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Green H2 Catalan strategy

Sovereignty, landscape and competitiveness

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Assembly of European Regions

May, 17th Brussels

Generalitat de Catalunya

Direcció General d’Energia, Mines i Seguretat Industrial

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1. Climate neutrality

To fulfil

objectives

2. Energy transition

To increase resilience

3. Economic recovery

To cope with the crisis

4. Regional balance

Balanced development

HOW

The role of renewable hydrogen

WHY

Main challenges facing Catalonia

  • Substitution of grey H2 with renewable H2
  • Decarbonization: industry, mobility, residential
  • Energy storage potential
  • Added value for renewable energy and wastes
  • Guarantee the competitiveness of major sectors
  • Adaptation of sectors and new opportunities
  • Areas of just transition (e.g. Baix Ebre - nuclear county)
  • Intraregional balance in the hydrogen era develop.

Catalonia:

250 t/day grey H2 ≈ 2.000 t/day CO2

Boost of renewables and energy integration

Chemical sector, natural gas big users, new H2-industries..

Closure of nuclear plants

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Background: green hydrogen?

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105 companies 373,5M€ 810 jobs 50,5% SMEs Less 10 yo

Background: current assets

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Production

Transformation

Transport, storage & infraestructure

Fuel cells

End users

Auxiliary industry

Engineering

Ecosystem: what do we have

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Ecosystem

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Tech and research centers

Universities & education

Associations

Institutions & public admin

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Objective: lobby and policy making

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Objective: Expand collaboration of Catalan H2 ecosystem

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Tools: Hydrogen Valley of Catalonia

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Coordinated by:

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COMPANIES

128

INSTITUTIONAL AND BUSINESS PROMOTERS

HYDROGEN R&D ALLIANCE

PUBLIC ENTITIES

ASSOCIATIONS

AND CLUSTERS

TRAINING, RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRES

188 organizations are members of the Valley (May 2022)

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VALLEY ACTORS

GENERAL COORDINATION

TECHNICAL COORDINATION

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New spin off and start up hydrogen companies

Technological development of first prototypes

Joining forces to boost R&D&I and to bring it into industrial projects, mobility, etc.

Industrial companies positioning in hydrogen value chain manufacture

Specialised hydrogen training in all education levels

Connections and collaborations in Spain and internationally

Hydrogen public awareness initiatives

WHAT IS EMERGING – MAY 2022

Some hydrogen FDI (Foreign direct investments) in chemical sector (in project)

Large-scale deployment of renewable hydrogen in chemical industry as a feedstock-green chemistry

Sustainable hydrogen mobility in metropolitan areas and heavy transport corridors

Hydrogen and circular economy initiatives

Hydrogen as natural gas substitute in intensive user industries

Initial steps in H2 use in ports and large infrastructures to be decarbonized

H2

Deployment

H2

RDI and manufacture

H2

Cross-cutting activities

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HYDROGEN DEPLOYMENT

NON-LOCALIZED:

19 Industrial projects

15 Mobility projects

Industrial projects H2 production ≈ 102,000 t/y*

50% Tarragona large-scale Hub

20% Barcelona Hub

30 % distributed

Installed electrolysis ≈ 600 MW

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*8,000 t/y additional in mobility projects

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Large-scale hydrogen hub in Tarragona area mainly associated to the petrochemical complex

  • Grey hydrogen substitution and green chemistry and mobility uses
  • Large mutualized hydrogen production

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Industrial and mobility hydrogen hub in Barcelona Metropolitan Area

Small scale hydrogen industrial (ex. waste to X) and mobility initiatives around the region

Hydrogen production projects with demand not stablished yet

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FCEV manufacturing sector:

Vehicles (bus, truck,…), Retrofitting, Components

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HYDROGEN R&D AND MANUFACTURE

Industrial R&D Projects

Hydrogen R&D Alliance main focus

  • H2 generation at high temperature. High productivity from renewable energy and through usage of residual heat.
  • Generation of H2 and bio-methane from biogenic sources: waste to power.
  • Generation of biofuels from H2 and CO2 , and uses of H2 in the industrial and domestic sectors using fuel cells.
  • Uses of H2 in the industrial sector as a chemical agent and to reduce CO2 emissions.
  • Technical-economic studies and market launch of utility models.

Other emergent manufacturing in the hydrogen value chain:

Electrodes-stacks, hydrogen boilers, hydrogen detections sensors, hydrogen storage systems,…

NON-LOCALIZED:

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MOBILITY I 15   projects

H2 GENERATION

INDUSTRY I 19 projects

73 PROJECTS

3.090 M€* 

774.000 t CO2/y 

INVESTMENT

CO2 REDUCTION

2.950 direct and 6.450 indirect

EMPLOYMENT ESTIMATE

CO2

CO2

2.000 M€* 

743.000

t CO2/y

6.600

employment

CO2

860 M€ 

31.000

t CO2/y

1.400 

employment

H2

262 vehicles

48 HRS

54.400 t H2 yearly consumption

RENEWABLE

1.500 MW 

ELECTROLYSIS

600 MW 

H2

H2 PRODUCTION

110.000 t H2/y 

25 km infrastructures

GENERAL FIGURES - evolving

*Including some renewable energy plants investments

Industrial R&D I  28  projects

Cross-cutting: Public understanding, Training, Business support, R&D Centre 11 projects

230 M€ 

1.400 employment

PRODUCTION

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7 projects

TRANSPORT AND DISTRIBUTION

4 projects

USES

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11 projects

(TBD)

VALUE CHAIN

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6 projects

15 M€ 

+Additional PPA

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Albert Ballbé i Ortí

Coordinator General Directorate of Industry - ACCIÓ

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(+34) 667 129 207

aballbe@gencat.cat

THANK YOU, GRÀCIES.

Jordi Cartanyà

Coordinator H2ValleyCAT

https://www.h2valley.cat/

(+34) 629 872 618

aballbe@gencat.cat

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