Shell opens solar park at Shell Moerdijk chemicals site in the Netherlands
Today Shell officially opened one of the largest solar parks in the Netherlands at the Shell Moerdijk Chemical Plant. With 76,000 panels, the solar park has a peak capacity of 27 megawatts. The generated solar energy will be used to help power operations at Shell Moerdijk.
Today Shell officially opened its solar park at the Shell Moerdijk Chemical Plant. With 76,000 panels, the solar park has a peak capacity of 27 megawatts, equivalent to the energy consumption of 9,000 Dutch households. The generated solar energy will be used to help power operations at Shell Moerdijk.
鈥淒eveloping this solar power plant in Moerdijk fits within Shell鈥檚 ambition to play an active role in the Dutch energy transition,鈥� says Marjan van Loon, president-director Shell Nederland. 鈥淲e are eager to limit emissions through energy efficiency improvements of our processes and investments in new energy activities. To accelerate energy transition, it is important that we align our activities to the ideas and initiatives in society. We know dialogue and collaboration is the key to success.鈥�
Robin Mooldijk, Executive Vice President for Manufacturing at Shell said: 鈥淎t all Shell鈥檚 oil refineries and chemicals plants we are working to improve utilisation, energy efficiency and carbon intensity. Alongside process improvements and equipment upgrades, we also need vision and imagination. This solar park, now operational and helping to power our Moerdijk chemicals plant, is part of that.鈥�
Other examples of Shell鈥檚 work in the Netherlands on the energy transition include offshore wind in the North Sea, electric mobility at our retail sites and .
According to Marjan van Loon, 鈥淢aking the energy transition work is not a question of just one solution, but a combination of measures. More will follow in the coming years, one after the other.鈥�
Shell opens solar park at Shell moerdijk chemicals site in the netherlands
Notes to editors
- Energy efficiency improvements at Shell refineries and chemical plans include combined heat and power units, heat integration systems and waste gas recovery systems.
- At Rheinland refinery we are progressing a hydrogen electrolysis plant. When powered by renewable electricity, the green hydrogen will help reduce the carbon intensity of the site. A unit of this kind allows Shell to help stabilise the public power grid, thereby facilitating more use of renewable electricity in Germany.
- Shell鈥檚 new cracker at CSPC in China features modern, energy-efficient equipment, as does Shell鈥檚 Pennsylvania chemicals project that is under construction in the US.
- Shell鈥檚 pioneering carbon capture and storage project at the Scotford upgrader that provides feedstock for the integrated Scotford refinery and chemicals manufacturing site, has safely captured and stored more than 4 million tonnes of CO2 since starting up in 2015.
