Uniper SE has signed an settlement to ship six terawatt hours (TWh) of electrical energy over six years for the electrolyzer unit of a metal manufacturing mission by Stegra in northern Sweden.
The electrolyzer — an equipment that extracts hydrogen from splitting the water molecule utilizing electrical energy — may have a capability of 700 megawatts (MW). The clear hydrogen it should produce might be used to cut back iron ore to inexperienced sponge iron that can feed the metal unit of the under-construction 270-hectare facility within the city of Boden. German gasoline and energy utility Uniper will start energy supply 2027.
The three-plant facility will produce 2.5 million tonnes a yr of inexperienced metal within the preliminary stage, with operations deliberate to start out 2026. By 2030, the capability is predicted to develop to 5 million tons every year.
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“We’re proud to help the continued transition of the power system by being a dependable and progressive accomplice to industrial off-takers”, Uniper Sweden chair Johan Svenningsson mentioned in a joint assertion by the businesses.
Arne Österlind, head of Stegra’s power portfolio, mentioned, “The settlement with Uniper kinds the bottom for a strategic partnership with a participant which might present us with long-term entry to electrical energy for our plant in Boden, set to provide inexperienced hydrogen, inexperienced iron and inexperienced metal at scale”.
“This electrical energy supply is central to our technique and a key step in the direction of accelerating reductions of business emissions in Europe”, Österlind added.
Earlier Stegra contracted Axpo Nordic for the supply of two.25 TWh of energy over three years beginning 2027.
“Each events see this settlement as the start of an extended enterprise relationship and an necessary component of the electrical energy provide to Stegra’s plant”, mentioned a joint press launch November 26.
Based on Stegra, renamed from H2 Inexperienced Metal this yr, utilizing clear hydrogen as an alternative of coal and electrifying the ability’s steelmaking course of will end in a 95 % discount in carbon dioxide emissions.
Stockholm-based Stegra has secured a number of offtake agreements together with with Porsche AG and IKEA’s greatest retailer, Ingka Group.
“As much as 35,000 tonnes of the low-emission metal produced in Sweden are for use per yr for the sequence manufacturing of Porsche automobiles”, mentioned a joint assertion October 31, 2023. “By the use of comparability: in 2022, 220,000 tonnes of metal have been utilized in Porsche automobiles”.
In the meantime the inexperienced metal dedicated to Ingka might be used for IKEA warehouse racking. “The settlement kinds a part of Ingka Group’s ongoing motion to cut back its local weather footprint and can account for 50 % of warehouse racking bought globally”, Ingka mentioned in an announcement with Stegra September 13, 2023.
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