Rolls-Royce Power Systems and SOWITEC to cooperate on power-to-X projects

The plants will use renewable energy sources to generate electrical power that will be used to produce hydrogen with mtu electrolysers.

According to Rolls-Royce, the green hydrogen can be used as fuel for fuel cells and hydrogen engines, to produce industrial feedstock and to produce sustainable e-fuels for marine, aviation, agriculture, mining and data centre power.

“With this project, we are actively working to reduce greenhouse gases in industry. We are convinced that with our new sustainable mtu technologies and through the cooperation with SOWITEC, we can successfully drive the expansion of Power-to-X plants,” said Andreas Görtz, president of the Sustainable Power Solutions business division at Rolls-Royce Power Systems.

Rolls-Royce solutions for for the production and use of sustainable fuels based on green hydrogen include mtu electrolysers, mtu fuel cell systems and mtu hydrogen engines, plus experience with hydrogen ecosystems and in the simulation, design and optimisation of decentralised energy supply systems.

SOWITEC, based in southern Germany, has over 4.2GW of solar and wind projects installed in South America, Europe and Asia and brings experience in developing financeable turnkey renewable energy projects, from concept to implementation, including investor sourcing.