North-C-Methanol is the first large-scale demo plant to be included in the North-CCU-Hub program, which aims to achieve a total annual CO2 emission reduction of 1 million tons at North Sea Port. The projects will see the construction of two large-scale demo plants and supporting infrastructure on the port’s Rodenhuize peninsula. The first plant, a 65-megawatt electrolyzer, will be erected on the local ENGIE site. This hydrogen plant will convert water into green hydrogen and oxygen via wind energy. What’s more, the plant’s electrolysis capacity will be no less than 6 times greater than that of the largest system currently operating worldwide.
The second installation, a Proman methanol plant on the Rodenhuize peninsula, will use this green hydrogen to convert the CO2 emissions captured by major local industrial players such as ArcelorMittal, Alco Bio Fuel and Yara into green methanol. The local chemical and renewable fuel industry, to which Cargill belongs, uses the methanol in turn as a green raw material or as a green fuel for ships and trains.