The Institute for Sustainable Process Technology recently showed off a design for a new and advanced gigawatt-scale green hydrogen plant that could be up and running by 2030.
If you want to make hydrogen, you can use both alkaline water electrolysis (AWE) and polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) water electrolysis to do it. This is a green hydrogen plant with a lot of power: It can make hydrogen with 1 GW of power. They want to put it in a Dutch port area and run it with wind power from the North Sea. The factory can change how it works depending on how much wind there is. It also meets energy network rules and rules about safety, health, and the environment.
Furthermore, the investment is not too big. When the Hydrohub Gigawatt Scale Electrolyser project is done in 2020, it will have already made a first design for an electrolyser factory. In two years, the project has made a better design with a lot less money spent on it. The total cost for both AWE and PEM now stands at 730 €/kW or 1580 €/kg H2/d. The cost of building a GW-scale (AWE) electrolysis plant is $730 million.
The program is already working on the necessary changes in infrastructure, electrolyser technology, safety, and regulations, to name a few. ISPTC worked with companies like Dow Chemical and Gasunie as well as universities like Imperial College London and TU/e. They also worked with knowledge institutes like TNO and Imperial College London. Because the Hydrohub Gigawatt-Scale Electrolyser project is co-financed by TKI Energy and Industry and the government’s “TKI Supplement” for Top Consortia for Knowledge and Innovation (TKIs), the project is getting extra money from the government.
