REG-TotalEnergies SE Germany: TotalEnergies and RWE Join Forces on Green Hydrogen to Decarbonize the Leuna Refinery

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12/03/2025 10:15

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Germany: TotalEnergies and RWE Join Forces on Green Hydrogen to Decarbonize
the Leuna Refinery


 * 30,000 tons a year of green hydrogen supplied to TotalEnergies’ Leuna
refinery

 * 300,000 tons a year of CO(2) emissions prevented at the Leuna refinery

 * The largest green hydrogen contract with an electrolyzer in Germany

 

In line with its 2030 ambition to decarbonize the hydrogen used in its
European refineries, TotalEnergies has signed an agreement with the German
developer RWE to supply 30,000 tons a year of green hydrogen to the German
Leuna refinery for fifteen years, beginning in 2030.

The green hydrogen will be produced by a 300 MW electrolyzer, built and
operated by RWE in Lingen. Green hydrogen storage will be provided locally.
The green hydrogen will be delivered by a 600 km pipeline to the gates of the
refinery and will prevent the site’s emission of some 300,000 tons of CO(2)
beginning in 2030. This is the largest quantity of green hydrogen ever
contracted from an electrolyzer in Germany.

“We are looking forward to developing further our partnership with RWE, our
partner in several offshore wind projects in Germany and the Netherlands. This
long-term green contract for green hydrogen marks an important milestone to
reducing our CO(2) emissions at our Leuna refinery. It will be made possible
thanks to the completion of the H2 backbone by German authorities and their
efficient support to green H2 customers like our Leuna refinery,” said
Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies.

“We are proud to have secured the first long-term offtake agreement for
green hydrogen of this size with TotalEnergies in Germany. Six months after
the investment decision for the construction of the 300-megawatt electrolysis
plant in Lingen, we have acquired an important anchor customer in
TotalEnergies. This shows that hydrogen works with the right incentives for
customers,” said Markus Krebber, Chief Executive Officer of RWE.

TotalEnergies and the decarbonization of its European refineries

TotalEnergies is committed to reducing the carbon footprint of producing,
converting and supplying energy to its customers. One of the pathways
identified by the Company is using low-carbon hydrogen to decarbonize its
European refineries, a move that should help reduce its annual CO(2) emissions
by around three million tons by 2030. In order to fully decarbonize the
hydrogen the Company uses in its European refineries, it has already
contracted over 200,000 tons of various forms of green and renewable hydrogen
a year for its sites at La Mède
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energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and
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people as possible with energy that is more reliable, more affordable and more
sustainable. Active in about 120 countries, TotalEnergies places
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