RE: CCS in Italy28 May 2021 08:04
Lorenzo’s article thanks to google translate.
Green hydrogen produced in the middle of the sea: this is the Saipem project for Ravenna
Wind power plant and a floating carpet of solar panels cost one billion and could reuse decommissioned platforms on empty fields
The energy transition, green hydrogen, farewell to fossil fuels are not smoky theories. In the sea off Ravenna, with the Agnes project worth one billion euros, Saipem wants to build a floating solar power plant - a kind of immense shiny carpet of photovoltaic panels placed on the water - and raise the wind fans; the electricity produced by these renewable sources could go to electrolysis plants mounted on the offshore platforms that various companies will have to dispose of, starting with Eni, and the hydrogen thus produced - traveling in the pipes that today carry the methane from the fields up earth - could be used to power Ravenna buses and future hydrogen cars. This is the integrated hydrogen pole project with which Saipem completes the energy mosaic that could transform the Adriatic between Venice and Romagna, into a unique center in the Mediterranean for new forms of energy.
An energy pole on the sea
Here are other pieces that make up the energy mosaic: the Po Valley company has obtained the environmental green light to build a platform above the Teodorico methane field off the coast of Comacchio and the Po delta; Eni is studying a project to capture carbon dioxide in order to be able to reinject it underground in those now exploited and empty fields that had sealed the methane for millennia; a large wind farm is being studied off the coast of Rimini.
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The floor to Mario Marchionna, Saipem's head of innovation and technology: "Agnes brings together at least two of the pillars of Saipem's strategy for the energy transition, that is, it integrates offshore renewable energy sources with hydrogen technologies".
The port of Ravenna, where the Agnes project will have part of the plants
Integrating wind and sun
The Adriatic is not windy like the North Sea but the new wind technologies that are being developed in Asia are able to extract enough energy, and therefore value, from the Adriatic breeze to make the project "bankable". Poor visibility from the flat Ravenna coast, about twenty kilometers away.
Added to this is the floating solar. It is not a new technology, but it is generally adopted in closed hydroelectric reservoirs, sheltered from the waves of the open sea. In this case, the project is extended, 100 megawatts, and the technological partner Equinor is preparing with Saipem and other consortium partners to set up a half-megawatt experimental plant in the North Sea.
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