Denmark launches 1.3 GW offshore wind hydrogen project
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Danish company Ørsted is the world’s largest offshore wind energy company. It is currently working together with five Danish multinational companies – Copenhagen Airport, shipping company Maersk, logistics group DSV, ferry company DFDS, and airline SAS – to develop a new large-scale project for green hydrogen, which will be used as fuel for ships, trucks, buses, and airplanes. This initiative aims to help reduce carbon emissions in the transportation sector and contribute to achieving the goals set out in the Paris Agreement. This project utilizes offshore wind turbines at Rønne Banke near Bornholm in the Baltic Sea to produce hydrogen in the Greater Copenhagen area, and it is one of the largest projects of its kind in the world. The first phase of the project, which includes a 10-megawatt electrolyzer for producing green hydrogen, is expected to come online by 2023 at the earliest.
By 2027, the scale of this wind-powered hydrogen production project will expand to 250 megawatts, and by 2030 it will reach 1.3 gigawatts. This means that by 2030, the project could replace 30% of the fossil fuels used at Copenhagen Airport and reduce annual carbon emissions by 850,000 tons.
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