Deep Wind Offshore has joined forces with the hydrogen firm Hy2gen to provide inexperienced hydrogen from offshore wind.
“The mixture of offshore wind and hydrogen has bought huge potential. It’s not doable to attain internet zero with out inexperienced vitality carriers, who will want a large quantity of renewable vitality,” mentioned Knut Vassbotn, CEO of Deep Wind Offshore.
In keeping with Deep Wind Offshore, one of many principal challenges with offshore wind growth is entry and capability in energy grid.
Together with hydrogen, these challenges are eliminated, mentioned the corporate, for the reason that energy from offshore wind can be utilized instantly within the manufacturing of inexperienced vitality carriers.
This is likely one of the drivers for the cooperation settlement with Hy2gen, Deep Wind Offshore mentioned.
“Utilizing vitality carriers reminiscent of hydrogen is undoubtedly the simplest approach to cut back CO2 emissions from business and the transport sectors. This additionally resonates with the EU’s local weather goal, that 42 per cent of hydrogen in business should come from renewable vitality sources by 2030,” mentioned Hege Økland, Normal Supervisor of Hy2gen Norway.
Norway goals to award 30 GW of offshore wind by 2040. Ought to 16 GW be transformed to ammonia, which is produced from inexperienced hydrogen, to be used in maritime gasoline, it might lower 100 per cent of Norway’s whole maritime emissions of 10 million tonnnes of CO2 yearly, in response to Deep Wind Offshore.
Deep Wind Offshore, owned by Knutsen Gruppen, Haugaland Kraft, Sunnhordland Kraftlag, and Octopus Vitality, is a global developer and proprietor of offshore wind tasks, with headquarters in Haugesund.
The corporate has a presence in Sweden and South Korea and goals to show 10 GW into 10 TWh internet capability inside ten years.
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In relation to Hy2gen, the corporate develops, funds, builds, and operates services for the manufacturing of inexperienced hydrogen and hydrogen-based merchandise reminiscent of ammonia, sustainable aviation gasoline or methanol.
The corporate at the moment has operations in Europe, Canada, and the USA.
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