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Pei: Decarbonizing SSAB requires 10% of Sweden's total electricity consumption

Martin Pei · The Big Switch: The Race to Green Steel · Aug 31, 2022 · at 14:29

SSAB CTO Martin Pei discusses the massive power requirements needed to produce enough green hydrogen to replace coal in Swedish steel manufacturing.

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“When I started to explain that we want to replace coal that we use, and we want to use electricity, it's going to take about 10% of Sweden's total electricity consumption.”

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The claim, plainly

Replacing the coal used in SSAB's steelmaking process with electricity-based hydrogen requires about 10% of Sweden's total electricity consumption.

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Assessment

Technical documentation and joint publications from HYBRIT consortium partners (SSAB, LKAB, and Vattenfall), as well as Swedish Energy Agency documentation, establish that transitioning SSAB's domestic steel production from blast furnaces to hydrogen-based direct reduction requires approximately 15 TWh of electricity annually. Against Sweden's baseline annual electricity consumption of approximately 137 to 140 TWh, this requirement represents approximately 10.7% to 11.0% of national consumption, directly matching Martin Pei's estimate of 'about 10%'.

Joint HYBRIT project release by SSAB, LKAB, and Vattenfall (April 7, 2021) states replacing coal with hydrogen-based direct reduction at SSAB's production volume requires ~15 TWh of electricity per year.
Energimyndigheten and Svenska kraftnät baseline statistics place Sweden's total annual electricity consumption at approximately 130–140 TWh (e.g., ~137 TWh in 2022).
15 TWh represents approximately 10.7% to 11.0% of Sweden's total annual electricity consumption.

Checked against

[1] hybritdevelopment.se [2] mdpi.com [3] spglobal.com [4] gmk.center [5] rifs-potsdam.de [6] skgs.org [7] hybritdevelopment.se [8] vattenfall.com

HYBRIT SSAB electricity consumption TWh Sweden percent HYBRIT electricity demand 15 TWh Sweden total consumption Sweden total electricity consumption TWh 2021 2022

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