The AquaVentus consortium, which is developing a 10 GW offshore wind-to-hydrogen project in Germany, has informed that another eight companies have joined the project, including the oil and gas production company Neptune Energy, Saipem, Ramboll, and Heerema Marine Contractors.
This increases the membership network of the AquaVentus initiative to 79, with a lot of big names from the offshore energy industry joining the project since the beginning of this year.Earlier this year, offshore wind developers Ørsted, Equinor, and WindMW, and the offshore construction company Boskalis got on board the massive offshore wind-to-hydrogen development, followed by new members from outside of Europe, including the Japanese utility J-Power and the Japanese-Swiss joint venture Hitachi ABB Power, and the US offshore engineering and construction services player McDermott.
The AquaVentus project revolves around green hydrogen production powered by 10 GW of offshore wind from the North Sea, and comprises numerous sub-projects along the value chain from the offshore production of hydrogen to transport to customers on the mainland.
The projects include the development of offshore wind farms with integrated hydrogen generation (AquaPrimus), a large-scale offshore hydrogen park (AquaSector), a central supply pipeline (AquaDuctus), port infrastructures (AquaPortus), a research platform (AquaCampus), and hydrogen-based maritime applications (AquaNavis).
Under the first sub-project, AquaPrimus, the consortium plans to install two 14 MW wind turbines, each with an electrolyser plant on its foundation platform. The wind turbines would be installed off the coast of Heligoland by 2025. offshoreWIND.biz - link - Adrijana Buljan - link - more like this - link
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