Gevo to develop hydrogen production facility in South Dakota

Nasdaq-listed Gevo will work with Zero6 Energy and Cummins on a hydrogen production facility in South Dakota, the company said on February 27.

Gevo has finalised an agreement with Zero6 for the development of a 20-MW hydrogen production facility in Lake Preston, South Dakota using Cummins electrolyzer technology. The facility, known as the Dakota Renewable Hydrogen Project (DRH), will be a part of Gevo’s Net-Zero 1 renewable hydrocarbon plant (NZ1) that is under development.

“We are excited to again be working with the Zero6 team on the development of a project that is crucial to the decarbonisation of Gevo’s liquid transportation fuels and our long-term goal of developing net-zero emissions fuel and chemical products,” said Gevo’s president & COO, Chris Ryan. “After our mutual success on the development of wind power for the defossilized electrification of our development facility in Luverne, Minnesota, we are confident that Zero6 will be an excellent partner for our Net-Zero 1 hydrocarbon production facility.”

Cummins will supply the project with an electrolyzer system comprised of four HyLYZER-1000 proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzers to produce hydrogen. When powered by renewable electricity, the hydrogen produced is green and carbon free. This green hydrogen can be stored as a compressed gas or a liquid and used as an energy-dense, clean power source.

Over 80% of the DRH hydrogen production capacity will be directly piped to the Gevo NZ1 plant to be used in the hydrocarbon refining process. The DRH will be located on the NZ1 plant property under a long-term lease agreement from Gevo.