KH Engineering will support HyCC with the design of large-scale green hydrogen plants. The two companies recently signed the agreement for this purpose. HyCC plans to make the final investment decision for the first plants in the Netherlands this year.
'HyCC is a joint venture between Nobian and Macquarie's Green Investment Group,' says HyCC's Project Portfolio Manager Wouter Sint Nicolaas. 'Our company develops green hydrogen projects to make the industry more sustainable and to build a circular economy. With our shareholder Nobian, we have more than a hundred years of experience in the electrolysis process, something not many other market players can say. We can already take our customers to a 200-megawatt electrolysis plant in Rotterdam today.
H2-Fifty at conversion park
'We now have six projects under development,' Wouter continues, 'including one in Germany and five in the Netherlands. The latter includes two in Delfzijl, two in the North Sea Canal area near Amsterdam, and in Rotterdam we have the H2-Fifty project on Rotterdam's Maasvlakte. The so-called conversion park on the Maasvlakte will be the place to be in the Rotterdam region when it comes to bringing green electricity from wind-on-sea to land to produce green hydrogen locally. H2-Fifty is a collaboration with BP and will be a 250-megawatt plant. This will allow us to produce 20,000 to 30,000 tonnes of green hydrogen a year from renewable energy and water.'
From left to right: Willem Pronk (KH Engineering) & Stijn van Els (HyCC)
Scaling up together
'The first two concrete projects in which we will work together with KH Engineering are H2-Fifty and the H2era project in Amsterdam,' says Wouter. 'In KH Engineering, we found a party that complements us well in terms of technical knowledge. Together with them, we can scale up quickly, which is important to us. It will be a real partnership in which KH Engineering will perform very diverse work: from concept studies to front-end engineering design and supervising contractors' work. KH Engineering will also assist in drawing up HyCC's technical standards. These will specify the requirements that a green hydrogen plant of HyCC must meet, on top of the legal requirements of course. This will allow us to start using the design efficiently at other locations as well.'
Support
On choosing KH Engineering, Wouter says: 'After extensive market exploration and a tender, we chose KH Engineering because of their technical standards and their capacity to provide support throughout the entire construction process. With this, we opted for support from concept engineering to managing the execution of the project. In terms of experience and expertise, we found KH Engineering to be a good match. The cooperation has just started, so it still has to grow, but we are very confident. In my opinion, the only way to find out whether the cooperation is going well is to start with the first projects. After the final investment decisions, we want to get started quickly and start up our plants in Rotterdam and Amsterdam.'
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