中国石化新闻网讯 据油价网2023年3月2日报道，沙特阿拉伯能源公司沙特国际电力与水务公司（ACWA Power）时下正在位于沙特西北部的工商业新城NEOM开发世界上最大的公用事业规模的绿色氢气设施，ACWA Power首席执行官帕迪·帕德马纳坦在周四发表的采访中告诉彭博新闻社记者，该公司计划在沙特阿拉伯国内再建造三个巨型绿色氢气项目。

周三，ACWA Power表示，该公司已经敲定并签署了NEOM绿色氢气项目的融资协议，总投资成本为85亿美元，资金由长期债务和股权组合提供。ACWA Power正在与空气产品公司和NEOM公司合资开发这个设施，ACWA Power持有33.3%的股权。

ACWA Power表示，NEOM绿色氢气项目是世界上最大的公用事业规模的商业氢气设施，完全由可再生能源提供动力。在2026年投入使用时，它将利用蒂森克虏伯公司技术通过电解每天生产600吨清洁氢气；使用空气产品公司技术进行空气分离生产氮气；每年可生产多达120万吨的绿氨。

ACWA Power在3月2日举行的收益电话会议上表示，NEOM绿色氢气项目的成本将高于最初估计的约50亿美元，原因是追加的范围、成本通胀和更高的项目融资成本，包括利息。

帕德马纳坦在接受彭博新闻社记者采访时表示：“ACWA Power自己可以毫不迟疑地完成其中五个项目。”他指的是与NEOM绿色氢气厂规模类似的项目。

帕德马纳坦告诉彭博新闻社记者，由于开发人员获得更多经验和技术的改进，下一个绿色氢气工厂可能会比NEOM绿色氢气设施更便宜。

李峻 编译自 油价网

原文如下：

Developer Of World's Largest Green Hydrogen Facility Plans New Megaprojects

Saudi Arabia’s energy firm ACWA Power, which is developing the world’s largest utility-scale green hydrogen facility in NEOM, plans to build three more giant green hydrogen projects in country, the company’s chief executive Paddy Padmanathan told Bloomberg in an interview published on Thursday.  

On Wednesday, ACWA Power said it had finalized and signed the financing agreements for the NEOM Green Hydrogen Project at a total investment cost of $8.5 billion, funded by a combination of long-term debt and equity. ACWA Power is developing the facility in a joint venture with Air Products and NEOM Company, with ACWA Power holding a 33.3% equity stake.

The NEOM Green Hydrogen Project is the world’s largest utility-scale, commercially based hydrogen facility powered entirely by renewable energy, ACWA Power says. When commissioned in 2026, it will produce 600 tons per day of clean hydrogen by electrolysis using thyssenkrupp technology; production of nitrogen by air separation using Air Products technology; and production of up to 1.2 million tons per year of green ammonia.

In its earnings call today, ACWA Power said that the NEOM Green Hydrogen Project will have a higher cost than the original estimate of around $5 billion due to additional scope, cost inflation, and higher project financing costs, including interest.

“Acwa Power itself can do five of these projects without blinking,” Padmanathan told Bloomberg, referring to projects similar in scale to NEOM’s green hydrogen plant.

The next green hydrogen plants will likely be cheaper than the NEOM facility as developers gain more experience and technologies improve, Padmanathan told Bloomberg.