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The industry in North Sea Port currently is responsible for a high production and consumption of hydrogen. Photo courtesy of Tom D’haenens.
One shared goal Webinar North Sea Port as Hydrogen Hub Recently, North Sea Port’s strategic plan Connect 2025 was approved by the port company’s shareholders. As part of this, the port wants to play a leading role in the production and processing of green hydrogen. A webinar, titled ‘North Sea Port as hydrogen hub’, was organised on behalf of North Sea Port on 9 November and the speakers at the webinar all acknowledged the promising position of the cross-border port in the development of a European green hydrogen network. Hydrogen already plays an important role in the port area and with the new strategic plan recently launched, the time was right for North Sea Port, together with partners Fluxys and Gasunie, to bring together various stakeholders to discuss about its green hydrogen ambitions. During the webinar that attracted 500 online viewers, several aspects of the development of green hydrogen were
considered, and in this article you can read about some of those.
Current initiatives The industry in North Sea Port currently is responsible for a high production and consumption of hydrogen. 35% of the total Dutch amount of hydrogen is produced in Zeeland, where companies use these volumes mainly for their production process. Yara, for example, needs hydrogen for the production of ammonia, an import base ingredient for fertilisers. This hydrogen is produced using high volumes of natural gas and replacing this so-called grey hydrogen by sustainable hydrogen would mean considerable reductions in CO2 emissions. By means of electrolysers that use green electricity from, for example, offshore wind, a sustainable zero carbon hydrogen can be produced. Although green hydrogen might look like something of the future, at North Sea Port several projects have already been initiated that fit in the port company’s ambitions. Yara and Ørsted want to establish a 100MW electrolyser together at the Yara facility in Sluiskil (North Sea Port’s Terneuzen port area).
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