Energy, Oil & Gas Magazine EOG 215 July | Page 58

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Huge potential
The focus of the project is converting the Point Tupper fuel storage facility into a green hydrogen production facility . This will help to develop the green economy in Nova Scotia , demonstrating the region ’ s leadership in progressing towards a more sustainable future with support from the government and local community . The facility , which is due to be ready for production by 2025 , will be the first green ammonia production site in Atlantic Canada .
Green hydrogen is made through the process of water electrolysis , this is then processed into green ammonia for reasons of transport efficiency . Whilst green hydrogen is a very light element and difficult to compress or liquify , green ammonia is a very good , dense carrier of hydrogen and it can also be used in a gas turbine as direct fuel . Using ammonia as a fuel rather than having to re-crack this back into hydrogen improves efficiency and could have real benefits complementing the grid . There is also a large market for the use of ammonia , around 80 percent of which is used as agricultural fertilizer and the remainder within the chemical industry .
The project also involves the building of a two-gigawatt wind farm , the largest in the western hemisphere ,
which will be used to produce carbonfree green hydrogen made from 100 percent renewable resources . This is part of the second phase of the project which is being built on around 120,000 acres of Crown land in Guysborough County , just south of the Canso Strait . Over time , EverWind hopes to tap into the offshore wind resource in Nova Scotia , where average wind speeds reach 11 meters per second with capacity factors of around 60 percent . Here , there is around 100 gigawatts of viable real estate and this , in combination with the Canadian ITC , allows for huge potential scalability in this area .
Partner support
Coming from an impressive career of more than 20 years in the infrastructure industry , EverWind ’ s CEO , Trent Vichie , sheds more light on the practical benefits of locating the project here : “ Nova Scotia has , I ’ d say , one of the most favorable wind regimes in North America but , with only around one million residents , the local demand is relatively small compared to the available resources . What it has not had up until this point is a demand to justify the building of
With scale come the benefits of efficiency
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