Air Liquide (AL) recently announces an investment of 125 million euros to build the first world-scale ASU for oxygen production with an energy storage system that helps facilitate more renewable energy on the electricity grid due to its grid stabilizing capability.

This highly efficient plant, with circa 10% less electricity consumption, will have a production capacity of 2,200 tons of oxygen per day, and will be built in Port of Moerdijk in the Netherlands. The ASU, is planned to be operational in 2022, will produce oxygen, nitrogen, and argon for industrial, food,