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Flotta Oil Terminal (Orkney) in Scotland, has been unveiled as the proposed site for one of the world’s first large scale “green hydrogen” plants, capable of exporting hydrogen at both a national and an international level.
Green hydrogen is a carbon-neural fuel that represents just one of the innovative means by which we can look to reduce carbon emissions globally. The process, which uses renewable electricity, involves the “splitting” of water into two parts (referred to “water electrolysis”). The output of this water electrolysis is green hydrogen. Amongst a range of other important practical uses, green hydrogen has been earmarked as providing a possible solution to assist in the carbon reduction in sectors such as aviation, shipping, long distance hauliers and so on – namely, areas that are particularly reliant on fossil fuels at present.
Scaling up of green hydrogen capabilities across the globe is seen as being essential in the fight to reduce global emissions, and to achieve net zero emissions in the future.