Plug Energy Inc. will construct a 35-tons-per-day inexperienced hydrogen technology plant at Port of Antwerp-Bruges within the coronary heart of Europe. Plug signed a 30-year concession settlement to construct the plant on the Belgian port, the second-largest in Europe.
Plug plans to erect a 100-megawatt inexperienced hydrogen plant, utilizing its personal electrolyzer and liquefaction expertise, on 28 acres of land leased beneath the settlement. Plug will produce as much as 12,500 tons per 12 months of liquid and gaseous inexperienced hydrogen for the European market.
Building of the plant will start upon completion of the allowing course of, anticipated in late 2023. Preliminary manufacturing of inexperienced hydrogen is predicted in late 2024, and plant commissioning will likely be in 2025.
Port of Antwerp-Bruges sits in a strategic location in Europe. On the middle of the biggest chemical business cluster in Europe and near the North Sea, it offers transportation connections to Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, UK, and France. It’s lower than an hour’s drive to Brussels, the capital of Europe.
The port space can also be one of many busiest logistics areas in Europe, dealing with yearly 289 million tons of maritime freight, 24 million tons of rail freight, and 108.5 million tons of barge freight. Sixty % of Europe’s buying energy is positioned inside 300 miles.
Port of Antwerp-Bruges, set to change into a serious hydrogen hub for Europe, has plans to be a lighthouse port for climate-neutral infrastructure.
The location location offers the chance for a prepared provide of electrical energy from on-site and site-adjacent wind generators producing dozens of megawatts, with an electrical interconnection level lower than a mile away. As well as, the location affords water, highway, rail, and pipeline entry for the supply of inexperienced hydrogen to prospects. An open-access hydrogen pipeline will likely be constructed alongside the location, and Plug has signed a contract with Fluxys to have interaction in a feasibility examine for enabling a connection to the pipeline, which will likely be a part of a European open-access hydrogen spine.
Plug will construct within the port’s NextGen District, an space devoted to corporations supporting the round economic system. Leveraging the cluster being assembled within the NextGen district, Plug is exploring partnerships to finish the round use of wastewater expelled in the course of the manufacturing of inexperienced hydrogen.
NextGen District
Greater than 1,500 acres of coated warehousing at Port of Antwerp-Bruges helps heavy manufacturing industries. Plug will contribute to decarbonizing the logistics flows of the port, with materials dealing with options, gasoline cell vans by way of HYVIA—a three way partnership between Plug and Renault—and stationary energy options for shore energy.
North Sea nations are main producers of wind energy with greater than 15 gigawatts (GW) of put in capability. They’ve dedicated to develop capability to 65 GW by 2030 and 150 GW by 2050, as a part of a latest cooperation settlement signed by Belgium, Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands. The European Union not too long ago launched a $315-billion REPowerEU initiative to help the shift from Russian fossil fuels to renewable power together with inexperienced hydrogen.
