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manufacturing sites, six research and
development locations, and its commercial
operations. Two solar projects
in central Spain will be constructed by
IGNIS specifically for this VPPA, bringing
additional renewable energy generation
to the mainland European grid.
Schneider Electric Sustainability Business
managed the go-to-market strategy,
conducted project evaluation of the
bids received, and advised during the
PPA negotiation phase. GSK officials
have said the company is committed
to an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas
emissions across all scopes by 2030,
and a 90% reduction by 2045, from a
2020 baseline.
Renewable Hydrogen Group Announces
UK Plant. Global green and
renewable hydrogen pioneer Lhyfe in
February unveiled plans for its first UKbased
plant to support that country's
net-zero ambitions. The company's proposed
facility, called Lhyfe Wallsend and
sited in the northeastern region of England,
is receiving support from Shepherd
Offshore, a maritime and energy
service provider, after the signing of a
land deal. If plans are approved, Lhyfe's
facility on the brownfield site of the
historic Neptune Bank Power Station in
Wallsend, North Tyneside, would have
an initial capacity of 20 MW. It would be
capable of producing up to eight tonnes
of green hydrogen per day. The plant is
being designed to supply hydrogen to
several organizations seeking to decarbonize
their manufacturing and transport
operations. Lhyfe is considered a
pioneer in the production of green and
renewable
hydrogen
through water
electrolysis, with its units being powered
by green electricity. The Francebased
multinational's first plant in Pays
de la Loire, in western France, has been
operational since 2021, with two more
sites inaugurated in the Occitanie and
Brittany regions in December 2023.
The recent announcement comes 18
months after Lhyfe launched its UK subsidiary,
headquartered in Newcastle, to
meet the increasing demand from companies
aiming to reduce their reliance
on natural gas and other fossil fuels.
Groups Begin Building Two Onshore
Wind Farms in Sweden. Renewable
Power Capital (RPC) has started construction
of two onshore wind farms in
Sweden. The installations have 230 MW
of total generation capacity. LyondellBasell
has two 10-year power purchase
agreements (PPAs) for the electricity
from the farms. Swedish officials have
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said the project highlights the push for
Sweden's onshore wind industry to provide
renewable energy for the chemical
industry. RPC's Storhöjden and Knäsjöberget
wind farms form part of its 553MW
cluster of four wind farms in the
Kramfors and Solleftea municipalities.
RPC in January of this year announced
it had ordered 80 Nordex turbines for
the cluster. Nordex will start delivering
and installing the turbines in the spring
of 2025; the two wind farms are expected
to start operations at the beginning
of 2026. The two PPAs are expected to
benefit from about 720,000 MWh of
wind power annually. The deals, which
are the largest PPAs completed by LyondellBasell
to date, support the company's
target to procure a minimum
of 50% of electricity from renewable
sources by 2030. Separately, in January
2024, RPC signed a 10-year PPA with
Ardagh Glass Packaging-Europe for
the electricity produced by the 161-MW
Vitberget onshore wind farm, which is
also part of the cluster in Sweden.
Wärtsilä Will Deliver Large ESS to
Scottish Group. Technology group Wärtsilä
will supply a 300-MW/600-MWh
energy storage system (ESS) under an
engineered equipment delivery
contract
to Zenobe, an electric vehicle fleet
and battery storage specialist, in Kilmarnock,
Scotland. The Kilmarnock South
installation is the second ESS Wärtsilä
is delivering to Zenobe. The ESS
will be one of the largest in Scotland
to date. It will be the first facility built
with Wärtsilä's Quantum High Energy
(QuantumHE), a next-generation ESS.
QuantumHE provides increased energy
density for Zenobe and is fitted with
state-of-the-art features to ensure the
highest level of safety for the surrounding
community. The ESS is expected to
be operational by the end of 2025. The
project will be delivered under National
Grid's Network Options Assessment
(NOA) Stability Pathfinder program,
which aims to cost-effectively address
stability issues in the electricity system
created by the increased adoption of
intermittent renewable generation. The
ESS will help grid operators better balance
supply and demand, and support
integration of the UK's abundant wind
generation to the grid. Wärtsilä and Zenobe
also are nearing completion of a
200-MW/400-MWh ESS in Blackhillock,
Scotland, which is expected to be operational
later this year. ■
-Darrell Proctor is a senior associate
editor for POWER.
www.powermag.com
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