Gen2 Energy and Provaris Energy have signed a collaboration agreement to conduct a comprehensive prefeasibility study to determine the technical and economic viability of producing and supplying compressed green hydrogen from the hydrogen project in Åfjord to European ports using Provaris’ marine storage and shipping solution.
Martin Carolan, CEO of Provaris Energy, said, “We are delighted to be working with Gen2 Energy to demonstrate the suitability of Provaris’ unique solution to the production and transport of bulk-scale hydrogen from the Afjord project. This collaboration will benefit from the synergies of Provaris and Gen2 Eenrgy’s approach to using compression as an energy-efficient carrier for green hydrogen. It can also demonstrate Norway’s role in delivering bulk-volumes to ports in Europe that are requesting a simple and flexible solution to import pipeline-ready, gaseous green hydrogen to meet the REPowerEU ambitions for 10m tonnes by 2030.”
Provaris has advanced a portfolio of hydrogen shipping and storage solutions and has been granted approval in principle from ABS for two sizes of GH2 carriers and a floating storage unit.