The pilot plant is scheduled to start production in mid-2022 and is expected to produce around 130,000 liters of e-fuel in 2022.
Porsche and Siemens Energy, together with several international companies, have built an industrial plant in Punta Arenas, Chile, to produce almost carbon-neutral fuel (eFuel). The project’s foundation stone laying ceremony took place in Chile and the pilot plant is initially being built north of Punta Arenas in Chilean Patagonia. It is expected to produce around 130,000 liters of e-fuel in 2022. The capacity will be expanded to about 55 million liters by 2024 and to about 550 million liters by 2026 in two phases. The necessary environmental permits have now been obtained by the Chile project. The company Highly Innovative Fuels (HIF) Siemens Energy has also started preparatory work for the next major commercial phase of the project.
Porsche started the demonstration project and will use eFuels in its own combustion engine vehicles. Michael Steiner, executive board member for research and development at Porsche AG, said, “This fits with our clear overall sustainability strategy. This means that Porsche could be completely net CO2 neutral by the early 2030s. Renewables. Fuels produced with energy can contribute to this. Our icon, the 911, is particularly well suited to use with e-fuels. But so are our much-loved historical vehicles, as are all Porsche sports cars ever made. About 70 percent of them are still on the road today. Our trials with renewable fuels are going very successfully. E-fuels will make it possible to reduce fossil CO2 emissions in combustion engines by up to 90 percent. Among other things, we Porsche will use Chile’s first fuel in Mobil 1. Supercup racing cars from 2022.”
The Haru Oni project takes advantage of the right climatic conditions for wind power in the province of Magellan in southern Chile.
In the first stage, electrolyzers use wind power to split water into oxygen and green hydrogen. The CO2 is then filtered from the air and combined with green hydrogen to produce synthetic methanol, which in turn is converted into e-fuel. The pilot plant is scheduled to start production in mid-2022
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Chile has set ambitious goals as part of its national green hydrogen strategy. It plans to have an electrolyzer capacity of 5 gigawatts (GW) by 2025, which will increase to 25 GW by 2030. It aims to produce the world’s cheapest hydrogen and develop the country as a major exporter of green hydrogen and its derivatives.
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