Octopus targets first commercial green hydrogen in Q3
Developer takes technology-agnostic approach to electrolysers for planned projects
Octopus Hydrogen, a portfolio company of the UK’s Octopus Energy Group, plans to bring its first two commercial green hydrogen plants online within months and install a third, 3t/d plant in Scotland by Q1 2024, CEO Will Rowe tells Hydrogen Economist. The first two projects will have 180t/yr of production capacity, with one co-located with 7MW of new solar capacity. “We are really keen on not taking otherwise viable renewables projects and placing them into green hydrogen,” says Rowe. Octopus Hydrogen aims to match green hydrogen production “as best as possible” with the co-located, newbuild renewables site and any other newbuild projects with which the firm has struck power-purchase agreemen
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