The Spanish Council of Ministers has approved today, at the proposal of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO), a Royal Decree to allocate and distribute 794 million euros in direct aid to the seven Spanish projects for the production and intensive use of hydrogen renewable energy in large-scale industrial activities chosen by the European Commission within the framework of the Hy2Use Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI). This is the second of those approved by Brussels within the strategic commitment to promote the industrial value chain of green hydrogen in the EU, from R&D to the production and use of this energy vector in the sectors of economic activity and productive ones that are more difficult to decarbonize.
Five of the beneficiary initiatives include the construction of high-capacity electrolyzers – 100 MW or more – in environments with great industrial activity, such as ports and other industrial complexes, constituting integrated clusters or valleys that will be located in locations in Andalusia, Asturias, Castilla -La Mancha, Basque Country and Murcia. They fall within the Technology Field 1 line of the IPCEI Hy2Use, aimed at promoting renewable hydrogen.
The other two Spanish proposals of the IPCEI Hy2Use will be deployed in Aragon and provide for the launch of two renewable hydrogen generation projects for use in the manufacture of fertilizers and other chemical compounds. They fall within the Technology Field 2 line, whose purpose is to facilitate the technological replacement of fossil energies in industrial sectors.
The seven IPCEI Hy2Use projects add up to 652.2 new MW of electrolysis power in aggregate and, in economic terms, will mobilize resources worth 1,141 million immediately and more than 6,000 million in total investment throughout their entire life. useful.
The distribution of the aid is carried out using the NextGenEU funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (Component 9 of the PRTR) and will be channeled by the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDAE), an organization dependent on MITECO, according to the following distribution:
1. ES46 “Ver-Amonia”. Fertinagro – IAM CAECIUS SL (EDP-Tervalis). Potencia de electrólisis: 25 MW. Aragón (Teruel). Ayuda: 53 M€.
2. ES47 “Green H2 Los Barrios”. H2 Los Barrios SA (EDP). Potencia de electrólisis: 100 MW. Andalucía (Cádiz). Ayuda: 78 M€.
3. ES48 “Asturias H2 Valley”. EDP. Potencia de electrólisis: 100 MW. Asturias (Aboño). Ayuda: 78 M€.
4. ES50 “Proyecto de Hidrógeno verde en Magallón. ENDESA – ENEL GREEN POWER. Potencia de electrólisis: 7,2 MW. Aragón (Zaragoza). Ayuda: 28 M€.
5. ES52 “Hidrógeno Renovable para la producción de amoniaco y fertilizantes verdes”. IBERDROLA. Potencia de electrólisis: Puertollano I: 20 MW y Puertollano II: 200 MW. Castilla-La Mancha (Ciudad Real). Ayuda: 242 M€.
6. ES53 “Bilbao Large Scale Electrolyzer”.
Cartagena Hydrogen Network SL (REPSOL). Potencia de electrólisis: 100 MW. País Vasco (Muskiz, Bizkaia). Ayuda: 160 M€.
7. ES54 “Cartagena Large Scale Electrolyzer”. Cartagena Hydrogen Network SL (REPSOL). Potencia de electrólisis: 100 MW. Murcia (Cartagena). Ayuda: 155 M€.
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