Eneco has submitted its planning application for the construction of the ‘Eneco Electrolyser’, a green hydrogen production plant in Rotterdam’s Europoort industrial area.
Eneco is working together with Mitsubishi on this through the Eneco Diamond Hydrogen joint venture. By building the plant, Eneco can help industrial customers make their processes and products more sustainable.
The Eneco Electrolyser will use renewable energy from solar parks and wind farms to produce clean hydrogen that’s initially aimed towards the industrial sector. Hydrogen could eventually replace natural gas as a fuel in the industrial and electricity sectors and play a part in more flexible production of electricity.
The Eneco Electrolyser will be developed next to the Enecogen power station in Europoort. This location means the two facilities can share some infrastructure, which has advantages with regard to costs and realisation time. The Eneco Electrolyser will have a capacity of eventually 800 megawatts. This means it will be able to produce up to 80 kilotonnes of hydrogen every year, depending on the amount of renewable energy available and the demand for green hydrogen from the industrial sector.
Improving the sustainability of industrial customers is in keeping with Eneco’s One Planet Plan, which aims to make Eneco and all its customers climate-neutral by 2035. In addition, the Netherlands and Europe have set targets for the production of green hydrogen. The Netherlands, for example, intends to increase green hydrogen production capacity to 4 gigawatts by 2030.
Eneco has submitted its planning application with the expectation that it will be able to work towards building the Eneco Electrolyser over the next few years. Construction is scheduled to start in 2026, and the hydrogen plant is currently scheduled to start operating in 2029.
