Through innovative partnerships, examples of decarbonized solutions are already coming into view. The Haru Oni hydrogen plant in Chile is the world’s first integrated, industrial-scale plant for synthetic climate-neutral fuels. Owned by HIF Global, the plant includes a broad and diverse partner network that includes Siemens Energy, which provides wind turbines and electrolyzers for the plant. As it scales up, the plant will produce up to 550 million liters of electricity-based fuels, also known as eFuels, that can be used in internal combustion engines.
Green hydrogen, which is generated from renewable energy sources and water through electrolysis, will likely play a central role in the decarbonization of the industrial sector. Already, Siemens Energy has begun scaling the production of electrolyzers at a new factory in Berlin with partner Air Liquide. By 2025, the plant is expected to produce at least three gigawatts of electrolysis capacity per year.
Scaling production capacity creates a virtuous cycle in which costs can be further reduced, but Tartibi emphasizes that enabling the widespread adoption of green hydrogen will be a collective effort that involves industry, governments, and society at large.
“I believe that the affordability, reliability, and sustainability of energy for mankind is a responsibility of each and every one of us,” Tartibi says. “Siemens Energy takes this responsibility very seriously and wants to be a leader in this energy transition.”