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Shell - Holland Hydrogen 1 (NL44)
Shell, together with more than 150 contractors and vendors, is building Europe's largest renewable hydrogen plant today. Powered by wind coming from the offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust Noord, the 200-megawatts HH1 plant will be ready to produce in the second half of this decade.
The project provides an answer to the need for cleaner energy in heavy-duty cargo and industries, sectors that have limited options for other renewable solutions. Initially the renewable hydrogen will replace grey hydrogen as a feedstock at Shell Chemicals and Energy Park Rotterdam in Pernis. The annually produced 24.8 kilotons of renewable hydrogen represents approximately 5% of the total annual use of hydrogen in the Port of Rotterdam. Later, the hydrogen will be delivered to heavy-duty trucks once hydrogen trucks are more widely available and a hydrogen filling network is in place. Embedded in the landscape of the Tweede Maasvlakte plains, the aim of the Holland Hydrogen 1 project is to have as little impact on the environment as possible. Therefore, the design of HH1 incorporates circular materials to demonstrate a nature-inclusive way of construction.
The Holland Hydrogen 1 (HH1) factory is situated, at the Tweede Maasvlakte near Rotterdam, on land reclaimed from the sea. Once operational in the second half of this decade, it will produce up to 60 tons of renewable hydrogen per day. This is the equivalent of what 2,300 hydrogen trucks will need and is powered by offshore wind produced at the North Sea. The electricity for the Holland Hydrogen 1 plant comes from the offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust Noord (HKN). This wind farm is operated by CrossWind, a joint venture of Shell and Eneco, and comprises 69 wind turbines (759 MW installed capacity) located about 18.5 kilometres (11 miles) off the coast of Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands.
