The Canadian government has announced that it will support the development of the Nujio'qonik green hydrogen project, which will become Canada's first commercial-scale green hydrogen production facility, with the grant of CAD128m (US$95m) in debt financing. The funding will be provided by Export Development Canada (EDC) to the project developer, World Energy GH2.
Project Nujio'qonik will see the development of a complex with 1.5 GW of electrolysers on the west coast of Newfoundland and Labrador (eastern Canada). The site will be powered with electricity from over 3 GW of onshore wind farms to produce 210 kt/year of green hydrogen (or about 1.2 Mt/year of green ammonia). In its first phase, the facility will have a green ammonia output for export of some 400 kt/year.
In Canada's National Hydrogen Strategy (2020), clean hydrogen is estimated to have the potential to deliver up to 6% of the country's final energy consumption in 2030 and 30% in 2050, abating up to 45 MtCO2eq of GHG emissions in 2030 and 190 MtCO2eq in 2050.