Haldor Topsoe is working to increase electrolyser manufacturing to boost renewable hydrogen production in the EU, said the company.
This is part of a joint declaration signed by the European Commission, Hydrogen Europe and 20 European companies to reach at least 17.5GW of electrolyser capacity in the EU by 2025. The declaration supports the EU’s new target to double the previous target of 10m tonnes/year of domestic renewable hydrogen production, plus an additional 10m tonnes/year of hydrogen imports.
As part of this, industry bodies committed to have 10 times the combined annual electrolyser manufacturing capacity in the EU by 2025 compared with today and legislators pledged to ensure supporting regulatory framework and funding. “If the EU wants to be independent of Russian gas – we need to produce 10 million tons of renewable hydrogen in the EU every year,” said Topsoe CEO Roeland Baan.
Under the joint declaration, manufacturers would seek to further increase capacity by 2030 in line with projected demand for renewable hydrogen. The pillars of the declaration would include a regulatory framework, funding and integrating supply chains to expand R&D activities to ensure availability of necessary components and materials in a timely and affordable manner.
Through the declaration, sufficient permitting rules for capacity would be provided and there would be revisions to the Renewable Energy Directive and Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation Proposal.
As MRC reported earlier, in February 2021, Haldor Topsoe and Acron Group signed a MoU with the purpose of jointly working within green technologies area. The MoU includes initiatives within joint development of technologies aimed to reduce GHG emissions (СО2 and N2O) at the existing production sites of Acron Group and development of promising projects for new products with minimum environmental impact. Acron Engineering, a Russian engineering research center, which is a part of Acron Group, will be engaged in the work.
We remind that in October 2021, Dow (Midland, Michigan), the world's petrochemical major, and Haldor Topsoe partnered to promote the circular economy. About 300 million tons of plastic waste is produced every year on a global scale. The partnership between Dow and Topsoe marks a new initiative to efficiently convert waste plastics to circular plastics, keeping them out of the environment and responsibly reclaiming their value.
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