Major energy collaboration in the Triangle area to create PtX ecosystem

A new and large-scale public-private partnership will transform the Trakant area into a large, shared ecosystem within Power-to-X. Seven municipalities in the area and so far 13 companies are forming the new Triangle Energy Alliance (TEA), writes Børsen.

The goal is to create a connection between producers of both traditional and renewable energy companies, the energy grid, producers of hydrogen and buyers of hydrogen in the form of, for example, Shell, Billund Airport, the Port of Fredericia and other transport companies, each of which can use the hydrogen from, for example, Everfuel or Green Hydrogen Systems in its own way.

Everfuel presented plans earlier in May to build a 300 MW electrolysis plant in Fredericia near the Shell refinery, which can use it in production. The HySynergy project consists of two phases, the first of which consists of a 20 MW plant.

Everfuel expects to be able to start construction of the plant in the third quarter of this year, while it has already started planning the next phase, which will bring Power-to-X to a large scale and be ready in 2024, which will benefit the entire region. A third phase of 1 GW is also already on the drawing board.

Everfuel itself states that it plans to invest 1.5 billion euros in the first two phases of the HySynergy project and will reach an annual turnover of 1 billion. euros annually in hydrogen sales before 2030.

In addition to the two hydrogen companies, Ørsted, Vattenfall, Cowi, Process Engineering, Airco Process Technology, Nature Energy, Energnist and the Triangle Area Heat Transmission Company are also involved in the collaboration.

Unique opportunity with infrastructure

The Triangle Area has a unique location and infrastructure, the new chairman of the board of the Triangle Energy Alliance, Christian Motzfeldt, tells Fredericia Avisen. There is a lot of heavy traffic through the area, which is one of the areas that can use hydrogen in the green transition with great benefits.

– My success criterion is to quickly map out the many potential synergy gains that can be triggered in the short and medium term in the Triangle Area and have them discussed in the Alliance, so that they can be translated into concrete investment plans among the participants in the Alliance. We have unique conditions to succeed in this in the Triangle Area, says Chairman of the Board Christian Motzfeldt and adds:

- We have a large refinery that produces around half of all fuels for Danish transport. They have set out to invest heavily in green conversion of fuels, so that the capacity that is currently used for processing gas and oil from the North Sea can be used for green energy. We have a port that is built for shipping fuels, we have some of the country's leading companies within hydrogen production and electrolysis equipment, namely Everfuel and Green Hydrogen Systems. We can access green carbon from Nature Energy's biogas production in the Triangle area and we have Ørsted's large combined heat and power plant in Skærbæk, from which we can also obtain green carbon, which in the future may become a scarce resource that we must utilize wisely, says Christian Motzfeldt.

Mayor of Fredericia Municipality Steen Wrist (S) will be deputy chairman of the alliance. In addition, the board consists of Jens Ejner Christensen (V), mayor of Vejle Municipality, Jørn Pedersen (V), mayor of Kolding Municipality, Johannes Lundsfryd Jensen (S), mayor of Middelfart Municipality, Ole Thomsen, Senior Vice President and Head of Bioenergy at Ørsted, Finn Schousboe, Business Manager at Dansk Shell, Sebastian Koks Andreassen, CEO at Green Hydrogen Systems and Jacob Krogsgaard, CEO at Everfuel.

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