The project
A 40 megawatt plant, built to grow.
TIPI Canada is developing a power-to-liquid facility in British Columbia. Green hydrogen made on site is turned, with carbon dioxide from direct air capture, into eSAF, renewable diesel, and naphtha.
The plant is in development. Commercial operation of the 40 MW phase is targeted for 2030–31. A path to 100 MW sits in the mid-2030s, if demand warrants it.
Two phases
| 40 MW | 100 MW | |
|---|---|---|
| Role | First commercial plant | Expansion, if warranted |
| Timing | Commercial operation targeted 2030–31 | Mid-2030s |
| Green hydrogen | About 5,900 tonnes a year | About 14,800 tonnes a year |
| Total liquids | About 8.6 million litres a year | About 21.4 million litres a year |
| eSAF, about 55% | About 4.7 million litres a year | About 11.8 million litres a year |
| Renewable diesel, about 30% | About 2.5 million litres a year | About 6.3 million litres a year |
| Naphtha, about 15% | About 1.3 million litres a year | About 3.3 million litres a year |
Planning figures from the directional base case. Product lines are rounded. Final litres follow final engineering, the capacity factor, and the slate the offtake supports. The full case.
What sits on the site
- A green hydrogen train, powered by renewable electricity.
- Direct air capture, to supply the carbon dioxide the liquids are made from.
- A modular Fischer-Tropsch train, so the synthetic liquid can be separated into eSAF, renewable diesel, and naphtha.
- A sweet produced-fluid plant. Not a disposal site. Sweet fluid is polished for the hydrogen and eSAF train, and the fuel plant’s water returns to the same loop.
- Storage and a load-out, so fuel can leave by truck, and by rail where a customer needs it.
- A training building, for technicians, trades, drivers, and first responders.
Closed loop
Sweet produced fluid in. A salt cake out. Not a disposal facility.
The plant is designed as the first of its kind to use sweet produced fluid exclusively. The fluid is a feedstock. It is not waste accepted for injection or dumping.
Taken in
Sweet produced fluid only. Sour fluid is not the feed.
Polished
Cleaned to the point it can be used as process fluid in the hydrogen and eSAF train.
Returned
Waste fluids from the eSAF plant go back into the cycle. The loop stays closed.
What leaves
A salt cake, ready to send to a dirty-dirt site. That is the solid residual.
Where
British Columbia, Canada. The site is still being chosen. The tests are simple: enough power, enough water, and a sensible route to the people who will burn the fuel.
We have begun the conversations that decide a site, including power interconnection and land. A site will be named when it is selected.
Who the fuel is for
The first markets we are speaking with are in British Columbia and within a day’s haul: aviation fuel users, including smaller airports and helicopter operators, and diesel users who want a lower-carbon litre in the trucks and equipment they already run.
We can sell at the plant gate. We can also deliver. Green hydrogen made for the liquids can also be supplied as hydrogen where a customer wants the molecule rather than the liquid.
Offtake conversations are open. Write to info@tipicanada.com.
Credits and the rules
The plant is being developed against the low-carbon fuel rules already in force in British Columbia and Federally, and against the direction of travel toward 2030 and 2050. The final carbon intensity of each fuel is set when the pathway is certified. A lower intensity is the design aim, measured against the fossil jet, diesel, and gasoline those fuels replace.
Training on the same ground
The project includes an educational and training program: electrical, instrumentation, and pressure welding, first responder training, and hydrogen and synthetic-fuel technician training.
See the training plan