Australia To Build Renewable Hydrogen Plant
France-based global energy and services group Engie SA will build a green hydrogen plant in Western Australia to feed an ammonia facility owned by Norway’s Yara International. The project will use energy from solar panels and a small battery energy storage system at Yara’s site to power a 10-MW electrolyzer and make 705 tons (640 tonnes) of hydrogen per year.
Known as Project Yuri, the plant will be built on the existing Yara Pilbara lease and adjacent to the company’s world-scale anhydrous ammonia production facility. Yuri Operations Pty Ltd will build the renewable hydrogen facility and supply the green hydrogen to Yara Clean Ammonia. The construction is scheduled to commence later this month (October 2022). The renewable hydrogen production is scheduled to commence and be supplied to the ammonia plant in 2024.
A consortium of Technip Energies and Monford Group has been awarded the engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning contract for the renewable hydrogen plant.
