The industrial transformation to fossil free energy applications requires the maximum use of all geographically available renewable energy sources.

In northern Europe powerful wind and tidal kinetic energies are available in maritime locations.

Advanced technologies are available to exploit these energy sources at low cost.

Offshore plants for the production of renewable electric energy and the production of green gases increasingly replace onshore plant constructions due to lacking terrain and administrative constraints, but also for efficiency reasons.

Today’s green hydrogen production projects are not yet cost competitive and profitably scalable.

GHyGA has formed a consortium of industrial partners and academia to prepare a lighthouse project within the next 5 years to support the operation of a prototype factory starting in 2030. In 2030 GHyGA will demonstrate by its Wind-&-Water-to-Hydrogen project (2W2H2) the realization of a cost competitive and scalable production facility.

The design of an autonomous offshore hydrogen/e-fuel production plant including electric energy production is a challenging novelty. Design methods, environmental conditions, risk description and mitigation are central to the 2W2H2 project.

The project creates an autonomous offshore prototype plant for the production of hybrid renewable electric energy, green hydrogen as feedstock, CO2 as feedstock, e-methanol as the final product for the marine and aviation transport sector.

The project partners contribute their novel technologies and equipment and integrate them in the optimised production process chain.

The platform recycling and repurposing will take place in Shetland Islands Lewrick Harbour und agreement with the Shetland Islands Council (SIC). The platform will be installed in a Shetland Islands marine location under SIC contract for a 20 year operational period.

New qualified jobs and a Community Benefit Plan will be created.