The plants will use renewable energy sources to generate electrical power that will be used to produce hydrogen with mtu electrolysers.
According to Rolls-Royce, the green hydrogen can be used as fuel for fuel cells and hydrogen engines, to produce industrial feedstock and to produce sustainable e-fuels for marine, aviation, agriculture, mining and data centre power.
“With this project, we are actively working to reduce greenhouse gases in industry. We are convinced that with our new sustainable mtu technologies and through the cooperation with SOWITEC, we can successfully drive the expansion of Power-to-X plants,” said Andreas Görtz, president of the Sustainable Power Solutions business division at Rolls-Royce Power Systems.
Rolls-Royce solutions for for the production and use of sustainable fuels based on green hydrogen include mtu electrolysers, mtu fuel cell systems and mtu hydrogen engines, plus experience with hydrogen ecosystems and in the simulation, design and optimisation of decentralised energy supply systems.
SOWITEC, based in southern Germany, has over 4.2GW of solar and wind projects installed in South America, Europe and Asia and brings experience in developing financeable turnkey renewable energy projects, from concept to implementation, including investor sourcing.
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“We have already been working on Power-to-X plants since 2017. In Rolls-Royce Power Systems, with its innovative products and global sales and service network, we see a competent partner to jointly deliver integrated green hydrogen ecosystems from a single source,” said Frank Hummel, CEO of SOWITEC Group. “We are pursuing the vision of a global energy supply based on renewable energies and providing access to clean and affordable energy for all people and are developing competitive projects accordingly.”
In 2021 Rolls-Royce announced through its ‘Net Zero at Power Systems’ sustainability program that it would realign the Power Systems product portfolio so that by 2030 sustainable fuels and new mtu technologies can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 35 per cent compared to 2019.
This near-term target is said to play an important role in the Rolls-Royce Group’s Net Zero ambition by 2050. In the interim, the company is operating an mtu fuel cell system, developing electrolysers to produce green hydrogen, and is gradually releasing its main engines for sustainable fuels such as HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oils). The company added that its mtu gas engine portfolio is currently being prepared for hydrogen as a fuel.
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