Name of the Project
Haru Oni CO₂ neutral fuel production plant.

Location
Punta Arenas, Chile.

Project Owner/s
Siemens Energy and Porsche, as well as Highly Innovative Fuels (HIF), Enel, ExxonMobil, Gasco and ENAP.

Project Description
The project involves the construction of the world’s first integrated commercial plant for the production of carbon dioxide- (CO₂-) neutral fuel.

A pilot plant will be built north of Punta Arenas, in Chilean Patagonia, which is expected to produce about 130 000 ℓ of eFuels in 2022.

The capacity will then be expanded in two stages to about 55-million litres by 2024 and to about 550-million litres by 2026.

Haru Oni takes advantage of the perfect climatic conditions for wind energy in Magallanes province, in southern Chile, to produce the CO₂-neutral fuel using low-cost green wind power.

In the first step, electrolysers split water into oxygen and green hydrogen using wind power. CO₂ is then filtered from the air and combined with the green hydrogen to produce synthetic methanol, which, in turn, is converted into eFuel.

Porsche, which initiated the demonstration project, will use the eFuels in its combustion engine vehicles.

Potential Job Creation
Not stated.

Capital Expenditure
Not stated.

Planned Start/End Date
The project broke ground on September 10, 2021, and is scheduled to start production in mid-2022.

Latest Developments
The necessary environmental permits have been obtained by Chilean project company HIF.

Siemens Energy has also started preparatory work for the next major commercial phase of the project.

Key Contracts, Suppliers and Consultants
None stated.

Contact Details for Project Information
Siemens Energy, Alfons Benzinger, tel +49 174 155 9447 or email alfons.benzinger@siemens-energy.com.
Porsche, Peter Gräve, tel +49 1523 911 3486 or email peter.graeve@porsche.de.