Posted on 29 Mar 2022
Russia plans to build an Arctic hydrogen cluster, says the Ministry of Energy in Moscow.
The Federation Council at a meeting of the relevant committee discussed the development of alternative energy in the Arctic. It is assumed that the cluster will be located on the territory of several regions at once - the Murmansk region, the Yamalo-Nenets district and the Kamchatka Territory.
The main task is to provide the Arctic region with low-carbon electricity, Kallanish notes.
“This will be a testing ground for new, environmentally friendly technologies using hydrogen fuel and other energy sources, including renewable ones, which can eventually be transferred to other settlements located in the Arctic zone,” said the representative of the Russian Ministry of Energy Sergey Romanov. “This will accordingly improve the reliability of their energy supply.”
Senator Anatoly Shirokov says it is also necessary to develop "green" energy in the Arctic.
“The use of renewable sources like sun and wind will make it possible to get away from diesel and fuel oil, reduce the cost of electricity and reduce environmental damage,” he notes.
In November 2018, a unique wind farm with a capacity of 900 kilowatts was put into operation in the Arctic village of Tiksi in Yakutia.
“The operation of the wind farm improves the reliability of power supply to the village [and] reduces the consumption of imported diesel fuel,” says Shirokov.
Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Energy said it would need $33.4 billion to build the hydrogen industry in the country.
In 2021, the Russian government approved a concept for the development of hydrogen energy through 2050, according to which Russia intends to occupy at least 20% of the global hydrogen market by 2050 and export from 15-50 million tonnes/year.
Source:Kallanish
