EVE considers the commitment of the Basque Country to hydrogen will prove competitive and effective if renewable energy is increasingly deployed.
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Iñigo Ansola, General Manager of the Basque Energy Agency (EVE), has no doubts about the development of green hydrogen in the Basque Country, explaining that it will become increasingly more important as more renewable power comes on stream. In his opinion, for green hydrogen to be competitive, a lot of renewable energy needs to come on line, making the cost of electricity progressively cheaper and causing the price of hydrogen to fall. Furthermore, through R&D+i, technology needs to develop in such a way as to ensure that hydrogen can be obtained efficiently, which will subsequently bring down the costs. Lastly, projects on green hydrogen production need to be taken forward, thereby ensuring an ever greater number of consumers and ultimately generating a hydrogen market. The General Manager of EVE outlined the steps being taken in the Basque Country towards the creation of a hydrogen market, citing projects such as Petronor's 10 MW electrolyser and hydrogen refuelling stations, with a pipeline already in place to supply hydrogen from Petronor to the Abanto Technology Park, with work underway to set up more. Furthermore, Mr. Ansola highlighted the potential consumption of hydrogen in Basque industry, characterised by intensive consumption of natural gas and with certain industrial processes which are hard to abate. This is where EVE believes hydrogen will play an important role. Source: Crónica Vasca |
