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May 10, 2022
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- The port of Rotterdam expects to be able to import 4.6 million
of tonnes of hydrogen per year in Europe
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- Prerequisites are the certification of green hydrogen and the
reducing the cost gap with respect to energy sources
pollutants
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 The Port Authority of Rotterdam has announced that by
2030 through the Dutch port can be imported into
Northwest Europe 4.6 million tons of hydrogen
per year, a volume significantly higher than expected that
will allow a reduction of 46 million tons of
CO2 emissions and will increase independence
Europe's energy. The institution explained that the forecast of such
import volume is based on the definition of projects
specific and realistic plans that companies are working on
of the port of Rotterdam in collaboration with exporting nations
of hydrogen.-
- There are seventy companies and exporting countries that
cooperate so that this flow of traffic can become
reality. These companies are working on projects that
plan, among other things, to import through the port of Rotterdam
efficiently and on a large scale hydrogen produced for example
in Latin America or Australia, hydrogen that can be
treated in Rotterdam and then transported to Europe
northwest. According to these partners, why the initiative
is successful, but two prerequisites are decisive. The first is
certification of green hydrogen imported from outside
of Europe, which will have to be certified as green hydrogen
in Europe. The second precondition is to close the gap
in economic terms between the use of renewable and low hydrogen
emissions of carbon and its derivatives compared to current
alternative energy sources that emit CO2. This - has
remembered the Dutch port authority - because until
the energy produced by fossil fuels will be more
economical energy produced in a sustainable way, the latter
will not get the necessary impulse to reach the
European climate targets.
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- The Managing Director of the Port of Rotterdam Authority,
Allard Castelein, highlighted that "the use of hydrogen
sustainable contributes substantially to European objectives
of reducing climate change and increasing
Europe's energy independence. With the production and
the import of renewable and low-emission hydrogen
carbon - he underlined - we build a sustainable future".
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