Naturgy and Enagás have developed a project to produce green hydrogen from a 250 MW floating offshore wind farm and a 100 MW onshore wind farm in Asturias. The project is listed as a candidate for a project of common European interest (IPCEI) and allows the generation of this green hydrogen taking advantage of native energy resources.
The project includes the development of an electrolysis and renewable energy plant, for which the construction of both an onshore wind plant and an offshore wind plant on the Asturian coast is proposed. The latter will be built with floating technology developed by the UTE formed by Navantia and the Avilesina company Windar.
This project will be able to generate more than 1,500 jobs in total in the construction and operation phases and, thanks to the estimated renewable electricity production, an initial emission savings of more than 200,000 tons of CO2 per year is expected.
The first deployment of the technology will be carried out on a scale at a demonstration level, with a power of 50 MW of offshore wind energy and 100 MW of on-shore wind energy, an “off-shore” electrolyzer of 5 MW and another “on -shore ”of 100 MW. In a second phase, the project could be expanded to 250 MW of offshore wind, with an additional 100 MW onshore electrolyzer.
The project will allow them to gain experience in the large-scale integration of electrolysis and renewable energy, both “on-shore” and “off-shore”, as well as advance in the path of reducing the production costs of green hydrogen, they explained The promoters.