Transition Industries is designing a hydrogen-based, low-carbon methanol production facility in Sinaloa, which is expected to produce around 2.2 million tonnes of green methanol per year.

Siemens Energy’s Elyzer P-300 electrolyser has been confirmed as the backbone of the hydrogen production plant, featuring an estimated production capacity of approximately 4,000kg of hydrogen per hour.

Cost certainty has been built into the FEED agreement, which sets an initial binding not-to-exceed lump sum firm price, followed by a final lump sum turnkey firm price for the full engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract – giving Transition Industries more predictable project costs and execution commitments.

Once operational in 2029, the developer said the Pacifico Mexinol project will be the “largest standalone ultra-low-carbon chemical production facility.”

Methanol production is one of the largest industrial consumers of hydrogen today, used as a feedstock for plastics and fuels, but it is also a major source of CO₂ emissions.

Momentum is already building elsewhere. European Energy produced the first molecules of hydrogen-derived e-methanol at its Kassø facility in Denmark earlier this year, at one of the continent’s largest power-to-X plants.