The Anonymous Widower

Centrica And European Energy Sign Agreement On Måde Green Hydrogen Facility

The title of this post, is the same as that of this press release from Centrica.

This is the sub-heading.

Centrica Energy and European Energy have signed a balancing and optimisation agreement for the Måde green hydrogen facility located at Port Esbjerg. Under the agreement, Centrica Energy will manage power production from co-located wind turbines, designating excess power production to green hydrogen production.

These two  introductory paragraphs give more details.

Powering the 12MW green hydrogen facility are two wind turbines, part of the Måde Wind Turbine Test Center, developed by European Energy with a total installed capacity of 16MW. The turbines will provide renewable electricity, which is used to produce green hydrogen through electrolysis with demineralised water.

Expected to produce approximately 1,500 tonnes of green hydrogen every year, European Energy has secured an agreement with Port Esbjerg and a world-class industrial gases company for the offtake from the facility. As the production of hydrogen is a heat-intensive process, the excess heat from production will be fed into the local district heating network, demonstrating sector coupling across the electricity, fuel, and heating domains.

These are my thoughts,

Hydrogen Production

The hydrogen production uses a standard electrolysis method, but excess heat will be fed into the local district heating network.

AquaVentus And Denmark

I introduced AquaVentus in this post called AquaVentus.

This video shows the structure of AquaVentus.

I clipped this map from the video.

Note.

1. The thick white line running North-West/South-East is the spine of AquaVentus, that delivers hydrogen to Germany.
2. There is a link to Esbjerg in Denmark.
3. There appears to be an undeveloped link to Norway.
4. There appears to be an undeveloped  link to Peterhead in Scotland.
5. There appears to be a link to just North of the Humber in England.
6. Just North of the Humber are the two massive gas storage sites of Aldbrough owned by SSE and Brough owned by Centrica.
7. There appear to be small ships sailing up and down the East Coast of the UK. Are these small coastal tankers, that are distributing the hydrogen to where it is needed?

In the last century, the oil industry, built a substantial oil and gas network in the North Sea.

It appears now the Germans are leading the building of a substantial hydrogen network in the North Sea, that will bring the hydrogen they need to their country.

I also suspect that any spare hydrogen produced in Esbjerg can be added to the AquaVentus network.

• Hydrogen could be sent to Brough and Aldbrough in the UK for storage.
• Hydrogen could be sent to any country in the network that needs it.

Countries will pay for the hydrogen they use.

Optimising AquaVentus

AquaVentus is a complex network.

• Hydrogen could be produced offshore in British, Danish, Dutch, English, German, Norwegian, Orcadian, Scottish and Shetland waters.
• Hydrogen could be sent to Brough and Aldbrough in the UK for storage.
• Hydrogen can be sent to Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Norway, The Netherlands and the UK.

A company like Centrica has the expertise and the software to control the various hydrogen flows to the best advantage of hydrogen producers and users.

October 28, 2024 - Posted by AnonW | Energy, Hydrogen | AquaVentus, Centrica, Denmark, Esbjerg, European Energy, Global Warming/Zero-Carbon, Green Hydrogen, Måde Green Hydrogen Facility, The Netherlands, Wind Power