The plant was inaugurated by Teresa Ribera, the third vice president of the Spanish Government and Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge. Start-up tests began in December 2021, generating the first renewable hydrogen molecules and thus positioning itself as the first industrial-scale green hydrogen generation project in Spain. The project is part of the European Green Hysland initiative, the first renewable hydrogen initiative from a Mediterranean country to receive European funding.
The Green Hysland project, coordinated by Enagás, supports the deployment of the infrastructures required to build a renewable hydrogen ecosystem on Mallorca's island and helps achieve the environmental goals set by the Balearic Government in the islands. The European Union has committed €10 million to implement the Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking.
"This pioneering project inaugurates a technological development that will be very relevant in the coming years, to replace gas of fossil origin with renewable gases, such as biogas, biomethane, and hydrogen obtained with renewable energies. Thanks to these advances, which we are promoting with the PERTE ERHA, we will reduce our dependence on hydrocarbon imports, we will offer a solution for the decarbonisation of sectors that are difficult to electrify, such as industry or heavy transport, and we will create new companies and new jobs in quality. Now, more than ever, we must activate all the springs to gain energy sovereignty, and renewable energies are going to play a decisive role. And among them, hydrogen constitutes a strategic bet for the country", said Teresa Ribera.
The industrial production of renewable hydrogen at the plant will be carried out gradually as the infrastructures and equipment for its consumption are available within the project subsidised by the European Union Green Hysland, of which Power to Green Hydrogen Mallorca is part.
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 tons per year. Part of the green hydrogen will be transported through the first hydroduct in Spain, which Redexis will build on the island, and can be injected into the natural gas distribution network the company has in Palma de Mallorca, thus contributing to the decarbonisation of island consumption. The administrative processing phase is currently being completed, and the company will be able to start construction in Q2 2022.
