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Four EU countries set a massive offshore wind target of 65 GW by 2030

Electrek

Four EU countries – Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands – jointly announced yesterday that they have set an offshore wind target of at least 65 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 and then intend to more than double that combined total to 150 GW by 2050. GW of global offshore wind capacity. GW of global offshore wind capacity.

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Plug to build large-scale green hydrogen generation plant at port of Antwerp-Bruges

Green Car Congress

At the center of the largest chemical industry cluster in Europe and close to the North Sea, it provides transportation connections to Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, UK, and France. North Sea countries are major producers of wind power with more than 15 gigawatts (GW) of installed capacity. million tons of barge freight.

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Ørsted proposes to develop one of the world’s largest renewable hydrogen plants: SeaH2Land

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Ørsted, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, together with the major industrial companies in the North Sea Port cluster, have launched the SeaH2Land vision for a gigawatt scale project to reduce carbon emissions in the Dutch-Flemish industrial cluster with renewable hydrogen.

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Umicore inaugurates CAM plant in Poland; complete battery materials value chain in Europe

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Its state-of-the-art product and process technologies complement our metals refining and cathode precursor production facility in Finland as well as our world-class R&D and pioneering battery recycling activities in Belgium. Construction of the plant began in 2019 and production started in July this year.

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Audi switching from truck to rail for battery delivery

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Battery modules and cells needed in Belgium for the Audi e-tron and Audi e-tron Sportback were up to now transported by truck over the approximately 1,300-kilometer-long route from the supplier in Hungary. In Hungary and Belgium, Audi uses DBeco neutral. —Dieter Braun, Head of Supply Chain at Audi AG.

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Tesla powers Eneco’s largest battery project

Teslarati

Eneco, an energy producer in the Netherlands, is relying on Tesla to power its biggest battery project to date, which will be used to “more efficiently balance Belgium’s electricity grid” and is expected to be operational in 2024.

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Topsoe to build world’s largest SOEC electrolyzer production facility; 500 MW scalable to 5 GW; focusing on Power-to-X

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The political agreement ensures significant availability of the renewable power needed to supply future Power-to-X facilities in the EU.

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