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SIf, KCI, GE and Pondera assess viability of green hydrogen project

By: Tom Russell 17/05/2022 Pondera

General Hydrogen Windfarms

Sif Group (representing KCI the engineers), GE Renewable Energy and Pondera havesigned a Memorandum of Understanding for the feasibility study of a green hydrogen centralised offshore wind production project called AmpHytrite.

The AmpHytrite project is aimed at mastering the complexity of a centralised offshore and off-grid hydrogen production unit and is aiming a staged construction and operation of this green hydrogen offshore wind production unit. The ultimate objective of the project would be to contribute to large-scale green hydrogen production at sea.

Should the outcome of the study be viable, the realisation of the AmpHytrite demonstrator is preferably placed at Sif’s Maasvlakte 2 terminal in the Port of Rotterdam. The demonstrator is planned for operational use and testing by 2023.

The project scope, which is designed to simulate the complexity of having a centralised green hydrogen unit operating offshore and off-grid, would examine the end-to-end process: from the green electrons provided by the Wind Turbine Generator (WTG) to the required offtake profile for the onshore hydrogen customer. In doing so, the MoU would permit the parties to put in place a demonstration project to validate that a full commercial offshore, off-grid centralised green hydrogen wind farm project could be feasible.

The MoU envisions that the project will have three phases. Phase one would involve a concept study in which project teams of KCI, Sif, Pondera and GE Renewable Energy carry out a feasibility study of offshore, off-grid centralized green hydrogen production.

During the second phase, envisioned to be operational by 2023, a small-scale (producing approx. 750 tons of green H2 per annum) onshore unit at Sif’s Maasvlakte 2 terminal is foreseen to be installed, solely powered by the Haliade turbine on site, as if being offshore and off-grid.

The objective of this phase would be to develop and construct a smaller version of the main phase as proof of concept, taking on the full complexity of offshore and off-grid operation, whilst being installed onshore at the Sif terminal.

The third phase would involve scaling up the concept to a total wind farm size at full scale, offshore and off-grid, using the tested technology of Phase 2.

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