Portugal selects multi-billion post-coronavirus hydrogen projects
Portugal’s government has selected more than 30 multi-billion euro hydrogen projects interested in building production units of so-called “green” energy in the country after the coronavirus pandemic.
The selection comes as Portugal prepares an application to Europe’s Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) scheme for hydrogen, part of a strategy to speed up renewable hydrogen projects in polluting sectors.
However, a group of economists and energy experts signed a manifesto last week against the government’s hydrogen strategy, warning it would cost double or triple more than to produce energy using natural gas.
In a statement late on Monday, the environment ministry said the government received 74 expressions of interest but only 37 projects, representing a total investment of around nine billion euros, passed to the next phase. More information will be required after this phase, and then the final round of projects that will be part of the application will be announced.
Reporting by Sergio Goncalves, Editing by Ed Osmond
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