Cologne, Germany
Ineos receives state finance for electrolyser study
Firm plans to build and operate 100MW electrolyser to decarbonise ammonia production at Cologne site
Chemicals firm Ineos has received €770,000 ($803,000) from the government of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia to support a feasibility study for the construction of a 100MW water electrolysis facility. The firm plans to build and operate the facility at its site in Cologne as part of its €2bn package of green hydrogen projects, announced in October last year. “The funding decision shows the significance that the state of North Rhine-Westphalia attaches to our project,” says Stephan Muller, commercial energy manager for Ineos in Cologne. The hydrogen produced would be used to decarbonise existing ammonia production at the plant, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by more than 1
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