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Romanian oil and gas firm OMV Petrom has received the fourth and final 5MW electrolyser that will be installed at its Petrobrazi clean fuel facility.
The 20MW installation will produce 3,000 tonnes of green hydrogen per year, which will be used to process around 250,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel and hydrotreated vegetable oil.
The units come from the German engineering firm Neuman & Esser and will be partially powered by an on-site 7MW solar farm, which OMV started building in February.
The 20MW project also saw €21m ($23.9m) in funds from the country’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan, a framework of economic reforms and investments initially created to aid recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
It precedes a further planned 35MW project, which could bring the site’s capacity to 8,000 tonnes per year of green hydrogen and potentially up to 660,000 tonnes per year of fuel.
A timeline for this second system remains undisclosed.
OMV Petrom has invested €750 m ($863m) in its Petrobrazi’s e-fuel programme, which plans to spend €11bn ($12.7bn) by 2030 on other clean energy projects.
The refinery’s advancement comes as European producers expand e-fuel and SAF capabilities with the EU’s ReFuelEU Aviation regulation and efforts across mobility to decarbonise vehicle fleets set to drive demand.
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