He Green hydrogen is the one that occurs from renewable energy sources such as solar, wind or hydro-electricity. He hydrogen Renewable is often presented as an alternative to fossil hydrocarbons and as lever to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from certain sectors (industry, transport, etc.).
Nasty Producing green hydrogen is generally used an electrolyzerwhere an electrical current is led by water to separate the molecules from hydrogen and hydrogen molecules. To be classified as “green”, “carbon” or “renewable”, the electricity used must come from renewable sources.
Inform Energy Transition Outlook the DNV
DNV’s Energy Transition Outlook report provides the European hydrogen demand as an energy sector It will reach 29 MTH2/year in 2050. In this context, the consultant expects Spain hydrogen It will already be an important function in energy for industry and export in our country. Spain’s interest in the demand for hydrogen Since an energy sector in 2023 can be almost zero to overcome those of raw materials in 2040.
Spain is Expansion of hydrogen production outside their national energy needsstimulated by the vision to be the first producer of hydrogen EU Green. As Carlos Albero, Market Area Manager of DNV explains: “Although the approval of the hydrogen In the short term it will be limited, our country can increase production in accordance with its low -carbon goals in the middle of the century.
Spain already recognizes the decisive function that will perform green hydrogen In the national and international energy scene. This source will be essential to disconnect industries and sectors the direct implementation of renewable electricity is a challenge. In Spain, the combination of available resources, infrastructure and economy makes us a very attractive country.
Ask for future hydrogen
One of the most important factors of the costs of hydrogen Electricity consumption is renewable. In reality, DNV experts predict that hydrogen used for energy purposes will grow Practical from zero to almost 1.43 mt /year in 2050. It will be just in the middle of the 2030 when demand will accelerate thanks to the important initial acceptance in industrial applications that require high temperature heat, such as iron production and steel. This means 30% of the total demand for hydrogen, A share that will increase to almost half (47%) in the middle of the century.
And although the consultant does not expect Spain to achieve the ambitious goal to have 12 GW by 2030 Green hydrogen production due to delays of implantationThe uncertainties of the market and currently high costs, it does expect that hydrogen capacity will increase rapidly in Spain, to reach 35 GW in 2050.
Green hydrogen in transport
Another point at which the approval of Hydrogen will have a good reception in the air transport sector And maritime. According to DNV, in the middle of the century, the demand for hydrogen Purely in transport, 3% of the total demand will entail, while the ammonia will represent another 3% and synthetic fuels will hit 7%. And the initial and posterior adoption in transport mainly implies derived from the hydrogensuch as ammonia and synthetic fuels or sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), instead of hydrogen Puro.
Carlos Albero is currently points out: “Current production in volume of hydrogen In Spain, almost completely as a raw material, it depends on traditional production routes based on fossil, especially renovated natural gas. Although, given the lower demand for raw material and the gradual increase in demand for hydrogen For energy, the composition of the production routes of hydrogen In Spain it will change much from here to 2050, so that the hydrogen For energy purposes Only produce from renewable energy sources.“
Spain: EU
“Exports to other European countries is another essential part of the Spanish strategy of hydrogen vegetables. He Competitive renewable potential in the country can make export volumes possible Even greater, provided that there is a significant expansion of solar and wind capacity and a solid support infrastructure is available to become the first pool of hydrogen EU Green, “says Carlos Albero.
This is how DNV expects that our country will produce nearly 3.5 MT in 2050 hydrogen, Both for raw material and for energy. At the same time, the consultant is of the opinion that the demand for hydrogen And the derivatives will be only 2 MT by that time. This means that Spain will probably benefit from its cost competition capacity to achieve his ambition Become an important hydrogen expansion to Europe in 2040According to experts in the middle of the century 1,7 mt/year reached in the middle of the century.
For Europe can benefit from Spanish green hydrogen, DNV emphasizes that the development of the European Trunk Network from Hydrogen It will be crucial, planned with the large corridors, such as those who walk through the Cantabrian coast, the Ebro valley, the Levante axis and that of the Vía de la Plata.
Moreover, the Collaboration up to three between Spain, France and Portugal for the Marino H2Med Corridorwill allow the Iberian peninsula to unite with Europe, so that the export of hydrogen low costs of local origin on the entire continent, as well as the possibility to transport hydrogen Affordably produced in North Africa for consumers from Central Europe, thus accelerates the establishment of a competing hydrogen market in Spain and Europe.