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The Spanish government approved a new goal today to install 12GW of electrolytic cells to produce green hydrogen by 2030,as part of its latest updated National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan(PNIEC)for 2023-2030.
The previous target set in Spain’s 2020 Renewable Hydrogen Roadmap was 4GW.
The new document approved by the Cabinet this morning also includes the goal of 74%of hydrogen used in industry to be green by 2030.This is far higher than the 42%figure agreed upon by EU member states in the Renewable Energy Directive last year.
The latest PNIEC draft released last year includes a green hydrogen target of 11 GW by 2030.
Other targets in the updated PNIEC include installing 160GW of renewable energy by 2030,higher than PNIEC’s 113GW from 2021-2030.By the end of 2023,Spain had installed 77.4GW of renewable energy.
The adoption of the updated PNIEC will be one of the last official actions of Teresa Ribera,Minister of Ecological Transformation and Population Challenge.She will soon join the European Commission as the executive vice president of clean,fair and competitive transformation,and is also the deputy of Ursula von der Leyen,President of the European Commission.
The actual PNIEC document does not seem to have been publicly released-all of the above figures are included in PNIEC’s environmental assessment,which was published on Monday in the official national journal of the Spanish government.
The environmental assessment conducted by the General Administration of Quality and Environmental Assessment refutes concerns that green hydrogen production will increase water consumption in this semi-arid country.
Green hydrogen is the technology with the least water consumption among all types of clean hydrogen,therefore,replacing grey hydrogen with renewable hydrogen represents water conservation,”the document states.