With many years’ experience with renewable energy, Claes Fredriksson - Liquid Wind Founder and CEO - has been longing for hydrogen’s potential to be realised. He is excited to see that the hydrogen discussion is now developing into focused action.

Claes proposes that hydrogen-derivates provide a scalable solution to accelerate the energy transition and drastically reduce carbon emissions.

Prior to starting his internship at Liquid Wind, Felix submitted the following essay to the Global Maritime Forum, as part of the Future Maritime Leaders Essay Competition. A knowledgable engineer, passionate about sustainability, Felix presents green methanol as a proven and readily available solution to rapidly reduce carbon emissions from the maritime industry.

The search for tomorrow’s fuel is under way in many places. Gothenburg company Liquid Wind is planning to build the world’s biggest production plant for e-methanol, which will be produced using wind power and carbon dioxide emissions from the pulp and paper industry.

Startupen Liquid Wind planerar att bygga världens första fullskaliga elektrometanolfabrik i Norrland. På längre sikt vill de bygga sex anläggningar i Sverige, som vardera producerar 45 000 ton koldioxidneutralt bränsle av vindel och återanvänd koldioxid.

The Swedish start-up recently launched their second crowdfunding campaign and have already raised 1M SEK, demonstrating the ongoing commitment to supporting sustainable solutions. Liquid Wind, in partnership with their expert Consortium, will convert waste CO2 and renewable electricity into carbon neutral fuel, eMethanol. The funding will enable Liquid Wind to accelerate their momentum in bringing eMethanol to market at scale and reducing carbon emissions from transport.

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