Dutch Project Produces First Green Hydrogen On North Sea Gas Platform

PosHYdon level successful the North Sea

PosHYdon / The Hague & Partners, 2026

An innovative aviator task successful the Netherlands - focused connected power modulation solutions - has reached a milestone infinitesimal of producing its first batch of greenish hydrogen connected an progressive earthy state level successful the North Sea.

The task - PosHYdon - led by a consortium of partners pinch support of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy is the first inaugural successful the world to harvester offshore upwind power, greenish hydrogen accumulation and earthy state extraction astatine sea.

The project's first batch of greenish hydrogen was successfully produced successful precocious July, astatine the Q13a-A level operated by Eni Energy Netherlands, located astir 13 kilometers disconnected the seashore of Scheveningen territory successful The Hague.

According to a spokesperson it is the first "fully electrified accumulation platform" successful the Dutch assemblage of the North Sea. Onsite, seawater is converted into demineralised h2o that's subsequently transformed into hydrogen done electrolysis. The energy required for this process is supplied by offshore upwind energy. All the while, simultaneous accumulation of earthy state continues.

Alongside the platform's usability Eni, different task partners see DEME Group, EBN, Eneco, Emerson, Gasunie, Hatenboerwater, Investa Expertise Centrum, Iv, Nel, Nexstep, NGT, Nogat, TAQA and TNO.

A Watershed Moment For Green Hydrogen

Lex de Groot, managing director, Eni Energy Netherlands, said: "It is singular to spot that, together pinch each these nationalist and backstage partners, we person been capable to execute a world first done PosHYdon.

"The reuse of existing offshore platforms for sustainable applications is now becoming a tangible reality. Together, we are taking a meaningful measurement towards a early offshore power strategy successful the North Sea."

Rene Peters, business head power infrastructure, TNO, called the task an important measurement successful scaling up offshore hydrogen accumulation based connected offshore upwind energy.

"We believe, the aviator offers the opportunity to summation valuable knowledge and applicable acquisition that are basal for the further improvement of large-scale offshore hydrogen production. This helps to trim risks and power costs much effectively."

Nathan Pettus, president of process systems and solutions business, Emerson, described the caller accumulation of greenish hydrogen astatine oversea by PosHYdon arsenic "a watershed moment" for world energy transition solutions.

"When we began this travel successful 2022 pinch our task partners, we knew it would beryllium rather the feat to harvester offshore upwind power, hydrogen accumulation and earthy state accumulation astatine sea. Today, that integrated imagination has go a reality."

Pettus besides flagged Emerson’s automation and power technologies helped make PosHYdon’s milestone possible, managing the analyzable integration of desalination, electrolysis and state blending processes pinch precision and safety.

"This task validates what we’ve agelong believed: that precocious integer solutions are basal to accelerating the hydrogen economy. As we look ahead, the occurrence of PosHYdon opens unprecedented possibilities."

The Next Stage

The excitement of having achieved the project’s first greenish hydrogen accumulation is palpable on pinch the nickname of its adjacent captious stage.

While the aviator task operators proceed to summation applicable acquisition pinch integrating aggregate power systems offshore and producing hydrogen successful a marine environment, task investigation and modelling is besides focused connected costs, attraction requirements, and operational capacity of offshore hydrogen installations.

Additionally, during the latest trial phase, greenish hydrogen will beryllium produced initially pinch the nonsubjective of achieving unchangeable strategy operations and the grade to which the strategy tin respond to fluctuations successful offshore upwind powerfulness generation.

A spokesperson said the full operational attack has been cautiously assessed for information and biology impact, enabling the postulation of valuable applicable data.

The cardinal findings from the aviator are expected to beryllium analyzed and compiled successful August and September. The results will beryllium shared pinch the hydrogen assemblage and Stientje van Veldhoven-van der Meer, curate of ambiance and greenish growth, The Netherlands.

Those results will thief find the adjacent steps toward scaling up offshore greenish hydrogen accumulation successful Europe, and beyond.

Bulk of hydrogen presently produced astir the world is grey hydrogen made from earthy state done a process known arsenic steam methane reforming SMR. Next comes bluish hydrogen, a little c type still made utilizing SMR but pinch c seizure and storage, and yet location is greenish hydrogen generated done electrolysis of h2o utilizing renewable powerfulness rather for illustration the PosHYdon project.

However, bluish and greenish hydrogen presently relationship for little than 1% of world production, according to the International Energy Agency. This will request to alteration for hydrogen to play a meaningful domiciled successful a early nett zero system backed up by green investments.