Siemens Energy and Porsche start operating the world's first petroleum-free gasoline plant

Siemens Energy, in partnership with Porsche and HIF Global, started production of the first synthetic gasoline plant. The unit's objective is to produce gasoline without oil using electricity.

A Siemens Energy announced this Tuesday (20) the start of operations of the first unit totally dedicated to the production of synthetic gasoline and carbon neutral in the world. The Haru Oni ​​plant is located near the city of Punta Arenas, in southern Chile, and combines wind power, CO2 and water to produce e-methanol and petroleum-free gasoline using electricity.

Siemens Energy unit will have capacity for 130 liters of synthetic gasoline

The unit is the result of a partnership between Siemens Energy, Porsche, HIF Global and other companies, for the production of so-called synthetic fuels.

According to Anne-Laure de Chammard, member of the Board of Directors of Siemens Energy, the Haru Oni ​​project plans to demonstrate the viability of e-fuels, both in scale and in price, to offer clean energy to sectors that are extremely dependent on fossil fuels. In addition, it aims to contribute to the development of climate-friendly solutions in other applications.

The expectation is that, still in 2023, the Siemens Energy's petroleum-free gasoline system produce 130 liters of synthetic fuel per year. After the pilot phase, the first scaling will make the unit capable of generating 55 million liters per year by the middle of the decade and, about two years after that, the expectation is that the production capacity will be increased to 550 million liters per year .

Strong winds in the region offer more than 6 hours of maximum charge

The unit is expected to be completed in March next year, and plans to harness the potential for sustainable energy in Chile's southern Patagonia region to boost the hydrogen market, with a focus on demand in Europe.

According to the companies, the strong winds at the site provide more than 6 hours of maximum operating load for the generation of clean energy, about three times the amount available in Europe. A wind power is stored in chargers as liquid energy using the Power-to-X process.

The liquids produced are easy to be transported from regions rich in clean energy generation to places in need of energy. The initiative to produce synthetic gasoline has the support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection. In 2020, Haru Oni ​​was the first hydrogen project to be funded by the German government's H2 strategy.

The project is also the first to apply the Clean Energy Certificate solution, created by the company TUV Sud, which works with technical tests, and the German Energy Agency (DENA), in partnership with Siemens Energy. The certificate guarantees that petroleum-free gasoline generated at the unit can be called green.

Porsche makes millionaire investment and bets on synthetic gasoline

The multinational Porsche announced in April this year that it will make a new investment of around US$ 75 million in the company HIF Global LLC, a holding company that works with renewable projects and in the direct production of synthetic gasoline capable of replacing fossil fuels.

Through this action, Porsche, which is based in Germany, will buy a long-term stake in the company HIF Global LLC, based in Chile, to leverage the production of synthetic gasoline this year at a commercial level.

The multinational plans to use, in principle, synthetic gasoline in competition vehicles, that is, in racing cars. However, in the future, synthetic fuel EFuel it must be present in regular cars, in factories and inside Porsche Experience Centers.

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