THYSSENKRUPP STEEL AND STEAG AGREE ON GREEN HYDROGEN SUPPLY

HydrOxy Walsum, STEAG’s hydrogen project in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), is taking shape. Thyssenkrupp Steel and STEAG have agreed on the supply of green hydrogen, a prerequisite for climate-neutral steel production.

This operation is an important milestone in Thyssenkrupp Steel’s transformation path. The favorable feasibility study will be carried out at the water electrolysis plant with a capacity of up to 520 megawatts conducted jointly by the project partners STEAG and thyssenkrupp Steel, which will involve the supply of hydrogen and oxygen to the Thyssenkrupp Steel plant in Duisburg from the neighboring STEAG plant in Walsum.

In this way, the multinational Thyssenkrupp Steel intends to use hydrogen to achieve significant CO2 reductions in hot metal production in the future. “Our goal is to make ThyssenKrupp Steel climate neutral by 2045. In an intermediate step, we intend to significantly reduce our emissions by 30 percent by 2030,” maintains Marie Jaroni, head of decarbonization at ThyssenKrupp Steel. STEAG’s planned water electrolysis plant in Walsum will make an important contribution to achieving these ambitious goals. Oxygen, which is automatically produced as a by-product in the production of synthetic hydrogen, will also be used as a process gas in steel production.

The use of climate-neutral hydrogen marks an important milestone on the company’s path toward climate-neutral steel production. To achieve this goal, ThyssenKrupp Steel will replace the coal-fired blast furnace route with direct reduction plants where iron ores are reduced using hydrogen instead of coal. Hydrogen supply to ThyssenKrupp Steel is scheduled to begin in 2025.