OQ Chemicals Switches to Green Power

Climate Neutrality OQ Chemicals Switches to Green Power

2022-08-04 Source: OQ Chemicals

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On its path to becoming a climate-neutral company, OQ Chemicals is switching to electricity from renewable sources at its sites worldwide as part of its ‘reduce’ program.

The switch to green power is a building block in OQ’s global program to reduce CO2 emissions.(Source: Public Domain / Pixabay) — The switch to green power is a building block in OQ’s global program to reduce CO2 emissions.
(Source: Public Domain / Pixabay)

Chemicals company OQ announced that it has stopped generating electricity from natural gas in its power plant at the Oberhausen site. Its locations in Monheim am Rhein, in Houston, USA, and the Dutch production site in Amsterdam already use 100 % green power. At its other sites in Germany and the USA, OQ Chemicals want to initially use green power certificates (Energy Attribute Certificates - EACs) during a transitional phase. In the medium term, the company intends to use only green power at all its locations worldwide. Furthermore, OQ Chemicals examines various options for producing CO₂-neutral energy to secure demand.

Up until now, the company has ave generated part of its electricity requirements at the Oberhausen site through natural gas-fired power generation. “We will initially procure this share as well as the demand for our site in Marl with EACs, and later entirely as green power. The volume corresponds to the annual electricity consumption of 8000 German private households. In a very effective cycle, we generate the remaining electricity as well as steam and heat ourselves in our on‑site power plant via highly efficient cogeneration, using waste gases, waste streams, and by-products generated during production. We feed part of the heat into the Oberhausen district heating network of energy provider Energieversorgung Oberhausen (evo),” said Dr. Albrecht Schwerin, Chief Operating Officer at OQ Chemicals.

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