European sea breezes are producing hydrogen in full swing
Time：2022/6/13 13:15:11 Tag：European，green hydrogen,the first quarter of 2023,offshore
A coalition of German industry associations has launched an initiative called offshore-Wind-H2-Eight, which calls for larger and more specific phased steps to increase the role of Offshore Wind in Germany's renewable hydrogen production plans.
The offshore-Wind-H2-Eight joint agenda document includes six measures in total.
The first is to set mandatory targets. Currently, the new Version of WindSeeG is in the draft revision stage, and the initiative proposes to add provisions related to green hydrogen, including opening the tender of 3GW of green hydrogen (2GW of offshore hydrogen +1GW of onshore hydrogen) in the first quarter of 2023, and setting the target of producing 10GW of hydrogen from offshore wind by 2035.
Secondly, green hydrogen development zones should be established. The offshore-Wind-H2-Eight alliance says only 300MW has been planned for hydrogen production in the North Sea for Offshore Wind so far.
The initiative also proposes that the government subsidize the industry, with a long-term subsidy plan of no less than 10 billion euros, to expand the size of the market and quickly reduce industry costs.
In addition, the initiative also includes:
Under the eu's latest draft, only hydrogen produced by the electrolysis of electricity from new, unsubsidised wind farms and photovoltaic plants could be defined as green hydrogen; The initiative argues that a wider range of electrolytic power sources should be allowed.
Offshore wind produces hydrogen and sends it through pipelines, which costs one-fifth as much as offshore wind does by cable, so a network of hydrogen pipes in the North Sea is needed.
Establish more offshore wind and hydrogen industry organizations, develop standards and train relevant technical personnel.
In June 2020, the German government has released energy strategy, to invest 7 billion euros for the next 10 years the development of hydrogen technology, and then put into billions of euros for the construction of the related industrial chain, namely the transformation of iron and steel industry, chemical industry, transportation industry equipment, to apply the hydrogen), built in 2030 years ago at least 5 gw electrolytic hydrogen production project.
The AquaVentus project, developed by 40 companies including RWE, Vattenfall, Shell and Equinor, is currently the largest green hydrogen project in Germany. It is located near Heligoland in the North Sea of Germany and is expected to produce 1 million tons of green hydrogen per year by 2035.