Consumption, green work, finally.
The end use the corridor ultimately serves, marine bunkering, chemical feedstock, power-sector co-firing, or hydrogen distribution. Left open because demand defines it, not supply.
Where electrons become work.
This is the end of the chain, the point where the molecule is finally used: burned as marine bunker fuel, fed into a chemical process, co-fired for power, or distributed as hydrogen. It is where the green electrons generated at the origin become green work at the destination, which is the entire purpose of the corridor.
The node is open because demand defines it, and demand defines everything else. What the corridor ultimately serves is not a downstream detail, it sets the product (ammonia or hydrogen), the destination conversion (cracker or none), and the offtake contract structure that underwrites the project finance. The chain is built supply-first to prove the architecture, but in a real transaction this node comes first: a buyer with a demand defines the corridor backward from here. That is why it is left open, not because it is unimportant, but because it is the buyer's to specify.
What defines the node.
| Offtake case | Product drawn | Shapes upstream |
|---|---|---|
| Marine bunkering | Ammonia / methanol | No cracker; fuel used directly |
| Chemical feedstock | Ammonia / methanol | No cracker; molecule is the product |
| Power co-firing | Ammonia | No cracker; combusted for electricity |
| Hydrogen distribution | Hydrogen | Requires the cracker node (07) |
What the node determines.
Demand defines the corridor.
The chain reads left to right, electrons to work, but the economics run the other way. The offtake case at this node determines whether the corridor ships ammonia or hydrogen, whether the cracker is built, and what contract structure the lenders rely on. Change the buyer, and much of the chain upstream changes with it.
The consumption node is open because it is the buyer's to define, and it is the most consequential node in the chain. A marine-bunkering offtaker and a hydrogen distributor imply different products, different destination conversion, and different economics all the way back to production. This is why Levante's stance is demand-led: the corridor is designed backward from a real buyer's need, not forward from an assumed market. When this node is filled, the open cracker node and the product choices upstream resolve with it.
Where the numbers come from.
This node is open. No single case is modelled because the offtake is the buyer's to define, and each case, bunkering, feedstock, power, hydrogen, implies a different corridor upstream.
When defined, it determines: the product shipped, whether the destination cracker node (07) is built, and the offtake contract that underwrites the project finance.
Open node: the case is demand-led. It is filled by a real buyer, and it resolves the product and conversion choices upstream when it is.
How this node stands alone.
The node's interface is fuel or hydrogen in, end use out. It is the one node a buyer brings rather than a developer builds, and it anchors the corridor's economics from the demand side.