Green Hydrogen11 Dec 2021 15:27
Ring some bells - H4 Energy areas
'Enel Russia, which is active in Russia’s wind power market, is currently constructing a 201 MW windfarm on the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast that is expected to be completed in December 2021. Together with Rusnano, Russia’s large innovation development institution, Enel Russia has announced plans to produce 12,000 tons of green hydrogen annually at this windfarm for export to the EU. However, there is a great deal of uncertainty about this pilot project, from the cost of such hydrogen to the available transportation routes (as there are no gas pipelines in Murmansk Oblast).'
Nuclear-based hydrogen is an interesting proposition for Rosatom, which already produces some 4,200 tons of it annually. It would allow Rosatom to increase the load factor of its nuclear generation assets, some of which are operating below capacity (e.g. the Kola Nuclear Power Plant in Murmansk Oblast). Importantly, however, Rosatom maintains technological neutrality: its R&D programme encompasses a wide spectrum of hydrogen production methods, including electrolysis, SMR with CCS, and high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs). As a major player in the Russian wind market, with a 360 MW portfolio of completed projects and much more in the pipeline, Rosatom is also open to exploring green hydrogen production.
'Currently, Rosatom is conducting feasibility studies on two hydrogen projects on the far eastern island of Sakhalin, which is expected to become the first hydrogen cluster in Russia. The first project, on the use of hydrogen in rail transport, is being implemented in cooperation with Russian Railways (RZD), Transmashholding (a machine-building holding) and the Sakhalin Oblast regional government. Seven suburban hydrogen trains are planned to be launched by 2025 and 13 more by 2030. Rosatom’s role in the project is to produce hydrogen and create hydrogen fuelling infrastructure on the island. The second project aims to export low-carbon hydrogen to Japan. In September 2019, Rusatom Overseas, a subsidiary of Rosatom, signed a cooperation agreement with Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to conduct a feasibility study on exporting liquefied hydrogen from Russia to Japan. The results of the study should be available by summer 2021. Building on this project, in April 2021, Rosatom signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with France’s Air Liquide (a leading industrial gases company) and the Sakhalin regional government on conducting a feasibility study on large-scale blue hydrogen production (30,000-100,000 tons annually). If implemented, this would become Russia’s largest low-carbon hydrogen production project.'
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