Renewable HYdrogen and MEthanol Bavaria
RHYME Bavaria
WACKER is beginning the work of defossilizing its industrial production processes – with renewable hydrogen.
Global warming is one of the most urgent social and economic challenges of our time, and we can only fight it successfully by working together, pooling our innovative strength and scaling up new low-CO2 technologies. WACKER is prepared to do its part to meet Paris Agreement targets and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and through our planned production and use of green hydrogen, we intend to take decisive steps toward defossilizing our own production.
Our RHYME Bavaria goal is to narrow our carbon footprint even further. By producing green hydrogen for industrial use, we are making a vital contribution toward markedly reducing fossil raw materials in chemical processes and products.
Dr. Christian Hartel, President & CEO of Wacker Chemie AG
The Project in Numbers
20 MW
PEM electrolysis
15 kt/a
renewable methanol
22 kt/a
CO2 as a raw material
100 %
fewer CO2 emissions than the current process
The Project
Capital expenditures for the RHYME project come to €100 million, for which WACKER has submitted various funding applications, including one with the EU Innovation Fund.
If the funding is granted, construction could begin at the start of next year, with the plants potentially coming onstream before the end of 2025. In addition to funding approval, the cost of electricity will also play an important role in the success of the project. Electricity needs to cost less than 4 cents per kWh in the medium term for climate-friendly production methods such as these to be cost-effective.
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