Renantis Blue Energy can produce hydrogen to "power the former Ilva" Floating wind capacity installed in Italy of 5.5 Gw by 2032. Excess energy can be used to produce green hydrogen through electrolysis of water.
The latter "can therefore" be stored and used when renewable energy is not available, such as during winter periods or when plants are shut down. It will allow a saving of Co2 equal to 11 million tons per year, with a production of green hydrogen of 400 thousand tons, sufficient to power millions of cars, 30/40 thousand buses or to cover almost an annual production of a steelworks like the former Ilva. "Without offshore wind, the EU objectives on green hydrogen, equal to 6 Gw of electrolysers by the year and 40 Gw by 2030, would be further away and much more difficult to achieve," says general director KseniaBalanda at an Il Sole 24 conference on green hydrogen on Thursday in Rome, Italy.