IN BRIEF

THE WORLD’S LARGEST UTILITY-SCALE HYDROGEN PLANT IN SAUDI ARABIA

Envision Energy, a specialist China-based supplier of wind turbines and energy management software, has signed a contract to supply 1.67 GW of wind turbines for Neom Green Hydrogen Co. This will be the world’s largest utility-scale hydrogen plant powered entirely by renewable energy. The facility is based at Oxagon, in Saudi Arabia’s Neom special economic zone. Under the terms of the contract, Envision’s 171-6.5 MW wind turbines will be installed and will be operational by 2026.

David Edmondson, CEO of Neom Green Hydrogen Co, comments: “Partnering with Envision Energy to deliver sustainable energy will enable NGHC to drive its vision of leading the global energy transition. We look forward to working closely as one team over the next few years during the project execution phase and subsequently into long term reliable operation.”

Neom Green Hydrogen

FRESNO: FIRST UTILITY-SCALE BATTERY STORAGE SYSTEM CONNECTED TO THE GRID

RWE has connected its first utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) to a California independent system operator. The project, Fifth Standard, is scheduled for completion in August 2023 and also includes a 150 MWac solar PV facility,. The BESS facility, at 137 MWac, 548 MWh, is located in Fresno County California. The company’s largest to date, the site has the capacity to provide 137 MW to the grid over a four-hour period.

Mark Noyes, CEO of RWE Clean Energy, comments: “Projects like Fifth Standard, with its co-located battery storage system, will become increasingly important to help ensure that as renewables form a bigger part of the energy mix, the electricity produced can be used when it is needed most. In our case, future growth is backed by project development pipeline comprising more than 24 GW in onshore wind, solar and battery storage, one of the largest in the USA.”

Located 45 miles SW of Fresno, Fifth Standard includes 369 334 PV panels and covers 1,600 acres.

The project supports California’s clean energy goals as the state works toward its net zero goal of 2045.

The solar panels onsite will include a racking system with solar trackers, and excess energy not sent to the grid will be stored in the on-site BESS. Fifth Standard is expected to generate up to US$10 million in revenue to local taxing jurisdictions during its lifetime.

JG Pears is developing a proposal for a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant to provide steam and electricity to its poultry rendering facility at Low Marnham, Newark, Nottinghamshire. The plant will burn meat and bone meal which will provide steam for JG Pears’ operating processes, along with electricity which will be used onsite, with any excess going to the National Grid.

Norton Rose Fulbright advised JG Pears on the development and financing of the biomass plant.

The facility will replace over 90 percent of the fossil fuels currently used in the rendering process with meat and bone meal (MBM), a sustainable alternative that has a calorific value of the same magnitude as coal, saving over 150,000 tonnes of carbon-dioxide per year. MBM can also be sourced more locally than the fuels currently used, which in turn reduces carbon emissions from transport and transport miles.

JG Pears is one of the UK’s leading processors of animal byproducts and food waste. Pioneering environmentally-aware practices since we started out in 1972, it has played a vital role in Europe’s agricultural and food industries.

Collecting from across the UK, the company takes material which would otherwise require incineration or go into landfill and turn it into sustainable high-quality products.

The company’s processing plants are modern, hygienic, and use cutting-edge techniques to ensure that all material is processed in a bio-secure environment.

Amiens Energies is the public service delegate for the distribution and production of heat for the city of Amiens. Its role is to meet the heating and domestic hot water needs in Amiens.

Amiens Energies wanted to extend and interconnect its heating network by adding new production units. Amiens Energies produces heat in the form of hot water from several production facilities. The distributed heat meets the heating and hot water needs of the buildings in the area.

The objective of the CHP system was to create a large interconnected north-south heat network to supply a large number of local buildings.

Clarke Energy was called in to provide the three turnkey CHP plants for the city of Amiens.

The plants are CTM 1 & 2, Porte de Flandres (1 x 624) and Coliseum (1 x 416).

The CHP units have the potential to produce electrical power which will be fed into the Enedis network.

Working with the average effective pressure (MEP) of 25.06 bar, means that around 4.6 MW per engine is generated over 720 hours per year.

Since the commissioning of the plant in 2018, the two CTM engines have each produced 116 GW and each has been operating for 13,000 OpH.

Two INNIO Jenbacher engines: JMS 624 GS-N.L BMEP : 25.06 bar are fed by natural gas and provide an installed capacity of Elect. power: 9.2 MW.

Thermal power : 8.6 MW.