Newly started Stord Hydrogen to produce 140 tonnes of green hydrogen every year in Norway.
Newly started Stord Hydrogen can produce 140 tonnes of green hydrogen every year. The company will start production at Heiane at Stord as early as spring.
Willie Wågen, general manager of sustainable energy catapult centre.
This is an anniversary of green industrial development.
“Not only will green hydrogen be available to the market, it will also be used by our customers in the world’s first full-scale test centre for new green energy carriers, Energy House,”
Emission-free option
Together with Alltec Services, Greenstat and Hydrogen Solutions (HYDS), the catapult centre is behind the newly established company Stord Hydrogen. The premises at Heiane at Stord are already under construction in the area of the Energy House test centre.
When the production facility is completed, it will be able to produce close to 400 kg of green hydrogen every day. That’s enough to meet the fuel needs of around 800 passenger cars – every day.
Vegard Frihammer, founder and CEO of Greenstat.
The hydrogen market in Norway, and in the rest of the world, will grow enormously in the coming years.
“The fact that we are now actually starting production here in Western Norway and making hydrogen available is incredibly important to accelerate the green shift. Hydrogen can be used both as an input factor in the industry and as an emission-free fuel for cars, buses, trucks, trains or boats,”
Modular production facilities
HYDS will supply the flexible, modular production facility that will produce compressed hydrogen via electrolysis at Stord. The electrolysis technology is supplied by Danish Green Hydrogen Systems, through its Norwegian partner Liquiline. This will be their first delivery of this type of electrolysers to Norway.
Thor Henrik Hagen, GENERAL MANAGER of HYDS.
Finally, we move from word to action.
“This is the real starting point for us and for green commercial hydrogen production in Norway. Our goal is to achieve scalable hydrogen production with multiple locations. The fact that our first plant comes at a test centre working on the future of fuel for the maritime industry is positive,”
Circular economy in practice
The energy generated during the various tests in Energy House, through the Sustainable Energy catapult centre, will now be converted into hydrogen.
Magnar Aaland, CEO of Alltec Services.
Now we can actually harness the energy we create during the actual testing. Instead of it being lost, it should now be converted into hydrogen.
“This is a big step in the right direction for those of us who are working to create an advanced, technological and forward-looking test centre – built for tomorrow’s solutions,”
In addition to utilising the energy produced during tests in Energy house, renewable energy from SKL’s hydropower plant Blåfalli Vik will enter hydrogen production.
“We will make our test facilities as affordable and sustainable as possible only for our customers. This will reduce both our own and our customers’ CO2 footprint. It will also make us more attractive on the market,” says Willie Wågen.
Starting green hydrogen production in Western Norway, August 25, 2021
