The products delivered to PepsiCo’s Latin America plants will be mostly ‘Climate Choice’ fertilisers, produced either from hydrogen-based ammonia or through carbon capture and storage.
European Energy is set to begin delivering green hydrogen-based e-methanol from the Kassø plant to offtake partners including A.P. Moller – Maersk, the Lego Group, and Novo Nordisk.
The HAR2 shortlisted project will advance plans to produce hydrogen using a 35MW electrolyser and store it in a salt cavern in East Yorkshire.
The Chinese green tech firm will deploy green hydrogen and ammonia technologies at the planned industrial park, which will be “anchored” by SAF production.
Of the total $10.76bn in planned capital expenditure, $2.1bn is earmarked for low-carbon businesses and $1.67bn for decarbonisation efforts, but hydrogen is absent from any detailed investment breakdown.
BASF has started producing green ammonia and a 24.5% ammonia solution at its ISCC+ certified site in Germany.
“The biggest issue with blue hydrogen is that there’s no real incentive for it to be clean and there’s no disincentive if it’s not clean.”
“Such a change in scope would entail a substantially lower-cost project, one that does not assume availability of massive amounts of hydrogen and would instead rely on readily available and more economical fossil fuels.”
The non-binding memorandum of understanding with Coal India will see the pair explore the supply of up to 3GW of solar power and up to 2GW of wind.
IDTechEx highlighted that steelmakers need low-carbon hydrogen at $2–3/kg, far below the current $4–8/kg for green hydrogen, which has prompted companies to scale back investments.
