Large-scale demo plant combining green hydrogen & CO2 into green methanol

Thursday, October 22 2020

ENGIE, North Sea Port and several other partners join forces to develop a first large-scale demo plant that will combine green hydrogen & CO2 into green methanol, to be used as feedstock for the local industry.

ENGIE will be responsible for the production of green hydrogen with a new 65 MW electrolysis unit at the Rodenhuize site. The ambition is to transform more than 400 GWh of renewable electricity, coming mainly from wind farms in the North Sea, into green hydrogen. This hydrogen will in turn serve as a raw material for the production of green methanol which will substitute fossil based methanol. Expected CO2 emission reductions are close to 140 ktons per year.

The Rodenhuize site, producing with biomass close to 15% of Flanders’ ambition level in green power in 2019, will deliver strategic project components such as HV grid access, demineralized water, and highly skilled technical workforce.