TotalEnergies has signed an agreement with the German developer RWE to supply 30,000 tons a year (tpy) of green hydrogen to the German Leuna refinery for 15 years, marked as the largest quantity of green hydrogen ever contracted from an electrolyzer in Germany.
TotalEnergies said on Wednesday that green hydrogen will be produced by a 300 MW electrolyzer, built and operated by RWE in Lingen, and its storage will be provided locally.
Then, it will be transported through a 600 km pipeline straight to the refinery, ultimately preventing around 300,000 tpa of CO2 emissions from the site starting in 2030.
“We are looking forward to further developing our partnership with RWE, our partner in several offshore wind projects in Germany and the Netherlands. This long-term contract for green hydrogen marks an important milestone in reducing our CO2 emissions at our Leuna refinery. It will be made possible thanks to the completion of the H2 backbone by German authorities and their efficient support to green H2 customers like our Leuna refinery,” said Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies.
For his part, Markus Krebber, Chief Executive Officer of RWE, said, “We are proud to have secured the first long-term offtake agreement for green hydrogen of this size with TotalEnergies in Germany. Six months after the investment decision for the construction of the 300-megawatt electrolysis plant in Lingen, we have acquired an important anchor customer in TotalEnergies. This shows that hydrogen works with the right incentives for customers.”
In line with its 2030 ambition to decarbonize the hydrogen used in its European refineries, TotalEnergies has contracted over 200,000 tons of various forms of green and renewable hydrogen annually for its refineries in La Mède, Grandpuits, and Normandy in France, as well as in Leuna in Germany, and its northern European refineries in Antwerp, Belgium, and Zeeland, Netherlands.
