Worley, ABB and IBM have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on helping energy companies build and operate commercial-scale green hydrogen facilities more efficiently.
The planned three-party collaboration aims to develop an integrated, digitally enabled solution for facility owners to build green hydrogen assets more quickly, cheaply, and safely, and operate them more efficiently.
Green hydrogen is a form of clean energy made from water through electrolysis, which is powered by renewable energy.
While many industries want to invest in green hydrogen, high production costs pose a barrier to driving market adoption and achieving scale over natural gas or blue hydrogen, the partners stated.
In addition, production facilities require an accessible and abundant renewable energy supply.
Worley, ABB and IBM said their collaboration aims to help customers address these challenges by scaling up technologies and reducing production costs to enable green hydrogen to become more widely used.
Under the collaboration, Worley will provide engineering, procurement, and construction expertise across all stages of the project.
ABB will provide offerings for electrical infrastructure, automation, operations digitalisation and optimisation, as well as energy management.
IBM will provide systems integration services, as well as data framework and management solutions.
Together, the three parties will provide operations and maintenance services, leveraging their combined digital expertise.
“This collaboration aims to help turn net-zero solutions into reality. It will build on the key learnings of our ground-breaking Ambition to Reality paper, written in collaboration with Princeton University, USA.
“By fast-tracking and standardizing how we engineer-design-operate, this collaboration is expected to reduce the levelised cost of green hydrogen and help our customers to decarbonise their operations further,” said Chris Gill (pictured, left), senior vice president of low-carbon hydrogen at Worley.
“Complementing our partners expertise with our electrification, automation and digital solutions, we will aim to enable lower production costs through smart, safe and sustainable operations,” said Bruno Roche (pictured, right), vice president, energy transition at ABB Energy Industries.