{"id":3986,"date":"2020-12-18T06:45:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T06:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2021-03-25T06:47:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T06:47:18","slug":"why-offshore-wind-and-energy-giants-are-chasing-off-grid-green-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/2020\/12\/18\/why-offshore-wind-and-energy-giants-are-chasing-off-grid-green-hydrogen\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Offshore Wind and Energy Giants Are Chasing Off-Grid Green Hydrogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wh1514474.ispot.cc\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Windpower-to-Hydrogen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3988\" src=\"https:\/\/wh1514474.ispot.cc\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Windpower-to-Hydrogen-640x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Windpower-to-Hydrogen-640x320.jpg 640w, https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Windpower-to-Hydrogen-1280x640.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Windpower-to-Hydrogen-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Windpower-to-Hydrogen-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Windpower-to-Hydrogen-320x160.jpg 320w, https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Windpower-to-Hydrogen.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RWE, Siemens and Shell are among those exploring offshore hydrogen production to decouple ocean wind from Europe\u2019s crowded grid.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union wants to build 40 gigawatts of green hydrogen electrolyzers by 2030\u00a0and estimates that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/?qid=1594897267722&amp;uri=CELEX:52020DC0301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">80 to\u00a0120 gigawatts<\/a>\u00a0of solar and wind will be needed to power them.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a new headache for Europe\u2019s grid operators. Decarbonization is expected to double the demand for electricity as transport and heat are also electrified.<\/p>\n<p>Taking hydrogen production off the power grid could be a win-win solution to these problems. That\u2019s the idea behind plans for what&#8217;s termed &#8220;islanded&#8221; hydrogen, which would pair electrolyzers with offshore wind farms and send hydrogen molecules, rather than electrons, back to shore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greentechmedia.com\/articles\/read\/why-offshore-wind-and-energy-giants-are-chasing-off-grid-green-hydrogen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ JOHN PARNELL&#8217;S FULL ARTICLE HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RWE, Siemens and Shell are among those exploring offshore hydrogen production to decouple ocean wind from Europe\u2019s crowded grid. The European Union wants to build 40 gigawatts of green hydrogen electrolyzers by 2030\u00a0and estimates that\u00a080 to\u00a0120 gigawatts\u00a0of solar and wind will be needed to power them. That\u2019s a new headache for Europe\u2019s grid operators. Decarbonization&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[70,111],"class_list":["post-3986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hydrogen","tag-windpower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}