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Cummins has been expanding its footprint across the world with its hydrogen technology, for a sustainable present and the future. (Image source: Adobe Stock)

In the second MENA Energy meet, Cummins has decided to deploy large-scale hydrogen projects in MENA region, reinforced by its global presence, mass production facilities, and the active participation in different global energy councils


The recently conducted second MENA Energy Meet gave a collaborative platform for global and regional energy stakeholders, leading industry experts, policymakers, and government officials to discuss approaches and solutions aimed at shaping the future of the energy sector. 

Cummins Arabia, a part of this significant consortium, was represented by Alan D Kneisz, global business development director, hydrogen and fuel cell, Cummins, who elucidated the company’s energy transition endeavor. As part of his presentation, he explained how Cummins has been expanding its footprint across the world with its hydrogen technology, for a sustainable present and the future. 

Alan shed light on how the demand for fossil fuels might decrease by 2030, giving rise to hydrogen energy demands, and how the MENA region is poised to become a world leader in fulfilling the same. He expounded on the region’s potential because of the captive markets both locally and in Europe, having large demands of Green Hydrogen with aggressive decarbonisation targets. 

Showcasing the highlights of Cummins global leadership in electrolysis and fuel cell projects and its green hydrogen ecosystem, the presentation highlights also encapsulated the Cummins product line - for both stationary and mobility applications, and the worlds most advanced fuel cell modules. 

The audience was led through the benefits of the advent of the hydrogen ecosystem - leading to zero emissions, and as a low-cost alternative over CCUS. The focus was also on ease of adoption, achieved easily through zero-emission funding for carbon reduction in cities and with local partnerships. Touching upon the much debated topic of scalability, Alan justified how Cummins is well placed to achieve the same for hydrogen and fuel cells production and deployment in the MENA region.

He concluded by stressing on the economic ability of Cummins to deploy large-scale hydrogen projects, reinforced by its global presence, mass production facilities, and the active participation in different global energy councils (such as hydrogen councils) that makes the company a trusted player to meet the needs of the growing hydrogen economy.

To sum up, the 2nd Edition MENA Energy Meet was an abode of knowledge where different speakers shared their expert views on the trends and developments in the energy sector, and highlighted valuable insights into the capability and power of hydrogen to shape its future.

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The project is a collaboration between Siemens Energy (Germany), Porsche (Germany) and Highly Innovate Fuels or HIF (Chile). 

It will be the worlds first integrated commercial plant for producing climate-neutral fuel from wind and water with the purpose of decarbonising the transport sector.

During the pilot phase, the Haru Oni project aims to produce 130,000 litres of e-fuels by 2022. In two proceeding phases, the capacity is planned to be increased to around 55 million litres of e-fuels per year by 2024 and to around 550 million litres of e-fuels by 2026. The project was launched on September 10, 2021 with a ground breaking ceremony joined by the Chilean energy minister.

By the end of this year, the main wind turbine components – a nacelle, blades and tower sections – are to be transported from multiple ports in China and delivered in one lot as part charter to Punta Arenas, Chile. In addition, there will be various container and flat-rack transports from Europe. The longest components are the three blades just over 65m in the length and the heaviest part is the nacelle at nearly 77 tonnes.

Torsten Dubsky, project director for Haru Oni at Siemens Energy, stated, "Renewable energy will no longer be produced only where it is needed, but where natural resources like wind and sun are available on a massive scale. So new supply chains are going to arise all over the world to carry renewable energy from one region to another. To guarantee these infrastructures, experienced project logistics support is needed and we are excited that Kuehne+Nagel is partnering with us for the Haru Oni Pilot Project."

Mustafa Sener, global head of project logistics at Kuehne+Nagel, said, "As an industry leader, we are not only committed to reducing our contribution to global CO2 emissions through our net zero carbon programme. We also want to actively reduce CO2 emissions in transport. As such, Kuehne+Nagel is particularly proud to be a partner in one of the most prestigious projects in pursuit of meeting the EU 2030 climate targets."

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