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eas or plants and factories far from the port,” said Castelein, tion of modalities – Castelein simply says “either we invest, but also includes building a carbon capture storage facility we facilitate, we allocate land, we build quay walls or we part- that “can collect the carbon, deliver it to the fence, and take it ner in these processes. In the case of modalities, “we are a through the port to an offshore depleted gas ? eld where it is co-investor in a facility that supplies green powered battery stored for eternity.” packs to inland vessels, where they can take onboard a fully

The second pillar is about the energy system, focused main- charged battery, sail point-to-point in a corridor, of? oad the ly on electri? cation and hydrogen. A few months ago the port discharged batter, take on a fully charged battery and continue announced that Shell will build the largest (200MW) electro- the journey.” lyzer in the world, with the expectation that by 2030 it will In total Castelein estimates that port is involved in “well have 1.2 gigawatts of electrolyzed capacity installed. The plan over 50 or so projects that we operate, we run, partner and for this extends far beyond the port’s walls, extending the hy- co-invest in.” drogen infrastructure to the southern parts of the Netherlands “If you sail through the port, you can see the spades in the and into Germany to supply industrial clusters in Germany ground, you can see the buildings being erected; it’s real, it’s with green hydrogen, with CO2 taken back in return to be live, it’s coming together,” said Castelein, who laments that stored in that same depleted ? eld. one of the downsides of his job is the tremendous amount of

The circularity pillar is multi-faceted, including a waste to time it can take to evolve from good idea to built solution. But chemicals facility, a recycling facility for lithium ion batteries as with Castelein at the helm, all roads lead to a 55% reduction in well as the construction of a sustainable aviation fuel facilities. emissions by 2030, and carbon neutral by 2050. “For the scale

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