Renewable hydrogen and wind turbine developments account for two thirds of the selected files, which also include proposals in photovoltaic, battery and heat pump technology
The Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has published the preliminary allocation of 297.3 million euros in aid to 34 projects for the manufacture of equipment and components essential for the technological and industrial development of renewable energies in Spain. The provisional resolution proposal of the RENOVAL programme of the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDAE) -available here- https://tinyurl.com/5b3ezsdy – includes, for the most part, the development of electrolysers for renewable hydrogen and components for wind power, as well as initiatives in photovoltaic technology, batteries and heat pumps.
The projects provisionally selected will be located in 12 autonomous communities. The Basque Country, with six, and Castilla-La Mancha, with five, have the largest number of proposals. The rest are divided between Andalusia (4), Galicia (4), Castile and Leon (3), the Canary Islands, Catalonia, Navarre, Valencia and Asturias -with 2 each-, Extremadura and Madrid, with one project each.
By technology, almost a third of the applications, selected in competitive tendering, relate to the manufacture and assembly of electrolysers and other components for the production of green hydrogen (11). Eleven more are developments in wind energy structures and equipment. A further seven are solar photovoltaic projects, four are battery equipment and components for electrical storage, and one is for the manufacture of heat pumps. All of them comply with the guiding principle of no significant harm to the environment (DNSH).
Due to the nature of the project and the amount of aid allocated – almost 200 million – the proposal for the manufacture of silicon ingots and wafers by the company SUNWAFE SL, in Gijón, stands out in particular. Both components are essential in the production of photovoltaic panels.
Endowed with NextGenEU funds from the Recovery Plan (PRTR), this line of incentives from the IDAE will contribute to strengthening the entire innovation and knowledge value chain around renewable energies in Spain; both in mature technologies, such as solar photovoltaic and wind, and in other emerging ones, with renewable hydrogen at the forefront. Likewise, it will enable the development of new technological and industrial capacities in order to guarantee energy security, increase our competitiveness and decarbonise industry.
Press release ( translated from Spanish by DeepL)https://tinyurl.com/4m94bxmc
