Enel Green Power Chile announces plans for Chile’s first green hydrogen project

• 3 years ago (2020-10-06)
• David Flin

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Enel Green Power Chile (EGP Chile), a subsidiary of Enel Spa , is planning to participate with Chilean power company AME and ENAP , Chile’s National Oil Company, Siemens Energy , and Porsche to install a pilot plant to produce green hydrogen. This will involve an electrolyser powered by wind energy in Cabo Negro, north of Punta Arenas, in the Magallanes Region.

The facility is scheduled to be commissioned in 2022, and it will be the first plant in Chile to generate green hydrogen.

Patagonia has good on-land wind conditions due to its proximity to Antarctica, shown by a wind resource study conducted by EGP Chile over the last two years.

Salvatore Bernabei, Global CEO of Enel Green Power and Head of Enel’s Global Power Generation business, said: “Green hydrogen can truly play a major role in the energy transition by supporting decarbonisation of hard-to-abate sectors where electrification of end uses is not an easy solution. Enel focuses on this type of hydrogen, producers via electrolysers powered by 100 per cent renewable electricity. A project like this can allow us to analyse the best technological solutions to efficiently produce hydrogen by leveraging on the Magallanes Region’s wealth of resources and robust infrastructure.”