In Ireland, Business Plus reported that renewable energy developer Mercury Renewables has submitted an application for a $224m utility-scale integrated wind farm and green hydrogen project.
The planned development would produce 4.5 million kilograms of green hydrogen per year once fully operational, according to the report.
The hydrogen plan will use renewable energy from the Firlough wind farm to split water into green hydrogen and oxygen with no emissions or harmful by-products through a process called electrolysis.
The planning application consists of a 78MW, 13-turbine wind farm as well as the proposed hydrogen plant, which is expected to create between 100 to 150 jobs during construction.
“We started investigating the feasibility of producing green hydrogen in the West of Ireland back in 2020, mostly due to its world class wind resource but also because of the surplus electricity the Firlough Wind Farm is expected to produce,” said Tim Bills-Everett, COO of Mercury Renewables.
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