Posted on 29 Jun 2022
Russia will have to revise its hydrogen strategy due to the paused cooperation with European states, says Russian energy minister Nikolai Shulginov.
“The development of hydrogen energy is still important for Russia,” he said in an interview with the Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta published on the ministry’s web site. “However, it was originally focused on cooperation with European states. In the near future, it will most likely not be possible to resume it, so we will have to look for other ways out.”
According to him, Russian hydrogen energy can develop due to domestic demand, Kallanish notes.
“Future hydrogen exports can be targeted at the countries of the Asia-Pacific region,” the minister noted. “We are still continuing to work in the field of hydrogen energy, R&D is developing new technologies, and in the future, I am sure, we will return to this topic in practical terms, but at a new stage of development.”
Last year it was reported that in 2035 the first nuclear power plant for hydrogen production could be put into operation in Russia, but this was before the new sanctions against Russia after it invaded Ukraine. The technical project was planned to be completed in 2023, to obtain a license in 2025, and to carry out the physical launch of the first unit of the station in 2032.
Earlier, Rosnano announced that Russia has prepared a new program for the development of hydrogen energy through 2050 and will be published in the coming months.
The draft program developed earlier by the Energy ministry assumed that Russia would concentrate its efforts on exporting hydrogen to China, Japan, South Korea and Germany. By 2030, it was planned to supply these countries with 2.2 million tonnes/year of hydrogen.
Potential markets are Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, but the cost of transportation there is high, and equipment and technologies can be exported to these countries.
Source:Kallanish
