HYDROGEN

Understanding the future energy mix

As the energy industry recognises the importance of carbon reduction and the need to work towards net zero, we must look at what the energy mix looks like. At Xodus, we see both ‘green’ and ‘blue’ hydrogen as one of the many solutions that will be a part of the energy transition. 

Clients can call on our expertise to support new and existing hydrogen developments across the project lifecycle from site selection, feasibility and planning, solar and wind energy yield analysis, conceptual design, option selection and optimisation, front end engineering design (FEED), execution and operation, right through to decommissioning. We can help ensure hydrogen developments are compliant within their jurisdiction and ahead of emerging regulations and technical advances.

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Market Insights

We have created various proprietary tools to support our clients with key project decisions. From managing a database containing details of the 1000+ hydrogen projects happening right now globally to developing an interactive levelised cost of hydrogen model to support comparison of the most important that feed into project site selection, we have the information to ensure you make the right choices.

As a global business, Xodus continues to monitor activity in global hydrogen policy developments to assist with benchmarking activity and inter regional comparisons of project competitiveness. Xodus have developed a database of global hydrogen “best in class’ policy.

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Developing the supply chain

A significant challenge for the development of hydrogen is the development of the supply chains that integrate production systems with their end-users. We are working with industry to build key supply chain networks to ensure the technical performance challenges of hydrogen, such as energy efficiency and high production costs, can be overcome.

We are technology agnostic and will always strive to support you to find the right technology or technologies for your project. Having this independence, and breadth of understanding of all the emerging technologies across this sector means we really can deliver any type of solution from developing a multi-use site to a single train demonstration project and anything in between.

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Hydrogen technologies

We are technology agnostic and will always strive to support you to find the right technology or technologies for your project. Having this independence, and breadth of understanding of all the emerging technologies across this sector means we really can deliver any type of solution from developing a multi-use site to a single train demonstration project and anything in between.  

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

Our clever thinking ensures that the most appropriate way of developing our clients’ energy resources is selected.

This means we think wide and architect projects to make sure they are buildable, bankable and consentable, pulling in the right partners to enable your project when needed. We have a structured, auditable and repeatable approach to how to develop projects that allows us to ensure that we assist our clients in developing their energy resources in line with their business drivers, while still ensuring we can be creative and problem solve along the way. We understand the value of early thinking in projects, and have examples where a very small amount of early concept optimisation has unlocked huge value for projects. We are very keen to support project developers with developing the scope needed as we fully understand the implications technical decisions can have on the commercial viability and bankability of projects

With a multi-disciplinary range of skills, our development capability provides integrated solutions for all types of development studies from complex multi-use sites integrating wind, solar and hydrogen, to one-off demonstrator sites to decarbonise one small sector of industry. We pride ourselves in being able to engage and work closely with our clients to deliver comprehensive concept and project development solutions and driving forward the very fast-moving hydrogen economy.   

Xodus is also able to leverage commercial and advisory personnel with deep industry expertise, both in terms of advisory work and real life project development. This enables us to assist with realistic and jurisdiction specific economic analysis, commercial structuring and project approvals. In a nascent industry, ensuring developments are both technically feasible, but also, bankable, is vitally important. As a result, Xodus has a strong focus on the commercial aspects of project delivery. For prior engagements Xodus’ advice h0as extended to capital structuring, optimising plant design and contracting strategy in order to manage the commercial viability of hydrogen developments.

CONSENTING AND ENVIRONMENT

Support for clients in evaluating environmental impact assessments for hydrogen developments, extending to approval strategies, lifecycle emissions assessment and regulatory compliance.

DECOMMISSIONING

With the hydrogen industry still in its infancy, it is important to bring our experience of decommissioning into the early phases of projects

We know that successful decommissioning is not just about ‘how’ to decommission, instead it is reliant on finding an approach to delivering success on all elements. Applying this upfront will always mean greater success at the end of the life of the asset.

We know that there is interest in the ability to repurpose offshore oil and gas infrastructure for Hydrogen and CO2 transport and storage (supporting blue hydrogen production). At Xodus we have a multi-specialised team of scientists, engineers and consultants that can piece all the integrated issues together to assess the potential repurposing solutions and how these integrate with decommissioning solutions as and when the time comes.

 

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