Tree Energy Solutions (TES) is accelerating its previously stated intentions to transform the German port of Wilhelmshaven into a global center for Green Gas imports.
The expedited process will ensure Germany and Europe’s alternative energy security while also speeding the increase of Green Gas imports over time. With Green Hydrogen at its heart, the Wilhelmshaven green gas terminal is sustainable, carbon-neutral, and transitional, satisfying both the immediate and long term energy requirements of the German government.
A sustainable energy center for Wilhelmshaven that also accommodates LNG as a backup source of energy in light of the present energy crisis
TES’ Wilhelmshaven project, which began in 2019, is expected to play a greater role in supplying electricity to Germany and contributing to Europe’s energy policy in a sustainable manner, while also encouraging material economic growth in the region.
TES assures that accelerating its project will be entirely consistent with and supportive of the strategic objectives of sustainability and diversification of energy supply, including allowing for the early integration of gas imports alongside green gas imports. TES anticipates that this will not only speed the possibility of Germany achieving its sustainability targets, but will also help avoid future stranded assets.
“We are now planning further work to ensure an operational start of phase 1 by winter 2025 at scale. In view of our planned full scale (we are planning 6 independent tanks combined with 6 ship-berths using a novel approach with minimal environmental and visual impact), we are also willing to constructively accommodate any alternative gas importers and still ensure Third Party access in line with current DG Energy regulations and practices. TES welcomes participation from other parties on the condition that it accelerates the project and does not jeopardize the long-term clean and green energy ambitions that are core to the TES DNA. TES also believes that managing the current crisis should be done in such a way that long-term climate targets will and do not need to be compromised. The TES-Wilhelmshaven project is a unique project that can exactly do this”. said Paul van Poecke, Founder and Managing Director at TES.
Paul van Poecke continues: “The TES-Wilhelmshaven project is unique in its ability to achieve Germany’s and Europe’s plans to decarbonise in a sustainable way at an industrial scale whilst carefully and prudently navigating the current energy-crisis. We want to boldly drive forward energy transition with the aim of making Germany’s energy supply CO2-neutral. This will be achieved by developing Wilhelmshaven as a green energy hub. The latest developments do not interfere with the energy targets to be met by 2045. Already Bundeskanzler Scholz mentioned how Germany sees to support the development of an import terminal in Wilhelmshaven with hydrogen potential. TES believes that its fully sustainable Wilhelmshaven-project deserves at least the same if not stronger support compared to alternative traditional LNG-terminal initiatives considering the concurrent climate-crisis”.
“The primary objective of the European Union’s decarbonisation policy is to achieve the fastest possible reduction of CO2 emissions at the lowest possible cost,” Otto Waterlander, Chief Commercial Officer at TES, said. “The current rapid growth of renewable energy must continue. But it will be impossible to replace all molecules with electrons. With only 28% of the EU’s Primary Energy Consumption of 17,407 TWh coming from electrons, we must focus on the other 72% to achieve our net-zero ambitions. Green hydrogen imported by TES will significantly accelerate the energy transition in Germany and help the mobility, industry and power sectors achieve their decarbonization targets and solve the energy storage problem. It will make an immediate impact on CO2 emissions and eliminate customers’ exposure to significant CO2 costs. Our Wilhelmshaven project will account for 10% of the total annual primary energy demand of Germany by 2045, approximately the annual energy consumption of 43 million households in the country.”
TES Green hydrogen will be generated largely from solar, wind, and hydropower in nations with ample renewable energy sources, followed by the addition of CO2 to create green CH4, which will be used as the ‘energy carrier.’ This will then be delivered to Wilhelmshaven aboard a fleet of specially constructed ships. At Wilhelmshaven, green CH4 can be transformed back to green hydrogen, with the resulting CO2 caught and returned to the producing countries via ship in a continuous closed-loop system. This ensures that CO2 never exits the cycle, avoiding GHG emissions.
In the initial phase of 25 TWh per year of green gas import, Wilhelmshaven can manufacture and import more than half a million tonnes of hydrogen. This will eventually increase to 250 TWh per year and more than 5 million tonnes of hydrogen. This equates to one-tenth of Germany’s annual primary energy demand. Due to the project’s energy output, a critical milestone in Germany’s and Europe’s hydrogen and climate protection strategies will be attained.
