SectorsWind, heat pumps, hydrogenREFHYNE 2 — Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland

REFHYNE 2 — Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland

Shell Deutschland GmbH · Wesseling · DE · Wind, heat pumps, hydrogen · decarbonisation

FID taken

REFHYNE 2 — Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland is Shell Deutschland GmbH's clean tech project at Wesseling, Germany.

Why it matters

The money is committed.

Where REFHYNE 2 — Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland is

REFHYNE 2 — Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland is at Shell Energy & Chemicals Park Rheinland, Werk Wesseling. Its position is Shell Energy & Chemicals Park Rheinland, Werk Wesseling, the works it stands on, rather than the installation itself. Also in frame: 5 sites using the same technology.

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filled: operating, commissioning or under constructionhollow: announced, funded, or pausedringed: this project

50.8171° N 7.0069° EShell Energy & Chemicals Park Rheinland, Werk Wesseling

as of 2026-09-09

Status

  1. Announced
  2. Funded
  3. FID taken2024-07-29
  4. In construction
  5. Operating
  • 2024-07-29FID takenThe consortium's own record of Shell's final investment decision, dated 29 July 2024 on the page. A short history is honest here: REFHYNE 2 was in preparation for years and no primary source for the earlier events has been read.source

Technology and measures

  • Renewable hydrogen supplydemonstrationThe electrolysers, power contracts and pipelines that have to deliver hydrogen at industrial volume and at a price the iron pays for, and which no single steel site can build for itself. It stands beside CO2 transport and storage as the other thing that sector is waiting for rather than doing. IT IS NOW SHARED. Steel reached it as a dependency; the hydrogen dataset reaches it as the thing being built, so the technology carries both sectors rather than being duplicated under a second name.

Funding

No public capital recorded for this project.

Sources