A large-scale project aimed at producing and transporting green hydrogen at sea, H2opZee, will not be receiving a grant from the National Growth Fund after the second round of review by the commission. The consortium, which includes RWE and Neptune Energy, applied for a grant of 462 million euros, but to no avail.
“You never know if you’ll get the grant, but this is obviously a real shame,” says Adriaan van der Maarel of RWE. “We are going to see, together with Neptune Energy and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, what our next step is.”
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The purpose of the hydrogen project is to enable the development of a new offshore wind farm with a production capacity of 300-500 MW of electricity. Using electrolysis, hydrogen can be produced at sea. A pipeline then transports the hydrogen to land,…
Green hydrogen for offshore project misses the Growth Fund boat
