Energy & Science

Wind Power to Run Giant Hydrogen Plant at BP Oil Refinery

  • Electrolyser at Lingen refinery will be one of EU’s biggest
  • Orsted’s offshore wind farm in North Sea to power project

If it gets financial backing, the plant at the BP’s Lingen refinery in northwestern Germany would draw 50 megawatts of electricity from North Sea wind farms to make hydrogen.

Source: BP Plc

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Two of Europe’s largest energy companies, BP Plc and Orsted A/S, said they’d join to develop an industrial-scale electrolyzer to make hydrogen as a green fuel at a major oil refinery in Germany.