Puertollano (Ciudad Real) (EFE).- Iberdrola will build a large 800 megawatt green hydrogen plant in Huelva, which will be the largest in Europe and will produce up to 100,000 tons of green ammonia that will later be converted into green hydrogen for subsequent distribution.
The Chairman of Iberdrola, Ignacio Sánchez Galán, has announced the construction of this plant in Huelva to produce ammonia that will later be transported to the port of Rotterdam, during the visit of the King of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, to another green hydrogen plant in Puertollano (Ciudad Real).
The one in Puertollano, which currently has a 20-megawatt electrolyser, is now the “largest in Europe”, with a capacity of 3,000 tons of hydrogen on an industrial scale.
The King of the Netherlands has attended the signing of several agreements between Iberdrola and the companies AC Terminal and Hynetwork Services as a “definitive step in the establishment of the green hydrogen maritime corridor between Spain and the Netherlands”.
Green hydrogen maritime corridor
Sánchez Galán explained that the objective is to establish the green hydrogen maritime corridor between the two countries to complete the logistics chain and decarbonize the industry in northern Europe.
Iberdrola plans to transport green ammonia to the ACE Terminal import facilities in the port of Rotterdam, to handle and store it and then convert it into green hydrogen for final use in industry or shipping and other industries in northwestern Europe.
Transportation and distribution will take place via the Dutch national hydrogen network of Gasunie’s subsidiary Hynetwork Services in the European market to customers in the chemical, steel, refining and fertilizer industries.
These entities are established in clusters such as those in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Zeeland and Chemelot in the Netherlands and North-West Europe.
60 projects planned in the same sector
The Chairman of Iberdrola also explained that a total of 60 projects in the same sector are planned for the next few years for an amount of 3,000 million euros, half of them in Spain.
Galán has ensured that the company maintains a “firm commitment” to the Single Energy Market as the best way to promote the “enormous” investments necessary for a “safe, clean and competitive” energy industry.
The 20-megawatt green hydrogen plant that Iberdrola has in Puertollano is the first green hydrogen industrial scale in Europe and with it supplies the Fertiberia fertilizer company to produce green ammonia, with a capacity of 3,000 tons of hydrogen renewable per year.
However, Galán has specified that “it is not yet at full capacity, because the promised European IPCI funds are not yet available” which, although they are “approved” in Brussels, are not yet “confirmed by the Government of Spain”, he has specified.