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The "Haru Oni" power-to-X project is the first international green hydrogen project to receive funding from the stimulus package by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) as part of the National Hydrogen Strategy (NWS). A funding order for €8.23mln was handed over to Siemens Energy at the beginning of December 2020. Siemens Energy is developing the world’s first integrated commercial installation for the production of climate-neutral fuel near the Patagonian city of Punta Arenas in the south of Chile. The synthetic fuel (eFuel) is to be made from hydrogen produced using wind power and the CO2 captured from the air. In addition to Siemens Energy, other international partners are involved in the project, including Germany's Porsche AG as a customer for the synthetic fuel.