In the picture (from left to right) Gerd Hummel, Managing Director/ CDO at SOWITEC and Andreas Görtz, President Sustainable Power Solutions at Rolls-Royce. Image credit: Rolls-Royce Power Systems

Rolls-Royce Power Systems and German renewables developer SOWITEC have teamed up to provide power-to-X projects with a total electrolysis capacity of up to 500MW by 2028.

The plants will use renewable energy sources to generate electrical power that will be used to produce hydrogen using mtu electrolysers.

This green hydrogen can be used as fuel for fuel cells and hydrogen engines, to produce industrial feedstock and to produce sustainable e-fuels for marine, aviation, agriculture, mining, and data center power.

“With this project, we are actively working to reduce greenhouse gases in industry. We are convinced that with our new sustainable mtu technologies and through the cooperation with SOWITEC, we can successfully drive the expansion of Power-to-X plants,” explained Andreas Görtz, president of the Sustainable Power Solutions business division at Rolls-Royce Power Systems.

“We have already been working on Power-to-X plants since 2017. In Rolls-Royce Power Systems, with its innovative products and global sales and service network, we see a competent partner to jointly deliver integrated green hydrogen ecosystems from a single source,” said Frank Hummel, CEO of SOWITEC Group GmbH. “We are pursuing the vision of a global energy supply based on renewable energies and providing access to clean and affordable energy for all people and are developing competitive projects accordingly.”

The partnership will benefit from Rolls-Royce’s experience with hydrogen ecosystems, as well as the mtu products that use sustainable fuels based on green hydrogen, such as mtu electrolysers, mtu fuel cell systems and mtu hydrogen engines.

SOWITEC currently has over 4.2GW of solar and wind projects installed in South America, Europe and Asia and will contribute its experience in developing turnkey renewable projects to the partnership with Rolls-Royce.

Rolls-Royce is currently operating an mtu fuel cell system, developing electrolysers to produce green hydrogen, and gradually releasing its main engines for sustainable fuels such as HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oils). The mtu gas engine portfolio is also being prepared for hydrogen as a fuel.