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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Enel Green Power (EGP),
the renewable energy subsidiary of Italy’s Enel Group, and Maire Tecnimont
(Rome, Italy) have agreed to work together on the development and construction
of a green hydrogen production plant in the US, according to Chemweek.
A specific location has not
been given.
EGP and NextChem, a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont, have
signed a memorandum of understanding for the project, which will produce green
hydrogen via electrolysis using renewable energy from an existing EGP solar
plant. The project is expected to be operational in 2023 and supply hydrogen to
a biorefinery, Enel says.
NextChem, Maire Tecnimont’s business dedicated
to the deployment of technologies for the energy transition, will act as a
technology and engineering partner, and the full turnkey engineering,
procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor for the project. EGP says it will
leverage NextChem’s hydrogen technology and engineering expertise to grow its
green hydrogen business in the US.
EGP is “actively scouting for
opportunities” in the green hydrogen sector in several parts of the world, both
in Europe and in the Americas, says Salvatore Bernabei, EGP’s CEO. The company
says it is evaluating opportunities to colocate electrolyzers across its
development pipeline in the US, focused on states where it has an existing
operational presence, such as Texas, Utah, and North Dakota. It is already
developing green hydrogen projects in Italy, Spain, and Chile, with plans to
grow its capacity to over 2 gigawatts by 2030, it says.
As MRC wrote
before, in early December, 2020, Enel and Eni announced they would
develop two green hydrogen pilot schemes aimed at supplying two of Eni’s
refineries in Italy, with each project expected to start operations by
2022–23.
We remind that in September 2020, Italy’s Eni proposed building
bio-refineries in Abu Dhabi, according to the energy group’s chief executive
Claudio Descalzi. The Italian oil major has been focusing on developing new
clean technologies in recent years as it steps up preparations for a
decarbonized future.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing
polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report,
Russia's estimated polyethylene (PE) consumption totalled 1,990,280 tonnes in
the first eleven months of 2020, up by 1% year on year. Only high density
polyethylene (HDPE) shipments increased. At the same time, polypropylene (PP)
shipments to the Russian market reached 1 090,900 tonnes in the first eleven
months of 2020 (calculated using the formula: production, minus exports, plus
imports, excluding producers' inventories as of 1 January, 2020). Supply of
exclusively PP random copolymer increased. |
