Wärtsilä in U.S. customer collaboration to test hydrogen blended fuel as a step towards decarbonised power plant operations
Wärtsilä Corporation, Trade press release, 30 May 2022 at 3 PM EESTThe technology group Wärtsilä, in collaboration with WEC Energy Group, (WEC), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Burns & McDonnell (B&McD), have been contracted to carry out hydrogen fuel testing at the A.J. Mihm power plant in Michigan, USA. The project supports WEC’s ambition to reduce the CO2 emissions from its electric generating fleet by 60% by the end of 2025, and by 80% by the end of 2030 from 2005 levels, and to be net carbon neutral by 2050. This will be one of the first cases where hydrogen is