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RWE projects secure EU Innovation Fund grants

By: Tom Russell 14/07/2022 RWE

General Hydrogen Windfarms

RWE announced that two of its projects have been pre-selected for funding by the EU Innovation Fund. One of the concerned projects is an offshore wind farm off Germany.

The two projects are among a total of 17 projects selected by the EU Innovation Fund for the preparation of grant agreements, which is now underway.

The EU Innovation Fund subsidises breakthrough technologies for renewable energy, energy-intensive industries, energy storage and carbon capture, use and storage.

RWE secure funding for the Nordsee Two offshore wind farm which it is developing together with its Canadian partner Northland Power (49%). The wind farm with a planned grid capacity of 433 MW is to be built north of the island of Juist and is scheduled to start commercial operation in 2026.

In addition to deploying the latest model of wind turbines (min 15 MW each), RWE and Northland Power aim to demonstrate the technical and commercial feasibility of producing hydrogen at sea. For this purpose, an electrolyser is planned to be integrated into the offshore wind farm. The green hydrogen could then be used for vessel fueling and to supply emergency power to the offshore substation or wind turbines.

The other project to secure funding was RWE's FUREC (Fuse Reuse Recycle) venture. RWE wants to produce hydrogen for the chemical industry and thus contribute to making production processes more sustainable. Household waste from Limburg in the Netherlands is to replace natural gas. The FUREC project supports companies, scientific institutes and the province in their efforts to develop Limburg into a centre for the circular economy and a hydrogen hub between the Dutch seaports and the German Ruhr area.

For FUREC, a plant is being built in Limburg to process residual materials into raw material pellets. These will then be converted into hydrogen in another plant in Limburg's Chemelot industrial park, which will be supplied to OCI Nitrogen's fertiliser plants. In this way, the industrial park's natural gas consumption is reduced by more than 280 million cubic metres annually. RWE claims the CO2 released during hydrogen production can be captured and stored or possibly used as a raw material in the future. The hydrogen can be marketed locally in the Chemelot industrial park or transported to industrial companies in Rotterdam and the Ruhr area via a corresponding hydrogen infrastructure.

“We are delighted that two of our projects have been selected for funding. This shows that we can make an important contribution to decarbonising the European economy with our projects. With the grants that have been envisaged, we are now developing the two selected projects at full speed in order to bring about final investment decisions quickly and to press ahead with the necessary approval procedures,” said Roger Miesen, CEO of RWE Generation.

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