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Huge ‘Megaton Moon’ plan eyes 60GW of wind and photo voltaic for inexperienced hydrogen



A plan to deploy 60GW of wind and photo voltaic alongside huge electrolyser capability will create one of many world’s largest inexperienced vitality parks in Mauritania, claimed the developer behind the undertaking, known as Megaton Moon.

Denmark-based GreenGo Power has utilized to the west African nation’s authorities to web site the renewables alongside 35GW of electrolysers in a phased build-out between 2028 and 2035.

The developer, which mentioned it met Mauritanian officers final week to debate the undertaking and the nation’s personal plans for a legislation masking inexperienced H2, reckons the event might finally energy manufacturing of some 4 million tonnes a yr of hydrogen for 18 million tonnes of inexperienced ammonia output.

GreenGo Power didn’t say how a lot the large plan would price, however claimed it could be financed by its “entrenched partnership method with Tier 1 traders within the inexperienced vitality area”.

GreenGo Power has been energetic since 2011 and has an current 27GW renewables pipeline, in line with its web site. Its founder and CEO, Karsten Nielsen, beforehand constructed the Bang&Olufsen ICE Energy audio expertise enterprise whereas the administration group additionally contains former First Photo voltaic and SunPower executives.

The corporate in January this yr unveiled a Megaton Power Park plan in Denmark itself to faucet 4GW of wind and photo voltaic to supply hydrogen.

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The Mauritania plan joins a string of inexperienced fuels mega-projects at varied phases of fruition world wide, however virtually all nonetheless in need of ultimate funding choices, catalogued lately by Recharge’s sister title Hydrogen Perception.

GreenGo Power claimed in addition to supporting much-needed inexperienced fuels manufacturing for the vitality transition – it reckons it might meet 1% of world renewable H2 wants by 2050 – Megaton Moon would use a few of its 190TWh of annual energy output for native necessities, together with desalination.

Nielsen mentioned: “Mauritania holds a number of the finest photo voltaic and wind useful resource cross on the planet, giant areas of appropriate flat land and coastal proximity for water and delivery. Inexperienced hydrogen manufacturing price is half of Northern Europe, doubtlessly decrease.

“Moreover, the area has a number of the most operator-friendly fiscal insurance policies on the continent, as documented by a historical past of serious oil and fuel investments by world vitality majors.”

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