Green hydrogen will be key for Spain to achieve climate neutrality and a 100% renewable electrical system by 2050

The Council of Ministers, on a proposal from the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO), has approved the "Hydrogen Road Map: a bet on renewable hydrogen..." with this planning, the Government is promoting the deployment of this sustainable energy vector, which will be key to Spain's achieving climate neutrality, with a 100% renewable electrical system, no later than 2050.

The development of renewable hydrogen will encourage the creation of innovative industrial value chains in our country, technological knowledge and sustainable employment generation, contributing to the reactivation of a high-value-added green economy.

The document, the development of which is covered by the Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC) 2021- 2030, includes 60 measures and sets national targets - aligned with the European Hydrogen Strategy - to 2030. Among others, 4 gigawatts (GW) of installed power of electropliers, at least 25% of the hydrogen consumption by the industry must be renewable and the deployment of hydrogeners, trains and heavy transport vehicles powered by this product.

The achievement of the 2030 targets reflected in the Road Map will make it possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 4.6 million tonnes of CO equivalent.₂(CO₂eq).

Finally, the Road Map anticipates a vision of what the role of hydrogen will be in the next three decades, in which Spain seeks to lead a country project towards a decarbonized economy, so as to promote the innovative value chain, the applied knowledge of industry, the development of pilot projects throughout the national territory and support to the areas of just transition.

Hydrogen is not a primary source of energy, as can be the sun or wind, but an energy vector, that is, a manufactured product that is able to store energy so that it can be gradually released. If renewable energy is used in its manufacture, the hydrogen obtained will be considered "green hydrogen" or "renewable hydrogen..." the Roadmap identifies this energy vector as a key sustainable solution for the decarbonization of the economy and the development of industrial and R & D & i value chains, thus becoming one of the economic recovery levers linked to the energy transition, along with other areas such as renewable deployment, sustainable and connected mobility or the energy rehabilitation of buildings.

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