The macroproject, which will be financed up to 50% by European funds, will make it possible to bring hydrogen obtained from renewable energies to the EU.
Euskaraz irakurri: Germanyk bat egin du H2Med hidrozubi proiektuarekin; Spain, Frantzia and Portugalekin battery
Germany will join to the energy interconnection project “H2Med”the first hydroduct that will connect the Iberian Peninsula with the rest of Europe and that will be operational in 2030.
“We have decided to extend ‘H2Med’, which thanks to European funds unites Portugal, Spain and Franceto Germany, which will be a partner in the infrastructure of this project”, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the act that culminated the Franco-German Summit to shelve the tensions between Paris and Berlin in 2022.
Macron has indicated that there is “a will” to promote green hydrogen at the European level.
France, Spain and Portugal had agreed at a Euro-Mediterranean summit in Alicante on December 9, the construction of this submarine hydroduct between Barcelona and Marseille.
This agreement will allow the transport of green hydrogen throughout Europe in a context of searching for alternatives to polluting energy sources, in moments of crisis due to the war in Ukraine.
The project includes two cross-border infrastructures, one between Celorico daBeira (Portugal) and Zamora, and another submarine, between Barcelona and Marseille, as well as two trunk axes.
Hydrogen map of the Iberian Peninsula.
The macroproject, which will be financed up to 50% by European funds, will make it possible to bring hydrogen obtained from renewable energies to the EU.
In a statement, the Spanish Government also announced that Germany will join the project and said that “H2Med will be operational in 2030 and is expected to be capable of transporting 2 million tons of green hydrogen per year from Spain, which will represent 10 % of the total consumed by the EU”.
“In 2050 it is estimated that 20% of all energy in Europe will be renewable hydrogen”, has indicated the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge of Spain.
Source: Eitb
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