Despite industry-wide setbacks and recalibration, large-scale industrial hydrogen has made impressive steps to becoming a commercial reality in recent months.
From Europe to southern Africa, change is firmly underway.
Germany’s largest PEM electrolyser has just gone into operation at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site. The electrolyser has a connected load of 54MW and capacity to supply the main plant with up to one metric tonne of this substantial chemical feedstock every hour.
Based on Siemens Energy technology, the electrolyser is built into the facility’s infrastructure and will supply hydrogen into its Verbund network for distribution across its various production plants.
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