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Enel Green Power Chile announces plans for Chile’s first green hydrogen project
- 4 years ago (2020-10-06)
- David Flin
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.
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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.”