Kassø Power-to-X produces first batch of green hydrogen

In Denmark, Fuel Cells Works reports Kassø Power-to-X has succeeded in producing green hydrogen in its first step to producing e-methanol at its commercial-scale facility. The facility produces hydrogen through the electrolysis of purified water. Green hydrogen will then be synthesized with biogenic CO2 to produce e-methanol using electricity from the facility’s own solar park. The fuel is intended for shipping fuel or for green chemistry.

PtX plant in Kassø is the world´s first large-scale commercial e-Methanol production facility with the hydrogen being provided by a 50 mega-watt (MW) electrolyzer plant by Siemens Energy. This will be constructed at Kassø, which is west of Aabenraa in southern Denmark and close to the German border. The project will have access to the low cost renewable electricity required to make cost-effective e-Fuel through the nearby 300 MW solar park of Kassø, created by European Energy. End users of the e-Methanol will be the shipping company Maersk and the fuel retailer Circle K among others.