Dalmine - Tenaris, Edison and Snam have signed a letter of intent to launch a project aimed at decarbonising the Tenaris steel plant in Dalmine, through the introduction of green hydrogen in some production processes.

Tenaris, Edison and Snam will collaborate to identify and implement the most suitable solutions for the production, distribution and use of green hydrogen at the Tenaris site in Dalmine, contributing their skills to invest in the best technologies available. The project is aimed at generating hydrogen and oxygen using an electrolyser of approximately 20 MW to be installed at the Dalmine plant and at adapting the steel production process by using green hydrogen instead of natural gas. The initiative may also include the construction of a storage site for the accumulation of high-pressure hydrogen and the use of oxygen, locally produced by electrolysis, within the smelting process. 2 related to steel production.

The three companies will later evaluate whether to expand the collaboration to extend the application of hydrogen to other stages of the production process. The project is part of the wider 'Dalmine Zero Emissions' initiative, launched by Tenaris together with Tenova and Techint Engineering & Construction, to integrate green hydrogen in the production of electric furnace steel and in the downstream processing of the Dalmine plant. This would be the first application of green hydrogen on an industrial scale in the steel sector in Italy.

'The 'Dalmine Zero Emissions' project', says Michele Della Briotta , President of Tenaris Europe and CEO of TenarisDalmine 'represents the most recent of the initiatives carried out by Tenaris in Italy to improve its environmental footprint, after investments and projects for the protection of 'air, energy efficiency, the reduction of the consumption of raw materials, the increase in the content of recycled material in our products, the enhancement and reuse of our by-products. With the' Dalmine Zero Emissions' project, together with qualified partners, we begin the energy transition path of the Dalmine plant, placing ourselves at the forefront of the sustainability of the steel sector'

'With this agreement, Edison started a support path to decarbonization of key industrial sectors in the national economy , thus contributing to the achievement of the energy transition targets at a national level with the PNIEC and at European level with the Green Deal' declares Nicola Monti , Edison's Chief Executive Officer. 'The renewable energy produced by our plants and the technological solutions available to us can concretely contribute to the development of a new and important national supply chain, which in the coming decades is destined to accompany the evolution of the economic and production system towards climate neutrality.

'Green hydrogen - comments Snam CEO Marco Alvera - can represent the ideal solution to decarbonise some important industrial sectors, in particular to produce zero-emission steel in the long term. Today's agreement, which sees three protagonists companies active along the entire value chain, is a first step to achieve this important goal. Thanks to its technologies and infrastructure, Snam is one of the enablers of the hydrogen supply chain to contribute to the fight against climate change and to the creation of new development opportunities, in line with national and European strategies'.

The implementation of the project will be regulated in separate agreements negotiated between the parties in compliance with the legal and regulatory framework.

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