Sevivon has been developing renewable energy sources in Poland for many years. The PNE Group, which the company is a part of, is implementing several hydrogen projects. Together with our partners, we are working on solutions that have the potential to slow down climate change.

There are many methods for industrial production of hydrogen. One of the most popular remains steam methane reforming. However, it has the downside of high CO2 emissions. The solution is production of hydrogen by electrolysis of water using energy from renewable sources. The result is renewable, ‘green’ hydrogen.

At Sevivon, we are aware of the uses of renewable hydrogen as an energy carrier in transport or heating, since both of these sectors are currently sources of significant CO2 emissions. However, we also see green hydrogen’s potential for decarbonisation of energy-intensive heavy industries: fertilizer, chemical, petrochemical, and steel sectors.

Large-scale RES installations provide an opportunity to reduce emissions in industries where there will be no easier, climate-neutral energy alternatives in the foreseeable future.

Sevivon is developing wind and photovoltaic farms in north-western Poland with a total capacity exceeding 2 GW which will provide energy for renewable hydrogen-producing installations with a total capacity of 1 GW. Project of that scale has the potential to boost the development of the renewable hydrogen sector and to bolster European energy independence.

Connecting renewable hydrogen-producing installations to the hydrogen transmission network requires significant infrastructure expansion. That is why PNE AG has partnered with the Polish gas transmission operator GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. and the German operator GASCADE Gastransport GmbH.

The first stage of the joint project is to conduct feasibility studies for connecting electrolysis plants to the planned hydrogen network in Poland and to evaluate the cross-border connection of the Polish and German hydrogen networks. The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) has awarded funding for business case analysis ‘Cross-border Pomeranian Green Hydrogen Cluster’ under the CEF RES instrument.