Mundus Nordic Green News – 10 November, 2020

Ørsted partners with BP on German hydrogen project

Ørsted has joined forces with BP on a hydrogen project that will consist of a 50 MW electrolysis plant at BP's Lingen refinery in northwestern Germany. The plant, which is expected to be put into operation in 2024, will be able to produce almost 9000 tonnes of green hydrogen per year, reducing the refinery's consumption of grey hydrogen by 20%. The project has a long-term ambition to build a capacity of more than 500 MW of renewable hydrogen at Lingen. It is expected that the electrolysis plant will be supplied with electricity from one of Ørsted's offshore wind farms in the North Sea. Ørsted and BP have jointly applied for funding for the project from the EU Innovation Fund.

 

Dramatic increase in Swedish EV charging stations required 

Nearly half of all cars in Sweden should be electrical vehicles in ten years. Should that occur, the number of charging stations needs to be increased from 10,300 to 260,000 in 2030, according a report from the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. According to the Chamber of Commerce's press release, there could be around 2.6 million rechargeable cars in 2030, corresponding to 50% of all passenger cars on Swedish roads. "So far this year, the number of newly registered rechargeable cars has more than doubled compared to 2019".

 

Norwegian battery recycling pilot receives Enova support

In June, Norway’s Hydro and Sweden’s Northvolt announced that they were establishing a JV company, Hydro Volt to build a pilot plant for recycling materials from used electric car batteries. The plant, planned to be built in Fredrikstad, will be one of the most technologically advanced recycling plants in the world. It will be highly-automated, crushing and sorting batteries, with the capacity to process more than 8,000 tonnes of batteries each year. The plant is expected to cost about NOK 120 million. Today, Hydro issued a press release to say that the pilot will receive NOK 43.5 million in support from Enova, a Norwegian state-owned vehicle which promotes of environmentally friendly production and consumption of energy. 

 

Norway to tender for climate-friendly ferries

Norway’s Minister of Transport, Knut Arild Hareide announced new requirements for climate-friendly technology on all national road ferry connections in northern Norway. The tender will require zero-emission technology on the main ferries. The company that wins the contract will have the opportunity to use advanced, sustainable biofuels.

 

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