Access to the source in Sweden significantly enhances the project and all landing points remain as planned by Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies with partners Royal Vopak and Germany’s Get H2 initiative.

Green hydrogen will be stored using LOHC in Sweden with a 24-tonnes-a-day hydrogenation plant from Hydrogenious, and up to 40 shiploads a year are earmarked for the two countries.

In Rotterdam, half of the hydrogen will be released in a new Hydrogenious LOC dehydrogenation plant (12 tonnes of H2 daily) and the other half of the hydrogen-loaded LOHC will be transported by barge via the river Ems to Lingen in Germany.

Hydrogen will then be released from the LOHC in another plant and used by local industry, as well as fed into a hydrogen pipeline as part of the Get H2 initiative.

The announcement opens up the prospect of large-scale imports of LOHC, and accelerating decarbonisation of industry, mobility and heat supplies.

The project should meet all requirements proposed by the ‘Important Projects of Common European Interest’ (IPCEI) framework and generate spill-over effects across the EU.

Sweden is stepping up its profile across the hydrogen sector, seeing it as a lynch pin in driving down greenhouse gas emissions.

Scandinavian hydrogen station designer, builder and operator Hynion is to install two new high-capacity hydrogen stations in Sweden, in the hubs of Västerås and Jönköping.

Sweden-based H2 Green Steel has signed a seven-year contract for 2TWh of renewable electricity per year from the Norwegian hydropower company, Statkraft.

In May, Lhyfe and Swedish local energy company Trelleborgs Energi joined forces in a pre-study that aims to build a local renewable hydrogen production system in southernmost Sweden.