The Eneco Diamond Hydrogen joint venture will produce green hydrogen for supply to industrial customers that want to make their processes and products more sustainable.
“The production of green hydrogen is essential for a successful energy transition,” said As Tempelman, chief executive of Eneco. “If direct electrification proves impossible, green hydrogen as a raw material or fuel is a good sustainable alternative.”
The company said the first use of the hydrogen would be for industries that currently produce hydrogen from fossil natural gas for direct use in their processes.
At a later stage, hydrogen can also replace natural gas as a fuel for use in the industry and in electricity generation, where it replaces fossil gas in flexible electricity production.
The Eneco Electrolyser is being developed next to the Enecogen power station at Europoort. The company said that would enable the new facility to benefit from sharing certain infrastructure with the power station.
The hydrogen facility will ultimately have a capacity of 800MW and produce up to 80kt of hydrogen per year, depending on the amount of green energy available and the demand for green hydrogen from industry.
By submitting the permit application now, Eneco expects to be able to begin construction in 2026 and schedule commissioning in 2029.
Making the application, Eneco highlighted Dutch and European targets for green hydrogen production. The Netherlands wants to have 4GW of green hydrogen production capacity by 2030.
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