Haría (Lanzarote) (EFE).- The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Portuguese Prime Minister, Antonio Costa, have promised this Wednesday to continue working to promote the H2Med project with the aim of turning the Iberian Peninsula into a net exporter of renewable hydrogen.
This is how it appears in the joint declaration of the 34th Spanish-Portuguese summit, in which both countries assure that they will carry out this project, specifically with regard to the section of this infrastructure between Celourico da Beira (Portugal) and Zamora.
Spain is also committed to ensuring that the H2Med corridor is used to transport only green hydrogen and that the so-called “pink hydrogen”, of nuclear origin, which France advocates, does not circulate through it.
In this sense, Sánchez pointed out in the press conference after the summit that interconnections such as H2Med are “exciting infrastructures” to which France and Germany have joined and that they contribute to the Iberian nations being “at the forefront” of renewables and to give a coherent response to mitigate climate change.
The president has described the summit as very fruitful, with the approval of eleven agreements on the digitization of justice, border schools, higher education, antimicrobial resistance or the development of cross-cultural programming, among others.
After highlighting the “immemorial Atlantic vocation” that unites both countries and the extraordinary good health of bilateral relations, Sánchez pointed out some of the issues in which there is “harmony”, such as digitization, commercial relations, migration, fiscal rules and energy market.
Both also maintain a common position in their commitment to the energy transition and in favor of decarbonization while working to reduce energy dependence.
In the field of infrastructures, the joint declaration includes a commitment to continue strengthening its electrical interconnections and celebrates the recently reached agreement between the regulators of Spain and France on the financing of the new electrical interconnection through the Bay of Biscay.
It also highlights the progress that has been made in cross-border road and rail connections and both countries are committed to promoting the actions of new infrastructure contemplated in the Trans-European Transport Network, especially the Atlantic Corridor. EFE