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Siemens Energy closed an agreement for the production of green hydrogen in Bahia. The venture will begin its first stage in 2025 and will have a production capacity of 20 GW.
Siemens Energy and Fifth Energy signed this week a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the development of a green hydrogen project in Bahia with large-scale generation. The feasibility study estimates the annual production of 1 million tons of H2V. This is the biggest project ever announced in the world. The companies are working together to ensure that the first stage takes place in 2025.
Projects can generate 20 GW of installed capacity
The green hydrogen production provides for the installation of an electrolyser plant at the Camaçari Petrochemical Complex, in Bahia, the largest integrated industrial complex in the southern hemisphere. The undertaking by Siemens Energy and Quinto Energy will also have a Technology Operations Center, also in Camaçari.
The business model plans to export the fuel produced to Europe. For this, the hydrogen will be transformed into ammonia in the liquid state. In this sense, a storage unit is planned at the Port of Aratu, in Candeias, also in Bahia, from where 5,3 million tons of green ammonia should be exported per year. There is even a formalized partnership with the port administrator, Companhia das Docas do Estado da Bahia (Codeba), to carry out the feasibility study.
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The entire project is being developed by Quinto Energy, using Siemens Energy's technology and software expertise as a basis. You e fuels will be generated through electricity produced by five hybrid complexes, such as wind and solar parks), from Quinto Energy in the North and Southwest of Bahia.
Together, these megaprojects have 20 GW of installed capacity and can generate 65 TWh of electricity per year, equivalent to 11,7% of the electricity consumed per year in all of Germany.
Quinto Energy and Siemens Energy comment on the new partnership
According to the CEO of Fifth Energy, Rafael Cavalcanti, the green hydrogen project has all the necessary elements to meet the challenge of energy transition. According to the executive, first because the company has a large-scale production. It also has security in the export process and, finally, the guarantee of low cost of fuel generation.
The most advanced negotiations for the export of H2V are with Germany, a country that is positioning itself at the forefront when it comes to the green hydrogen economy. Fuel, generated from clean energy sources, is the key to the energy transition that will help save the world from global warming.
Director of New Business Siemens Energy, Andreas Eisfelder, says that this partnership between Quinto and Siemens is strategic for the energy business relationship between Brazil and Germany. The project will help to strengthen the Brazil as a world power in the production of green hydrogen and will propel Germany forward in its quest for an energy transition. The executive points out that Siemens Energy has a mature project, with a chance of executing it in the very near future.
Brazil will receive the largest Green Hydrogen plant in the world
Unigel, one of the largest chemical industries in Latin America and leader in sectors such as ammonia and fertilizers, announced an investment of US$ 120 million, equivalent to R$ 660 million, in the construction of the first Brazilian green hydrogen plant.
The intent is that the unit green hydrogen in the country is the largest in the world. In this way, the company will invest in the production of ammonia and green hydrogen, which are gaining prominence in the world race in the decarbonization process.
