Air Liquide, Siemens Energy to build 30-MW electrolyser in Germany

French industrial gases supplier Air Liquide (EPA:AI) last week announced plans for a 30-MW green hydrogen plant in Oberhausen, Germany.

The company intends to build a proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyser that will produce hydrogen from water and renewable electricity. The project will have an initial capacity of 20 MW, which is expected to be online by early 2023, producing renewable hydrogen and renewable oxygen. The capacity is intended to be increased to 30 MW in a second phase.

The project is the first as part of an electrolyser partnership between Air Liquide and Germany’s Siemens Energy AG (ETR:ENR), unveiled earlier this year. It is supported by funding from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy.

The electrolyser will supply renewable hydrogen to local industries and mobility using Air Liquide’s existing pipeline infrastructure.

“Leveraging on Air Liquide’s existing hydrogen pipeline network, the renewable hydrogen produced will accelerate the decarbonization of the Rhine-Ruhr industrial basin and it will foster clean mobility in a densely populated region,” said Air Liquide executive vice president Francois Jackow.

Air Liquide targets 3 GW electrolysis capacity by 2030.

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