MW Magnolia Generating Station in Plaquemine, Louisiana, for example, will be able to burn a 50%-50% mix of hydrogen and natural gas from startup. The power will go to five rural electric cooperatives in Louisiana.
The ability of the plant to burn hydrogen may have had somewhat of a calming effect on critics of the plant's construction, who pointed out that Louisiana is aiming for net-zero emissions by 2050 and that the plant's use of natural gas would create greenhouse gas emissions. No details of how or when the plant could switch completely to hydrogen were included in regulatory filings. Nevertheless, however much or little hydrogen is used by the plant, Louisiana will still be coming out ahead in regard to emissions reduction as the new facility is expected to replace coal-fired and other low-efficiency generating technologies in the state, according to an executive at Kindle Energy. Construction recently began at the site, and the facility is expected to begin operations in 2025. Subscribers can click here for the full report.
While the two previously discussed projects involved combined-cycle units, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation (Green Bay, Wisconsin) is installing seven reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE) at its Weston Generating Station in Rothschild, Wisconsin, that can burn up to 25% hydrogen along with natural gas. The 1,000-MW+ Weston plant currently uses coal and natural gas for baseload power generation. The seven RICE units would boost generating capacity by up to 128 MW. Engineering, procurement and construction contractor Burns & McDonnell (Kansas City, Missouri) is expected to wrap up work this summer. Subscribers can click here for more information.
Leading renewable energy company NextEra Energy Incorporated (NYSE:NEE) (Juno Beach, Florida) is taking a vertical approach to its use of hydrogen by using one of its own solar facilities to produce green hydrogen--that is, hydrogen made using renewable energy. The solar power to make the hydrogen will come from the grassroot Cavendish Solar Energy Center, in Okeechobee, Florida, construction of which is expected to be completed by the end of this year. The facility will use approximately 250,000 solar modules to achieve a nameplate generating capacity of 74.5 MW. Subscribers can learn more by viewing the project report.
Power output from the Cavendish plant will be used at pilot-scale green hydrogen production unit at NextEra's gas-fired Okeechobee Clean Energy Center, which will produce hydrogen to provide 20 MW of power generation. Construction on the hydrogen unit is set to kick off later this year and is expected to be completed in 2024. Subscribers can click here for more details.
Other generators are looking to power part of their generation with hydrogen. At the Nine Mile Nuclear Power Station in Oswego, New York, Constellation Energy Corporation (Baltimore, Maryland) recently completed construction of a demonstration-scale green hydrogen unit that will produce 170,000 cubic feet per day of hydrogen that will be used for the plant's cooling turbine system. Construction kicked off in the first half of last year, and yesterday, Constellation announced that hydrogen production has begun. Subscribers can click here to learn more.
Subscribers to Industrial Info's GMI Database can click here to see reports for all of the projects referenced in this article, and click here for the related plant profiles.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of industrial market intelligence. Since 1983, IIR has provided comprehensive research, news and analysis on the industrial process, manufacturing and energy related industries. IIR's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) helps companies identify and pursue trends across multiple markets with access to real, qualified and validated plant and project opportunities. Across the world, IIR is tracking over 200,000 current and future projects worth $17.8 trillion (USD).
