The third vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, advanced this Friday that the Government will launch a new call for aid to promote innovative hydrogen projects with 150 million euros that, “even though they are eligible and well evaluated” in previous programs , have not been awarded any financial incentive so far.

This was announced at the Encuentro Energía 2023 forum organized by the newspaper Expansión, where he stressed that in “the next few days” some of the proposals for hydrogen projects that aspire to channel a total of 300 million euros will be resolved, reports Servimedia. The Government will thus distribute 150 million in pioneering projects within the value chain of this energy source, 100 million among large electrolyzers, 38 million to finance prototypes of hydrogen-powered vehicles and 12 million in manufacturing and testing facilities.

For Ribera, these calls have been a “success” because a demand has been registered that has exceeded 800 million euros. Given this enormous interest, as well as the number of viable projects, his ministry has chosen to launch a new program of an additional 150 million euros in “the next few weeks.”

These new grants will be limited to those projects that, “being eligible and being well evaluated in previous calls, have been left out of the budgets” due to “the maturity of many of the projects presented”, for which reason it was dropped that the Executive will focus in this new tender on proposals with more embryonic phases.

All these aids are part of the Strategic Project for the Recovery and Economic Transformation of Renewable Energies, Renewable Hydrogen and Storage (Perte ERHA), which has public financing of 6,900 million euros and plans to mobilize up to 16,300 million euros. According to Ribera, the Government has already executed 3,483 million, “more than 50%” of the initial objective.

It should be remembered that the Transformation, Recovery and Resilience Plan includes a strategy called the Renewable Hydrogen Roadmap and its sectoral integration and that it has an initial endowment of 1,555 million euros. Its objective is to promote hydrogen “driving axes” such as value chains, clusters and the development of “sectoral integration” or “community interest” projects.

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