Finland's first green hydrogen plant starts commercial production

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Finland's first green hydrogen plant starts commercial production

Reuters/MSN | February 12, 2025

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish company P2X Solutions has started commercial green hydrogen production at its facility that is first-of-a-kind in Finland and one of the first in Europe, it said on Wednesday.

A number of European companies, such as oil majors British BP and Spanish Repsol or Norway's aluminium and energy company Norsk Hydro [NHY.OL], have either cancelled or put their green hydrogen projects on hold due to spiralling costs and regulatory hurdles among other reasons.

"We are among the first in Europe to start production of this scale," P2X Solutions' chief executive Herkko Plit told Reuters.

P2X, majority-owned by Swiss energy group Alpiq since last year, said its new production plant in Harjavalta, Western Finland, has a production capacity of 20 MW and will also include a methanation facility that will launch its operations at a later stage.

It uses renewable electricity, such as wind power that is abundantly available in Finland, which enables it to call the hydrogen it produces "green."
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Green Hydrogen from Finland - the Cheapest Alternative from Europe

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1. Finland's largest source of electricity is nuclear, but it's a disgrace...

...to waste it for the benefit of marketing the rebanding of fossil fuels as "hydrogen."

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2. What's the best way to use nuclear in transportation?

Electric rail is obvious. But are there any good paths to creating liquid fuels for applications where a vehicle must carry its own energy source?

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3. Dimethyl ether.