Efforts are moving forward to build the world´s first large-scale commercial e-Methanol production facility to be located in southern Denmark.
Danish developer and operator of green energy projects, European Energy, is developing the first large-scale commercial e-Methanol production facility with the hydrogen being provided by a 50 mega-watt electrolyzer plant that the company has now ordered from Siemens Energy.
The plant will be built in Kassø, located in southern Denmark, near the German border. Through the nearby 300 MW solar park at Kassø, also developed by European Energy, the project will have access to the low-cost renewable electricity needed to produce cost-effective e-Fuel.
This is a crucial moment in the green transition as we move forward with the decarbonization of hard-to-abate sectors such as the shipping industry, and we trust that Siemens Energy’s outstanding know-how of electrolyzers will become a strong foundation to expand our business of delivering sustainable fuels to the world
said Knud Erik Andersen, CEO of European Energy.
European Energy expects e-Methanol to become a critical piece in meeting the IMO’s goals for the decarbonization of the shipping industry. The company notes that global shipping consumes around 3,050 terawatt hours (TWh) of the worldwide final energy consumption.
What is more, last summer, Maersk announced it would partner with REintegrate, a subsidiary of the Danish renewable energy company European Energy, working closely on the development of the facility.
The company highlighted that REintegrate had been pursuing the production of green e-methanol in its test laboratory in Aalborg. They said that plans call for the new facility to produce the approximately 10,000 tons of e-Methanol that Maersk’s first vessel will require annually while in service.
