Port of Rotterdam Green Hydrogen Plant Moves Forward

Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland)--Gas services major Air Liquide (Paris, France) has made a final investment decision to move forward with its 500 million-euro (US$577 million) green hydrogen plant in the Netherlands.

The company's 200-megawatt (MW) ELYgator project will be located in the Maasvlakte conversion park at the Port of Rotterdam. When commissioned in 2027, it will have an estimated production capacity of 23,000 tonnes of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen annually and will be used to supply French energy company TotalEnergies SE's (NYSE:TTE) (Courbevoie, France) nearby refinery. Clean energy for the electrolyzers will be supplied by TotalEnergies' share of the proposed 795-MW OranjeWind offshore windfarm, which will be constructed and commissioned in 2027, as well as power purchase agreements with Vattenfall (Stockholm) from the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) offshore windfarm, also located off the Dutch coast. Air Liquide said that the electrolyzer "is a first of its kind" integrating both Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) and Alkaline technologies on the same site. Industrial Info is tracking two ELYgator projects at Rotterdam. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Project Database can click here for the reports.

"This investment decision is an important milestone and demonstrates our commitment to renewable hydrogen development," said Emilie Mouren-Renouard, Group Executive Committee member, Air Liquide. "We firmly believe that robust, large-scale initiatives like ELYgator will deliver a real impact for the European industry and heavy-duty mobility sectors. We welcome the support from the Dutch Government, which has been instrumental in our decision to move forward with this significant decarbonization project. ELYgator illustrates our drive to develop concrete technologies and solutions that directly contribute to Europe's ambitions towards climate neutrality by 2050."

The project has benefited greatly from financial support from the European Union's (EU) Innovation Fund, the Dutch IPCEI program and, most recently, the Dutch government's OWE subsidy scheme for large-scale hydrogen production projects using electrolyzers. Last month, the project was one of 11 to win an unspecified amount of financial support from the OWE tender, which was offering 700 million euro (US$808 million) in support. Together, the projects have a capacity of approximately 602 MW, which is slated for use by refineries, the chemical industry and fuel stations. Companies have until mid-2030 to complete their projects. Industrial Info is tracking almost 100 hydrogen related projects in the Netherlands worth more than US$11 billion in investment. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Project Database can click here for the reports.

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