Acciona Energia, Enagas, Cemex and IDAE have inaugurated the Power to Green Hydrogen Mallorca project, which is the first industrial renewable hydrogen plant in Spain.
Industrial production of renewable hydrogen at the plant will be carried out gradually and as the infrastructure and equipment for consumption become available.
The project’s electrolyser has already completed technical commissioning tests.
Once it is fully operational when the deployment of the infrastructure for its consumption is completed, it will have a production of at least 300 tonnes of renewable hydrogen a year.
The renewable electricity needed to power the electrolyzer will be guaranteed by the 8.5MW Lloseta and 5.85MW Petra solar farms.
The GreenH2Chain platform, developed by Acciona Energía, will show through blockchain technology that the hydrogen obtained in the plant is 100% renewable.
The project is part of the EU-subsidised Green Hysland initiative.
Green Hysland, coordinated by Enagas, supports the deployment of the necessary infrastructure to build a renewable hydrogen ecosystem on the island of Mallorca.
Once the green hydrogen ecosystem in Mallorca is fully implemented, the goal is to reduce the island’s CO2 emissions by up to 21,000 tonnes a year.
Part of the green hydrogen will be transported through the first hydroduct in Spain, which Redexis will build on the island, and which can be injected into the natural gas distribution network that the company has in Palma de Mallorca.
Green hydrogen will have multiple applications on the island of Mallorca such as the supply of clean fuel to bus fleets, the generation of heat and electrical energy for commercial and public buildings and the creation of a supply station.
The Iberostar hotel group will replace part of its natural gas consumption with renewable hydrogen.
Acciona president Jose Manuel Entrecanales said: “Green hydrogen is an industrial and economic opportunity for Spain and a fundamental piece in the global energy transition.
“Public-private collaboration in this project is a reference model of how to take advantage of this opportunity.
“The Mallorca project will contribute to the technological maturity of renewable hydrogen, essential to make a qualitative leap in decarbonisation.”
Enaga chief executive Arturo Gonzalo said: “In the current global context, a project like Power to Green Hydrogen Mallorca makes more sense than ever as an example of public-private collaboration to contribute to decarbonisation and a just transition, and also to reduce energy dependence.
“The production in Mallorca of the first renewable hydrogen molecules marks a milestone in Spain and Europe as a pioneering project of the Green Hysland initiative.”