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Driving clean innovative technologies towards the market

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Driving clean innovative technologies towards the market

HH - Holland Hydrogen

HH - Holland Hydrogen

BEAR: Hybrid regenerative glass furnace
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Project summary
Holland Hydrogen (HH) plans to build a 400
megawatt(MW)summary
electrolyser in the Port ofProject
Rotterdam, in the sub-municipality of Pernis,
to produce green hydrogen, using renewable
HollandHydrogen(HH) plansbuilda 400
The
BEAR project
demonstrate
atofirst-of-a-kindelectricity
from willoffshorewind farms
in themegawatt(MW)electrolyser
inthePorthybridregenerative
furnacewith200
a moreof
North end-fired
Sea. HH will
be developedin twoRotterdam,in thesub-municipalityof Pernis,
MW phases
andwillbe thesharefirstand
electrolyser
than40% electricalmelting
throughput
toproducegreenhydrogen,using
renewable
project ofof 170
thistons
scale.
Overall,theTheproject
capacityof glass
per day.
furnaceelectricity
from offshorewind
farms in thewill demonstrate
a complete,end-to-end,
will
be Sea.
implemented
in Steklarna
Hrastnik’s
integrated
renewablehydrogensystemNorth
HH
will bedevelopedin two(SH)200existing
production
site
in Hrastnik,
proof-of-concept
at beanindustrial
scale,TheMW
phasesand willthefirstSlovenia.
electrolyser
developed
world-leading
sustainability
hybridfurnacewill
replace Overall,the existing
projectofwith
thisscale.
theend-fired
projectcredentials.
The
green
hydrogenwill
initially
regenerative
furnace aforcomplete,extra-whiteend-to-end,
flint glass
will demonstrate
be supplied to a refinery and, later on,
integrated
renewable
systemproduction,
therebyresultinghydrogena more than50%
to the mobility
sector.
Thisinwill
allow for
proof-of-concept
at
an industrial
scale,
reductionof natural
consumption
up
toabout 100%
relativegas
greenhousegasand(GHG)
developedwithworld-leading
sustainability
emission
avoidancegasover(GHG)
the first
ten years
33%of greenhouseemissionsavoidcredentials.
Thegreenhydrogenwill
initiallyofoperation.
ance over the first ten years of operation.

Project Summary

Steklarna Hrastnik d.o.o.
COORDINATOR

Rotterdam
Hydrogen Company B.V.
BENEFICIARY
Kemijski inštitut (NIC)
BENEFICIARY
COORDINATOR
Shell Hydrogen
Operations & Production B.V.
LOCATION

Rotterdam Hydrogen Company B.V.

Hrastnik, Slovenia
LOCATION
BENEFICIARY
Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
SECTOR
Shell
HydrogenOperationsmaterial& Production B.V.
Glass, ceramics
and construction
SECTOR
Hydrogen
GHGLOCATIONEMISSION AVOIDANCE0.1
Mt
CO eq AVOIDANCERotterdam,
The Netherlands
GHG EMISSION

5.1MtSECTOR
CO2 OFeq INNOVATION FUND GRANTAMOUNT
EURHydrogen
2 238
AMOUNTOF000INNOVATION FUND GRANT
EUR
89 000 000
RELEVANTCOSTS
GHG EMISSION AVOIDANCEEUR
3730000
STARTING DATE

5.1 Mt CO2 eq

1 STARTING
January 2023
DATEAMOUNT2022
OF INNOVATION FUND GRANT
1 September
PLANNED DATE OF ENTRY INTO OPERATION

EUR 89 000 000

1 PLANNED
July 2027DATE OF ENTRY INTO OPERATION
Q1 2025
STARTING DATE

be supplied to a refinery and, later on,
1 January 2023
to the mobility sector. This will allow for
about 100% relative greenhouse gas (GHG)
Climate Action
PLANNED DATE OF ENTRY INTO OPERATION
emission avoidance over the first ten years
1 July 2027

Leapfrogging 150 years of regenerative
furnace innovation
The end fired regenerative furnace is a technologythat has been used for over 150 years to makepackaging glass. This technology is widely used in
the glass industry and accounts for 75% of global
production of container glass. However, it is notvery energy efficient and has a high carbon
footprint due to its reliance on fossil fuels. The
alternative, less carbon intensive, technologies
such as all-electric furnaces, have limitations thathinder an industry-wide acceptation across thecontainer glass sector. To address this issue, theBEAR project aims to demonstrate a new hybrid
regenerative furnace that combines the energy
efficiency of all-electric furnaces with theoperational flexibility of conventional regenerative
furnaces.
With the envisioned hybridisation, the project aims
the increase energy share of electrical boostingfrom the conventional 5-10% of end-fired
regenerative furnaces to beyond 40%. This will
enable SH’s production site to reduce its natural
gas consumption by more than 50% and avoid 0.1
Mt CO2 eq over the first ten years of operation. Thisis enough to offset the total household GHG
emissions of the Zasavje region (>20 000
inhabitants), where SH resides, for more than oneyear.

Aligning the container glass sector withthe green transition
The electrification of the container glass sector,
with the adaptation of the hybrid regenerative
furnace, will enable to align the glass melting
process with the availability of renewable energy
sources (RES). Moreover, with the proposedsolution local RES can be coupled directly to themelting process, as planned on the project site. Thus,a sector wide uptake of the hybrid regenerative
furnace would significantly increase the resilienceand security of the glass manufacturing process interms of energy supply.

Just transition of a coal region
With BEAR, SH aims to replace the existing
regenerative furnace for extra-white flint glass
production at one of its two sites. Both production
sites are in Zasavje, a Slovenian coal region intransition, with a high unemployment rate. SH
accounts for roughly 5% of jobs in the region andrepresents more than 10% of the region’s GDP. The
proposed investment in sustainable production
technologies is expected to have a great impact on
the local economy by retaining current jobs andcreating new ones. Furthermore, with its coupling ofinnovative technologies and local RES, the projectwill serve as a model for decarbonisation to otherenergy intensive industries in the region.

Existing end-fired regerative furnace