As a country, Chile is also committed to reducing its carbon footprint. It has set itself ambitious goals as part of its national strategy for green hydrogen.
Porsche and Siemens Energy have teamed up to set up a production unit in Chile for the production of almost CO2-neutral fuel. The duo set up a plant in Punta Arenas, Chile. Juan Carlos Jobet, Chile’s Energy Minister, was also present at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new production unit. While this project will encompass several units in Chile, companies are initially building a pilot plant in the Chilean Patagonia in Chile.
The plant is to produce around 130,000 liters of CO2-neutral fuel, so-called eFuels. At a later date, a complete expansion of the plant will increase the production capacity to approx. 55 million liters and 550 million liters respectively by 2024 and 2026.
Another big name on this project is “Highly Innovative Fuels (HIF)”, which is helping the duo to obtain the necessary permits to start construction on the facility. In the meantime, Siemens Energy has started preparations for the commercial feasibility of this project. The production facility for eFuels is scheduled to come into force in mid-2022. In addition to Porsche, HIF and Siemens Energy, Enel, Gasco, ExxonMobil and ENAP are involved in this project.
Porsche is also planning to use eFuels in its range of combustion vehicles. Michael Steiner, Head of Research and Development at Porsche AG: “That fits in with our clear overall sustainability strategy. This means that Porsche can already be net CO2-neutral by 2030. Fuels made with renewable energies can help. Our icon, the 911, is particularly suitable for the use of eFuels. eFuels will make it possible to reduce fossil CO2 emissions from internal combustion engines by up to 90 percent. Among other things, we will be using the first fuel from Chile in our Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup racing cars from 2022. “
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As a country, Chile is also committed to reducing its carbon footprint. It has set itself ambitious goals as part of its national strategy for green hydrogen. The country wants to have an electrolyser capacity of 5 gigawatts (GW) by 2025, which is expected to increase to 25 GW over the next 5 years. The country aims to become a major exporter of hydrogen and its fuel derivatives.
In addition, the Haru Oni project in Magallanes is another ace up Chile’s sleeve. The project uses the ideal climatic conditions perfectly to generate almost CO2-neutral fuel from wind power. The process begins with electrolysers splitting water molecules into oxygen and green hydrogen using wind energy and then filtering out the CO2 components. Then air is mixed with the green hydrogen to generate synthetic methanol. It is later used to make eFuels.
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