They recently opened a new massive methane cracker plant in Antwerp. Hope to see it go out of business in my lifetime.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2026
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methane cracker? that's a very unusual unit that outputs hydrogen and carbon. i could find info about opening of ethane cracker in 2025, but that's for plastics, next to shutdown of another similar unit
This will continue as long as there are CCGTs used as baseload, then it will drop as CCGTs (and biomass + waste burners) will cover the gaps