Portugal – Keme Energy to install green hydrogen plant in Sines with a 5.2 million euros investment.
Keme Energy, a Portuguese company led by Miguel Matias, will install a green hydrogen production plant in ZILS – Sines Industrial and Logistics Zone, in an investment of 5.2 million euros, the company said in a statement.
Keme indicates that it has aranded a portion of 4.8 hectares in ZILS for the installation of a green hydrogen production plant by electrochemical photo electrolysis, compression and storage in PED bottles.
The unit will be in an old sandand and will have a capacity of 2.52 MegaWatts (MW), “an estimated 160 tons of green hydrogen per year”.
The project, the document details, “will be implemented in two phases”: the first, “approved by portugal’s national POSEUR 2020 programme, will have a total capacity of 1.26 MW, with an estimated annual production of 80 tons of hydrogen for use in industry and for electricity production, in order to supply a renewable energy community to be created in Sines, through a fuel stack; the second phase, already in the project phase, has an application to the PRR Environmental Fund, and will double the installed capacity.”
Keme Energy, “is a Portuguese company specialized in the implementation of projects of renewable energy self-consumption, renewable energy generation (production systems for sale to the grid and production systems for distribution in the case of hydrogen), energy efficiency and support for the development of offshore renewable energy technology”.
Miguel Matias, CEO of Keme Energy, quoted in the statement.
The implementation of this project in ZILS means being close to an international logistics platform with the capacity to receive relevant actors from the maritime port, industrial and logistics sectors.
“These actors could benefit from the infrastructure to be created as customers, promoting the introduction of hydrogen in the short-term sectors of navigation, industry and freight transport by land.”
Filipe Costa, CEO of aicep Global Parques – Management of Business Areas and Services, S.A.
The production of green hydrogen in the Sines Port, Logistics and Industrial Complex is essential for the environmental and economic sustainability of the national energy, refiner, petrochemical and chemical hub.
“The availability of hydrogen will allow Sines to attract more energy-intensive activities, such as the chemical and metallurgical industries, or telecommunications services.” Thanks for staying up to date with Hydrogen Central.
Portuguese Keme Energy will install green hydrogen plant in Sines, February 7, 2022
