TÜV Rheinland plans to cooperate in the development of green power and green hydrogen projects

China Petrochemical News Network, according to Ansense London, June 1, German utility company Rheinland Group (RWE) plans to cooperate with chemical company BASF to develop a 2 gigawatt offshore wind power project, which will be a subsidiary of BASF from 2030 The Ludwigshafen chemical production base provides green power.

The project includes a 300 MW electrolyzer for the production of green hydrogen.

Rheinland Group stated: “In addition to supplying the green hydrogen produced by the electrolyzer to BASF’s Ludwigshafen chemical production base, it can also be supplied to other industrial customers, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by more than 1 million tons per year for these industrial customers.

A Rheinland Group spokesperson said: "In order to be successful, we hope to start the construction of the project as soon as possible.

The project envisages annual reduction of approximately 3.

Zhang Chunxiao excerpted and translated from ICIS

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RWE to develop 2GW wind and 300MW electrolyser project for Ludwigshafen chemical site

German utility RWE plans to work with chemicals company BASF to develop a 2GW offshore wind project that will provide the Ludwigshafen chemical site with green electricity from 2030.

The project includes a 300MW electrolyser for the production of green hydrogen.

　　"The green hydrogen could be used by other industrial customers as well, which would save more than one million tonnes of CO2 each year," RWE said.

　　"For this to succeed, we would like to start as soon as possible," a spokesperson from RWE said.

　　The call for tenders, development of the wind farm, grid connection and construction process would take at least a total of seven years, the spokesperson continued.

　　The project idea could result in the avoidance of around 3.