Source:gasworld.com
Air Products has teamed up with global energy company AES Corporation to build a $4bn green hydrogen production plant in Wilbarger County, Texas, which they say will be the largest green hydrogen facility in the US.
Announced today (8th Dec), the “mega-scale” renewable power-to-hydrogen project will produce 200 metric tonnes of green hydrogen a day, with 1.4GW of wind and solar power generation and an electrolyser.
Air Products and AES will equally own the renewable energy and electrolyser assets, with Air Products serving as the exclusive off-taker and marketer of the produced hydrogen under a 30-year contract.
The plant will be operational in 2027 and will serve both mobility and industrial markets.
Seifi Ghasemi, Chairman, President and CEO of Air Products, said, “We have been working on the development of this project with AES for many years and it will be competitive on a world-scale while bringing significant tax, job and energy security benefits to Texas.”
It is hoped the project will generate approximately $500m in tax benefits to the state over the course of the project’s lifetime and create many jobs for the state, included 115 permanent operations roles.
Andrés Gluski, President and CEO of AES, said the company wants to build more than 1GW of new solar and wind facilities to provide zero carbon energy for electrolysis and related production facilities.
Gluski added, “AES believes that green hydrogen has a key role to play in decarbonising transportation and accelerating the future of energy.”
