Australia’s Enegix Energy has announced the world’s largest green hydrogen plant to be built in Ceará, Brazil, after signing a MoU with the state government.
Base One facility will produce more than 600 million kg of green hydrogen annually from 3.4GW of baseload renewable energy.
Enegix Energy unveiled the Base One green hydrogen project in cooperation with the State Government of Ceará, an investment of $5.4 billion, the company said in a press release on March 1. Under the terms of the MoU signed on February 19 with State Governor Camilo Santana, Enegix will set up the world’s largest green hydrogen plant that will produce over 600 million kg of green hydrogen per year from already contracted 3.4GW of combined baseload wind and solar power through a partnership with Enerwind.
Base One will be established in the state of Ceará, northeast of Brazil and will provide a strategic location for Enegix’s renewable hydrogen production with direct access to all major international markets via ocean freight, Enegix said, noting that 500 hectares of commercial land has been scoped in the Port of Pecém, a world-class deepsea port with established infrastructure and access to the required quantities of water – to enable the electrolysis process to separate hydrogen and oxygen elements.
Enegix’s planned next-generation facility will be run completely using renewable energy with zero emissions and will harness the great renewable energy potential that Ceará has available with solar and onshore and offshore wind to be realised allowing Base One to be expanded to over 100GW to meet global demand, the press release read.
“Our partnership with the Ceará State Government is a major milestone for the company. Base One will turn Ceará into a major hydrogen export location and establish Enegix as a global renewable power producer aligning with our vision and strategy to replace expensive, high emission power grids with renewable, baseload, and cost-effective zero-carbon grids,” Enegix Founder and CEO Wesley Cooke said, adding, “Through this partnership, we plan to create a new model of sustainable energy for the world’s fast-growing population while reducing dependency and cutting end-user costs on high carbon-emitting fuel sources like diesel”.
The project is expected to take 3-4 years to build. Enegix has signed a MoU with a leading international engineering firm and technical consultant to undertake a feasibility study, and will soon start the process of obtaining environmental and social licenses.
