The project to build a green hydrogen pipeline between Barcelona and Marseille will extend to Germany. As announced this Sunday by the Spanish and French governments, Germany joins the H2MeD project together with France and Portugal and, in this way, also reinforces the European commitment to “reinforce energy security” y advance in the transition towards “climate neutrality”.
The announcement, released this Sunday, further strengthens the H2MeD project. Its promoters estimate that this platform will be operational in 2030 and is expected to be able to transport from Spain 2 million tons of green hydrogen per year, which will represent 10% of the total consumed by the EU. In 2050 it is estimated that 20% of all energy in Europe will be renewable hydrogen.
strategic partner
“We have decided to expand the H2Med project which, thanks to European financing, unites Portugal, Spain and France with Germany, which will be a partner of this green infrastructure strategy“, the French president declared this Sunday during a joint press conference with the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the reconciliation treaty between Paris and Berlin.
The construction of this gas pipeline, as explained by Pedro Sánchez, allows Spain “to be at the head of the race for the energy transitionleading the development of renewable energies, also with the vocation of being a benchmark in hydrogen”.
The Vice President of the Government and Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, has also highlighted that the use of renewable hydrogen It can also be a source of “innovation, job creation and the industrial value chain in an economy like Spain’s, in southern Europe, where there is much to contribute to the rest of Europe”.