“Running to Electrolyzers” is limiting Portuguese advances in hydrogen projects. European market does not respond to demand.
In July 2024, the PRR (Recovery and Resilience Plan), European Fund, assured Portugal another 70 million euros for hydrogen -related projects, with a limit of 15 million euros for each project. So I reported the.
Portugal had already received, by 2021, a warning from the European Union worth 102 million euros and, by 2023, another of 83 million euros.
But, half a year later, the projects are having difficulty moving on, as reported, and the main fault is in the “race to electrolyzers“, An essential equipment for the production of this type of gas.
The Minister of Environment and Energy in Parliament, Maria da Graça CarvalhoHe said on Wednesday that “there is a race for the purchase of electrolyzers” in the European and worldwide market that is making it difficult to execute PRR in this field.
According to the minister, the high demand from the electrolyzers is making it difficult to get them. This equipment is a device that serves to break the molecules of water in oxygen and hydrogen atoms.
“No Electrolyzers are available for non -market delivery. What is happening in Portugal is happening in the rest of Europe. So there are difficulties here to perform, ”says Maria da Graça Carvalho.
The observer mentions investments in renewable gases and green hydrogen in the amount of 255 million euros that are at risk because of the lack of these devices in the European market.
“Prosecutors are telling us that there is a great difficulty in executing all these projects,” says the minister, also cited by.
There are projects worth 1,700 million euros whose management is up to the environmental fund. They should now move on to the agency’s power for the climate.
Marcel Rebelo de Sousa has also regretted the situation: “We hope that the execution rate is significantly increasing during the current year.”
