Enagás has been able to confirm that 206 companies are interested in developing up to 650 green hydrogen projects in Spain by 2030, according to the result of the call for interest that the gas and hydrogen infrastructure manager launched last September.
In total, these projects could provide an annual production of 7.9 million tons by 2030 and 8.7 million in 2040. Regarding consumption, they contemplate 1.3 million tons in 2030 and 1.5 million tons in 2040. That is, Spain could have an electrolysis capacity (the technical process to generate green hydrogen from renewable electricity) of 74.3 gigawatts (GW) in 2030 and 84.3 GW in 2040.
“This result is very much in line with the green hydrogen objectives that have been set in the latest update of the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (Pniec) and with the projects that Enagás has presented to be financed by the European Union,” said Arturo Gonzalo, CEO of Enagás, during the celebration of the 2nd Enagás Hydrogen Day, this Wednesday in Madrid.
An event that was also attended by the third vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, who assured that “the development of green hydrogen is a train that Spain should not miss either as a country or as an industrial opportunity.” .
The location of the centers in which the demand for green hydrogen is concentrated in Spain has confirmed the success of the design of the national network infrastructure of H2Med (the hydrogen pipeline that will connect Portugal with France with an exit to the sea in Barcelona) designed by Enagás and has also identified other centers that would justify a possible expansion in Andalusia towards the Almería area, as well as in Castilla-La Mancha and the south of Madrid, in addition to a connection in Castilla y León that connects Zamora with La Rioja.
Along with the interest in hydrogen, Enagás has tested the interest in other key molecules for the renewable transition such as ammonia and CO₂ capture, which has identified the interest in producing 5 tons per year of ammonia and 41 companies interested in transport infrastructure of around 4 million tons per year.
Regarding CO₂ capture, 37 companies interested in carbon capture and 53 interested in infrastructure have been registered, which in total would mean a capture of 10.4 million tons of CO₂ per year.
