Norwegian developer H2Carrier has utilized for permission to construct two large offshore wind farms in probably the most northeastern a part of Norway so as to produce inexperienced hydrogen and ammonia.
The intention is to construct 1.55GW of wind energy capability on the north coast of the Finnmark area so as to produce inexperienced hydrogen and ammonia on board a floating vessel designed by the corporate and moored on the web site.
H2Carrier says its True North Inexperienced Ammonia venture would produce 109,000 tonnes of inexperienced hydrogen a yr on the web site — suggesting an electrolyser measurement of about 1GW — and 610,000 tonnes of inexperienced ammonia.
Highly effective winds
That a part of Norway — particularly the Varanger and Skjøtnigberg/Nordkyn peninsulas close to the Russian border, nicely contained in the Arctic Circle — has among the many strongest onshore winds on this planet, with common wind speeds of round 10-11 metres per second, based on the World Wind Atlas.
The venture would use the H2Carrier-designed P2XFloater, which the corporate describes as “the world’s first floating manufacturing unit for producing inexperienced ammonia at industrial scale”.
“Not like different inexperienced ammonia manufacturing (amenities), the P2XFloater doesn’t require leasing or buying of land, storage tanks, pier building or constructional and operational concessions,” the corporate explains on its web site.
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The vessel accommodates its personal desalination unit, permitting sea water for use in electrolysers that cut up hydrogen and oxygen, and presents ship-to-ship switch of liquid ammonia by way of hoses, basically making it an export terminal too.
H2Carrier touts the P2XFloater expertise as providing probably the most versatile choices for finding the place renewable vitality has the bottom value, so as to produce competitively priced inexperienced ammonia.
H2Carrier additionally factors out that the venture — which might be surrounded by small fishing villages and never a lot else — would have “a major affect on native and regional worth creation by the use of employment alternatives, improved public revenues and can provide a variety of alternatives to regionally based mostly corporations”.
Purposes have been despatched to the Norwegian Water Assets and Vitality Directorate for approval, though it seems to be an early-stage venture.
H2Carrier has beforehand introduced plans for the same inexperienced hydrogen and ammonia venture in Greenland, utilizing 1.5GW of onshore wind and the P2XFloater vessel, however the firm has not revealed any updates on that venture because it was first introduced originally of 2023.
(A model of this text was first printed by Recharge’s sister publication Hydrogen Perception)
