In a statement, Tenaris said it will team with electricity provider Edison and natural gas infrastructure operator Snam on the project, which aims to build a 20-MW electrolyzer at the seamless tube facility and to modify steelmaking operations to use hydrogen. 

“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 through electrolysis, within the melting process,” the companies said. 

Tenaris said the project is part of its broader Dalmine Zero Emissions initiative, the goal of which is to integrate green hydrogen in steelmaking, from the electric arc furnace to downstream processes.